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Ask a Policeman

  • 1939
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 23min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
7.3/10
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Ask a Policeman (1939)
AventuraComediaCrimenDetective torpe

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThe mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themse... Leer todoThe mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.

  • Dirección
    • Marcel Varnel
  • Guionistas
    • Sidney Gilliat
    • Marriott Edgar
    • Val Guest
  • Elenco
    • Will Hay
    • Graham Moffatt
    • Moore Marriott
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.3/10
    1.1 k
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Guionistas
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Marriott Edgar
      • Val Guest
    • Elenco
      • Will Hay
      • Graham Moffatt
      • Moore Marriott
    • 28Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 4Opiniones de los críticos
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    Will Hay
    Will Hay
    • Sergt. Dudfoot
    Graham Moffatt
    • Albert
    Moore Marriott
    Moore Marriott
    • Harbottle
    Glennis Lorimer
    • Emily
    Peter Gawthorne
    • Chief Constable
    Charles Oliver
    Charles Oliver
    • The Squire
    Herbert Lomas
    Herbert Lomas
    • Coastguard
    Patrick Aherne
    • Motorist
    • (sin créditos)
    Cyril Chamberlain
    • Radio Announcer
    • (sin créditos)
    Richard Cooper
    • BBC commentator
    • (sin créditos)
    Noel Dainton
    • Revenue Officer
    • (sin créditos)
    Desmond Llewelyn
    Desmond Llewelyn
    • Headless Coachman
    • (sin créditos)
    Dave O'Toole
    • Witness
    • (sin créditos)
    Brian Worth
    Brian Worth
    • Broadcasting Engineer
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Guionistas
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Marriott Edgar
      • Val Guest
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    10ben-trovato

    can't fault

    Because "Oh Mr Porter" was filmed two years earlier, it gets more favour from the critics, but although this film was a reworking of that plot, it stands up equally, if not better. -

    There are so many great scenes. My favourite being when Harbottle (Marriott already playing a much older man) takes them to see his father, played by himself. Just shows what a superb actor he was. - The print quality seems a little worse for wear in places. Probably due to over use!
    10hitchcockthelegend

    When the tide runs low in the smugglers cove...

    Turnbotham Round has no crime, something that becomes common knowledge after a radio programme is broadcast from the village. Upon hearing this broadcast, the top brass at Scotland Yard send word that if there is no crime there, then why employ policemen to police the village? Realising that their good lives are about to come to an end, inept coppers Dudfoot (Will Hay), Brown (Graham Moffatt) and Harbottle (Moore Marriott) set about making some arrests. What they hadn't bargained for was the uncovering of a smuggling ring and the unleashing of the phantom headless horseman.

    Much like Will Hay's Good Morning, Boys (1937) followed a similar formula to that of one of his earlier pictures, Boys Will Be Boys (1935), so it be with Ask A Policeman in that it has close links with critics fave, Oh Mr. Porter! (1937). However, that in no way is a bad thing because Ask A Policeman is utter joy from start to finish. In fact I would go so far as to say that the writing is actually better here. With a writing team consisting of Marriott Edgar, Sidney Gilliat, Val Guest and J.O.C. Orton, it's no wonder that the gags come thick and fast and still hold up over 80 years later.

    Marcel Varnel once again directs Hay and his blunderingly magnificent sidekicks, Marriott and Moffatt, and each of them are on terrific form as they within a heartbeat lurch from incredulity to stupidity. They are helped by the story and its delightful supernatural set ups. These coppers have been having it easy for so long they have forgotten just what it takes to be a copper. More content with bending the rules for an easy life (note some nice satire in the writing), these guys are suddenly faced with the supernatural and actual real crime. Something they are delightfully unable to properly cope with. From trying to set up a roadside speeding arrest to an attempt at solving an ancient smugglers rhyme, Ask A Policeman, courtesy of an across the board team on fire, is to my mind one of the greatest British films of all time. So pay attention to the jokes and admire the visual comedy that goes with them, and then hopefully you too will appreciate just what genius Hay and his cohorts brought to British comedy between 1936 to 1940. 10/10
    homogulater

    They don't get funnier than this!!!

    Ask a policeman, to my mind, is one of the greatest comedies ever made!!! Sure you might not see it on everybody's top 10 comedy lists but that's probably because they have never heard, nor seen the film before!!! Every second has a comic gem, not one minute goes by without an erruption of laughter from it's audience. It truly is one of the most underrated comedies ever made. I suggest you all go seek it out and find this out for yourselves!!!
    8Spondonman

    Great replay

    Ask a policeman has always suffered from close comparison with Oh, Mr. Porter! and is therefore (unfairly) usually considered an inferior film. On its own it would stand up very well, with plenty of gags to the minute and set-pieces all working throughout, but because the plot was a retread from the previous classic it tends to be forgotten. And it's a pretty direct lifting at times, too! However, the gags do work and are different to reflect the slightly different situations the characters find themselves in and this alone can sustain the interest.

    Instead of being railway employees at a lonely railway station up against smugglers this time they're police officers at a lonely police station up against smugglers.

    In other words it's a beautiful re-run of OMP, but after watching it you can still think of just how inventive Val Guest, Marriott Edgar and Sidney Gilliat were in the screenplay, just how versatile Hay, Moffat and Marriott were in their portrayals of the Superior, Albert and Jerry and what a marvellous bookend this is for Oh, Mr.Porter!
    6bkoganbing

    A policeman's lot is not a happy one

    The small English village of Turnbottom Round prides itself on being the safest place in the United Kingdom. All due to the crack law enforcement team of Will Hay and his two second bananas Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. In fact they're so good they haven't made any arrests in ten years, didn't even pick up a drunk for a night to sleep it off. They even have a BBC broadcast to celebrate this town and its peaceful nature and peaceful cops.

    But someone decides this little sinecure has gone on long enough. What to do, but create some crime. But these three muck up traffic arrests.

    Their salvation of sorts might be a suspected smuggling ring which has taken advantage of the lax police work and operates with impunity. Not that Turnbottom Round PD does anything really but the bad guys are rounded up in spite of Hay and his staff.

    Some really funny sequences including the BBC broadcast where no one can quite get the use of the microphone right, the search for the smugglers, the attempts at enforcing traffic laws and how that works out and the final chase scene where Turnbottom Round's finest commandeer a bus for their pursuit.

    This nicely done Will Hay comedy could have been a model for Police Academy movies.

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    • Trivia
      The first section of the film contains an in-joke about Will Hay's real-life career. In 1937 his radio show was faded out to make time for a broadcast by the Prime Minister. Hay was furious and vowed never to broadcast again. A popular outcry led by the Daily Express forced the BBC to apologize before Hay would go back on the air. When Dudfoot's broadcast ends the same way, he says, "The BBC always fade out the best items", and when threatened with dismissal he says, "If only we could get the Daily Express behind us . . . "
    • Errores
      When the garage door opens 'spontaneously' the wire used to pull it open is visible.
    • Citas

      Constable Jeremiah 'Jerry' Harbottle: [as Harbottle senior] When the tide runs low in the smugglers' cove, / And the 'eadless 'orseman rides above, / He drives along with his wild hallo, / And that's the time when the smugglers go in their little boats to the schooner and bring back the kegs of brandy and rum and put them all in the Devil's Cove below.

    • Conexiones
      Referenced in James Bond: Licence to Kill - The Royal Premiere (1989)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Polieceman's Holiday
      (uncredited)

      Music by Montague Ewing

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      • abril de 1939 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Constables
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Islington Studios, Islington, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Studio, uncredited)
    • Productora
      • Gainsborough Pictures
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      • Black and White
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