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Ask a Policeman

  • 1939
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 23min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,3/10
1067
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Ask a Policeman (1939)
AvventuraCommediaCrimineDetective maldestro

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe 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... Leggi tuttoThe 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.

  • Regia
    • Marcel Varnel
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Sidney Gilliat
    • Marriott Edgar
    • Val Guest
  • Star
    • Will Hay
    • Graham Moffatt
    • Moore Marriott
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,3/10
    1067
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Marriott Edgar
      • Val Guest
    • Star
      • Will Hay
      • Graham Moffatt
      • Moore Marriott
    • 28Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali14

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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
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Cyril Chamberlain
    • Radio Announcer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Richard Cooper
    • BBC commentator
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Noel Dainton
    • Revenue Officer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Desmond Llewelyn
    Desmond Llewelyn
    • Headless Coachman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Dave O'Toole
    • Witness
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Brian Worth
    Brian Worth
    • Broadcasting Engineer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Marcel Varnel
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Marriott Edgar
      • Val Guest
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    Recensioni degli utenti28

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    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.
    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!!!
    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
    heedarmy

    A comic gem

    Will Hay's best-known film is the classic "Oh, Mr Porter" but this one isn't far behind. Hay is cast in his favourite role ; a seedily incompetent authority figure who conceals his uncertainty behind bluster and bombast.

    This is one of those rare films where the plot is almost an intrusion ; who cares about a smuggling ring in rural England, when we can instead enjoy the antics of Hay and his cohorts, playing possibly the most inept police team in the history of law enforcement. Their attempts to set a speed trap, and then to justify their results to an irate motorist, may be the high spot of the film.
    10mark monroe

    Classic comedy from a comic genius

    What a comedy! This is a movie that had me laughing from beginning to end. Even after all these years the one line gags from Will Hay are superbly timed. The movie plot about smugglers is good but all three main characters make this film a real hoot as local village policemen. I have this on video and watch it regularly if I need a laughter pick-me-up! Classic line, they need to arrest someone to prove the village needs a local bobby, Moffatt suggests Guy Faulkes, to which Will Hay replies "he's not a criminal, he invented fireworks" brilliant!

    Please watch it, you'll love it.

    Altri elementi simili

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    7,4
    Oh, Mr. Porter!
    Good Morning, Boys!
    6,6
    Good Morning, Boys!
    Where's That Fire?
    7,1
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    The Ghost of St. Michael's
    6,7
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    Windbag the Sailor
    6,6
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    6,5
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    Smart Alec
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    6,3
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    Where There's a Will
    6,3
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    Terrore nella notte
    6,7
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    Il marchio
    7,2
    Il marchio

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    • Quiz
      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 . . . "
    • Blooper
      When the garage door opens 'spontaneously' the wire used to pull it open is visible.
    • Citazioni

      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.

    • Connessioni
      Referenced in James Bond: Licence to Kill - The Royal Premiere (1989)
    • Colonne sonore
      Polieceman's Holiday
      (uncredited)

      Music by Montague Ewing

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    • Data di uscita
      • aprile 1939 (Regno Unito)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Constables
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Islington Studios, Islington, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Studio, uncredited)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Gainsborough Pictures
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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