Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)

Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone.... See full summary »

Director:

Roy Del Ruth

Writers:

Nunnally Johnson, Henry Lehrman,

Stars:

Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith

Cast

Credited cast:
Ronald Colman	...	Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Loretta Young	...	Lola Field
C. Aubrey Smith	...	Capt. Reginald Neilsen / Colonel
Charles Butterworth	...	Algy Longworth / Mousey
Una Merkel	...	Gwen
Warner Oland	...	Prince Achmed
E.E. Clive	...	London Bobbie
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mischa Auer	...	Hassan
Douglas Gerrard	...	Parker, Drummond's Valet
Ethel Griffies	...	Mrs. Field
Halliwell Hobbes	...	Bobby
Arthur Hohl	...	Dr. Sothern
George Regas	...	Singh

Storyline

Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body - which disappears when he summons a bobby. Bodies keep disappearing as Drummond keeps summoning the authorities, particularly his long-suffering upstairs neighbor, Captain Nielsen; the ever faithful Algy also finds his wedding night disrupted by, among other things, some emergency code-breaking. And of course, there's a beautiful woman there's always a beautiful woman in this case, Gwen, who turns out to be the daughter of the dead man who started all this.

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Plot Keywords:

wedding | mansion | bulldog drummond | fog | secret code | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 August 1934 (USA)

Also Known As:

Le retour de Bulldog Drummond

Company Credits

Production Co:

20th Century Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

User Reviews

Disappearing Bodies, Appearing Story

You've seen this plot before: someone sees a body and then it disappears. Flustered unbelieving cops, Irish because of the era.

In this case, that same device is pulled three times on the cops, then in the finale is turned around and pulled twice on the bad guys.

Here we have a charming detective who takes enough nonchalant risks to get himself in trouble, and enough pluck to get himself out.

But we have some cool narrative devices that play with the detective genre, not yet quite fully formed, but formed enough to honk with. Our detective remarks that the mystery would be more interesting if a beautiful woman in distress appeared. In a few seconds this happens, with absolutely no reason. Its as if he just wrote it that way. She mentions that he is like someone out of a book. Later, he calls in a story to the bad guys and they believe it.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.