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Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
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Jun 6, 2022 · via TMDB
A bored WWI veteran "Capt. Drummond" (Ronald Colman) is recruited by damsel in distress Joan Bennett ("Phyllis Benton") to try to help free her wealthy uncle from a care home, where she believes he is being held against his will whilst they try to extort money from him. The dapper, sophisticate is soon on the case as they try to extricate the old gent from the clutches of "Irma Peterson" (Lilyan Tashman) and her henchmen. This is the first talkie for Colman, and it does look like it - the dialogue is stilted, the performances precisely staged and the story of this, principled, determined, upper-class gentleman is nothing if not predictable. That said, though, it's got certain charm to it - and Tashman is quite good as the baddie, too. Probably my favourite of these "Bulldog" films that got the star an Oscar nomination.
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Ronald Colman
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Claud Allister
Algy Longworth
Lawrence Grant
Dr. Lakington
Montagu Love
Peterson
Joan Bennett
Phyllis
Lilyan Tashman
Irma
Charles Sellon
Travers
Adolph Milar
Marcovitch
Tetsu Komai
Chong
Gertrude Short
Barmaid
Tom Ricketts
Colonel
William Cameron Menzies
Art Direction
William Cameron Menzies
Settings
Gregg Toland
Director of Photography
Viola Lawrence
Editor
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Hugo Riesenfeld
Music Director
Herman C. McNeile
Original Story
Herman C. McNeile
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
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