The Boys in Blue

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The Boys in Blue is a 1982 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle and Roy Kinnear.^[1] It is loosely based on the 1938 Will Hay film Ask a Policeman. Some policeman who have failed to make any arrests are threatened with dismissal, and begin to invent crime to justify their existence.

[edit] Cast

Tommy Cannon - Sergeant Cannon
Bobby Ball - PC Ball
Suzanne Danielle - Kim
Roy Kinnear - Lloyd
Eric Sykes - Chief Constable
Jack Douglas- Chief Superintendent
Edward Judd - Hilling
Jon Pertwee - Coastguard
Arthur English - Man on Motorbike

[edit] References

^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/154404

[edit] External links

The Boys in Blue at the Internet Movie Database

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Active	Aardman Animations BBC Films British Lion Films Ealing Studios Elstree Studios Eon Productions Film4 Productions Goldcrest Films Hammer Film Productions HandMade Films London Films Palace Pictures The Pinewood Studios Group (Pinewood Studios Shepperton Studios) S4C Films Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden Wimbledon Studios Working Title Films

Former	Amicus Productions Associated British Picture Corporation Bryanston Films Denham Film Studios Gainsborough Pictures Ideal Rank Organisation Tigon British Film Productions Warwick Films

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v t e Films directed by Val Guest

1940s	Miss London Ltd. (1943) Bees in Paradise (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) Just William's Luck (1947) William Comes to Town (1948) Murder at the Windmill (1949)

1950s	Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950) Mister Drake's Duck (1951) Penny Princess (1952) The Runaway Bus (1954) Life with The Lyons (1954) Dance, Little Lady (1954) The Body Said No! (1954) The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) The Lyons in Paris (1955) Break in the Circle (1955) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) They Can't Hang Me (1955) It's a Wonderful World (1956) Carry on Admiral (1955) The Weapon (1957) Quatermass 2 (1957) The Abominable Snowman (1957) The Camp on Blood Island (1958) Up the Creek (1958) Further Up the Creek (1958) Yesterday's Enemy (1959) Expresso Bongo (1959)

1960s	Life Is a Circus (1960) Hell Is a City (1960) The Full Treatment (1960) The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) Jigsaw (1962) 80,000 Suspects (1963) The Beauty Jungle (1964) Where the Spies Are (1965) Casino Royale (1966) Assignment K (1968)

1970s	The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) The Boys in Blue (1982)

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