Ask a Policeman – 1939 | 83 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

In the sleepy village of Turnbottom no crime has occurred in over ten years, so the Police superiors threaten the local Police station with closure because they have made no arrests. To preserve the status quo, Sergeant Dudfoot (Hay) and his assistants (Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt) attempt to stage some bogus crimes, they arrest a motorist for speeding, knock him out, throw him in a cell and rifle his pockets – not realising that he is the Chief Constable (Peter Gawthorne) coming to investigate their station.

Next, they invent a smuggling racket to please their superiors, but then get involved with some real smugglers, complete with phantom hearse and headless driver. In the film’s climax (shot at Brooklands motor-racing track) the trio drive a London Transport bus into the smugglers’ lorry.