| Ask a Policeman | |
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| Directed by | Marcel Varnel |
| Written by | Marriott Edgar Sidney Gilliat (story) Val Guest J. O. C. Orton |
| Produced by | Edward Black |
| Starring | Will Hay Graham Moffatt Moore Marriott Glennis Lorimer Peter Gawthorne Charles Oliver Herbert Lomas |
| Cinematography | Derick Williams |
| Edited by | R. E. Dearing |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £58,173[1] |
Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
The plot sees Will Hay playing a policeman at the Turnbotham Round police force. The force hasn't arrested anybody in the last ten years five weeks and four days so their Chief Constable arrives to decide whether to keep or disband the force. The characters fabricate crimes in order to look useful. They manufacture some fake smuggling, but then they encounter some real smugglers. The title comes from the popular music hall song "Ask a P'liceman".
- ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 481.