Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Fast paced adventure with gentleman adventurer Bulldog Drummond (Ray Milliand). Newly arrived back in Blighty (where everywhere is covered in thick fog all the time of course) he is soon drawn into a plot to defraud Phyllis (Heather Angel) out of her inheritance in a dark, somewhat sinister, country house.

Bulldog Drummond is soon drawn into a game of cat and mouse with the crooked Merridew (Norman Porter) and his associates who are involved in a counterfeiting operation. Drummond has help too of course including Algy (Reginald Denny) and Tenny (E.E. Clive) though Phyllis also proves a dab hand with a bottle...

It is light and pretty fast and furious, and undoubted fun. It maybe could do with a bit more grit, the film has plenty of violence but it played a bit light to allow it to be taken seriously. Overall though a good film but just wish that damned fog would have lifted!