Ask a Policeman

Year: 1939

Runtime: 83 mins

Language: English

Director: Marcel Varnel

Comedy

Police‑Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, launch a comically staged crime‑wave to protect their positions, only to have their contrived scheme collapse when a genuine criminal enterprise emerges, dragging the trio into a real investigation.

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