The Boys in Blue

The Boys in Blue (1982)

A really blue movie...

Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.

Date of release
1982-09-20
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy, Family
Director
Val Guest

Casting

Interesting facts

The Boys in Blue is a 1983 British comedy film directed and written by Val Guest and starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle and Roy Kinnear. It is loosely based on the 1939 Will Hay film Ask a Policeman, which Guest co–wrote. It was the final feature film that Guest directed.

Production

Val Guest was approached to make a film with the comedy team of Cannon and Ball. Guest went to see them perform live, and thought "they would be a good draw". Guest says the idea to remake Ask a Policeman came from Bobby Ball being a film buff. "We had a lot of fun making it," said Guest. "It was hard work to lead two newcomers. But we made it." In another interview, Guest claimed "I never wanted to make that" film and "my heart wasn't in it."

Filming started October 1982. "We've always wanted to be film stars," said Bobby Ball.

The film was shot primarily at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, but many other locations throughout the United Kingdom were used, such as Edlesborough, Eaton Bray, Weymouth, Wool, Lulworth Cove, St Albans, Borehamwood and Bushey Heath.

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