Ask a Policeman (1939)
1939 · Feature film · 83 min · dir. Marcel Varnel
- Comedy
Synopsis
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Marcel Varnel
- Writer
- Val Guest
- Composer
- Clive Richardson
- Cinematography
- Derick Williams
- Studio
- Gainsborough Pictures
- Released
- 1939-04-29
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Cast & crew
Marcel Varnel Director
Will Hay
Graham Moffatt
Moore Marriott- Glennis Lorimer
Peter Gawthorne
Charles Oliver
Herbert Lomas
Patrick Aherne
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · CLASSIC BRITISH COMEDY! · pj2020 · 2021-10-22
Classic British comedy! This is one of my all-time favourite movies. I have watched it countless times. PJCB.🎬
★★★★★ · Classic! · gwjfuzzypiggy · 2023-01-26
One of my all time favourite movies. This was filmed in the 1930s getting on for almost 90 years old now and still just as funny as the day it was filmed. Some of the gags just have you rolling up, subtle, silly and innocent humour.
