This Bernard Small production stars Tom Conway as Bulldog Drummond -- why not? He'd already played the Saint and the Falcon, and if he'd played Sexton Blake, it wouldn't surprise me -- in a movie based on one of Sapper's novels. An acquaintance comes to Conway, explaining he has two old lead soldiers, and someone who owned two others had been killed. Would he hold onto them and look into it? To complicate the plot, John Newland is playing Algy, and they decide to switch names for the term of this adventure.
It's a nicely complicated movie because everyone seems to be operating under a false identity. In fact, it's so complicated that I had no idea of what was going on until Conway playing Drummond playing Algy started his explanation of the very complicated mystery behind all the goings-on. Conway saunters through the role and is clearly amused by the deadly situation, like Roger Moore playing Bond.
It's directed by Frank MacDonald, one of those B specialists who could handle just about any subject, spent most of his career directing westerns, but actually had a nice talent for comedy. He wound up directing episodes of GET SMART.
It's a nicely complicated movie because everyone seems to be operating under a false identity. In fact, it's so complicated that I had no idea of what was going on until Conway playing Drummond playing Algy started his explanation of the very complicated mystery behind all the goings-on. Conway saunters through the role and is clearly amused by the deadly situation, like Roger Moore playing Bond.
It's directed by Frank MacDonald, one of those B specialists who could handle just about any subject, spent most of his career directing westerns, but actually had a nice talent for comedy. He wound up directing episodes of GET SMART.