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Ask a Policeman (1939)
PRODUCTION SCRIPT DIRECTION PHOTOGRAPHY EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION MUSIC SOUND DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION MISCELLANEOUS CAST Turnbottom Round may be proud of its record as a village with no crime, but it doesn't do much for the pride of the local constabulary - especially when it's realised that the only reason that the village is crime free is because Sergeant Dudfoot and his two constables, Jerry and Harbottle are so inept that they fail to notice what's going onaround them. They have a lot to prove when they go up against a smuggling ring - and a frightening headless horseman... Will Hay had flirted with the fake ghost comedy in the classic Oh Mr Porter! (1937), in which there was much talk of the spectral One-Eyed Jack, though it wasn't until Ask a Policeman that the much loved comic entered that strange and peculiarly British world opened up by the success of Arnold Riley's play The Ghost Train (1931) - the horror film that isn't. This is great fun, as most Will Hay films are, though it almost goes without saying that there turn out to be no real ghosts at all. USA UK TIMELINE 1980 1985 1988 1990 1992 1994 REMAKE MAGAZINES Film Weekly vol.21 no.554 (27 May 1939)
p.31 (UK) Kinematograph Weekly no.1670 (20 April
1939) p.25 (UK) Kinematograph Weekly no.1847 (10 September
1942) (UK) Monthly Film Bulletin vol.6 no.65 (May
1939) p.91 (UK) Motion Picture Herald vol.135 no.4 (29
April 1939) p.54 (USA) Today's Cinema vol.52 no.4195 (19 April
1939) p.18 Today's Cinema vol.59 no.4772 (8 September
1942) p.9 (UK) BOOKS The British Film Catalogue 1895-1985:
A Reference Guide by Denis Gifford (London: David & Charles
(1986) ISBN: 0715388355) police, headless horsemen, smugglers, fake ghosts
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