Ask a Policeman
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United Kingdom · 1939
1h 23m
Director Marcel Varnel
Starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer
Genre Comedy
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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.
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