Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Name: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Director: Norman Lee
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1937
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Cast: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory, Claud Allister, Richard Bird

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Adventure
Action

1937
Norman Lee
78 mins
PG

Summary

Bulldog goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft. Action adventure, starring John Lodge and Dorothy Mackaill

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Fourteen actors played gentleman adventurer Captain Hugh Drummond between 1922-69, with this being John Lodge's sole outing. Based on the novel by HC McNeile under the name "Sapper", it sees Drummond and sidekick Algy Longworth (Claud Allister) on the trail of a gunrunning pacifist group who have kidnapped the inventor of a top-secret plane. Victor Jory and Hugh Miller make suitably hissable villains, while silent star Dorothy Mackail appears in her final film role and has some almost screwballishly amusing exchanges with Lodge. Director Norman Lee makes evocative use of locations including a Scottish castle, there's also a tense sequence in a laboratory and a lively punch-up before a fiendishly innovative finale.

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5.8/10

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Cast

rolenameHugh DrummondJohn LodgeDoris ThompsonDorothy MackaillGregoroffVictor JoryAlgy LongworthClaud AllisterCaldwellRichard Bird

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rolenameDirectorNorman Lee

Details

Released on

1937-07-05

Languages

English

Formats

Black and white