ASK A POLICEMAN is a dated but likeable star vehicle for the once-popular British comedy actor Will Hay. Here, he plays a village policeman who has to engage with a smuggling crimewave with the aid of his two goonish companions. It's a light and silly little affair, very domestic in feel, that nonetheless provides a neat counterpart to the crude, cynical comedy of modern cinema. It's the first Will Hay film I've seen and I thoroughly enjoyed it; the situations are suitably bizarre, the antics fitfully amusing, the one-liners genuinely funny. And it's oh-so-British in feel.
Review of Ask a Policeman
