Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Directed by Louis King
Written by Edmund T. Lowe, Jr.
1937/USA
Paramount Pictures
First viewing
[box] Bulldog Drummond: Tenny, what rhymes with married?
Tenny: Married, married? Harried, Sir!
Bulldog Drummond: No, no, no Tenny, harried doesn’t go with married.
Tenny: You speak with the voice of inexperience sir![/box]
Another in the series of Bulldog Drummond programmers starring John Barrymore, John Howard, Reginald Denny and E.E. Clive. Drummond’s plans to marry Phyllis are again foiled when she is kidnapped by a pair of foreigners seeking revenge. The kidnappers put Drummond and his pals through a series of riddles intended to culminate in their deaths. They warn that Phyllis will be immediately killed if Colonel Nielson (Barrymore) is brought in on the case. Nielson then relies on a couple of elaborate disguises to follow the action. Barrymore had more to do here than in Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge and he was entertaining. A fun way to kill an hour, if nothing much more than that.
John Barrymore still getting top billing. Look at the cover of the CD.
Haven’t seen this one but I imagine it mirrors the rest of this series and they are always fun for a rainy afternoon’s watching.
Poor John Howard, it was his one chance to shine! I like him in these. I thought he was pretty bad in Lost Horizon as Coleman’s brother.