Easy Street (film) Street as his beat. Upon entering the street he finds a bully roughing up the locals and pilfering their money. The Little Tramp gets on the wrong side of the bully and following a chase the two eventually come to blows culminating in the Little Tramp inventively using a gas lamp to render the bully unconscious. The bully is taken away by the police but manages to escape from the station and returns to Easy Street. After a long chase the Little Tramp manages to knock the bully unconscious by dropping a heavy stove on his head from an upstairs
Ask a Policeman not a remake, 2007's "Hot Fuzz" borrowed the plot device of policemen uncovering organised crime in a sleepy area of rural England. The makers of the Indian film "Naalu Policeum Nalla Irundha Oorum" (2015) have acknowledged "Ask a Policeman" as an influence on it. Ask a Policeman Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. The title comes from the popular music hall song "Ask a Policeman". The Turnbotham Round police force are threatened with dismissal by their Chief Constable and decide to manufacture some smugglers