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English Countryside | Bumbling Cops
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The first section of the film contains an in-joke about Will Hay's real-life career. In 1937 his radio show was "faded out" to make time for a broadcast by the Prime Minister. Hay was furious and vowed never to broadcast again. A popular outcry led by the Daily Express forced the BBC to apologize before Hay would go back on the air. When Dudfoot's broadcast ends the same way, he says, "The BBC always fade out the best items", and when threatened with dismissal he says, "If only we could get the Daily Express behind us . . . "
Future Bond legend, Desmond Llewelyn, has a bit part as a policeman and is also the headless horseman.
The penultimate comedy featuring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. Hay had made it clear by the time this film was made, that he wished to terminate the comedy partnership.
The only time Moore Marriott played two characters, when acting opposite Will Hay.
The film was loosely remade with Cannon and Ball as The Boys in Blue (1983).
"Constable Jeremiah 'Jerry' Harbottle: [as Harbottle senior] When the tide runs low in the smugglers' cove, / And the 'eadless 'orseman rides above, / He drives along with his wild hallo, / And that's the time when the smugglers go in their little boats to the schooner and bring back the kegs of brandy and rum and put them all in the Devil's Cove below."
"Constable Jeremiah 'Jerry' Harbottle: [Dudfoot has been embezzling the salary of a non-existent constable] If I hadn't come in you wouldn't have had any Harbottle to show. Constable Albert Brown: That's right, and you wouldn't be able to stick for half his wages. Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot: That's commission!"
