# Ask a Policeman

Title: Ask a Policeman Summary: 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---and then find themselves involved in the real thing. Directed by: Marcel Varnel Actors: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures Release Date: 29 August 1939 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1 Turnbottom Round prides itself as the village without crime; there has not been an arrest recorded by the local police for years. Unfortunately, this is more to do with the inability of Sgt Dudfoot and his constables Jerry and Harbottle to so much as recognise a crime. With their jobs on the line, the trio attempt to stage a crime of their own, only to inadvertently uncover a smuggling ring and a headless horseman...

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1939
- By: Gainsborough Pictures
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Adventure
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/aap44779882)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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