BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK (1934) Ronald Coleman & Loretta Young | Comedy, Mystery | B&W

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young. It was a loose sequel to the 1929 film Bulldog Drummond which had also starred Colman.

SYNOPSIS
Bulldog Drummond's partner Algy is set to wed. Bulldog attends the wedding but on his return home in the deep foggy night he wanders into an old mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a telephone. To his shock he finds the corpse of an old man. Bodies keep disappearing as Drummond attempts to contact the authorities, including neighbour Captain Nielsen. But a woman is on the case, Lola, who is the daughter of the dead man.

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 the case), Lola, who turns out to be the daughter of the dead man who started all this.

CAST & CREW
Ronald Colman as Capt. Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond
Loretta Young as Lola Field
C. Aubrey Smith as Captain Reginald Neilsen
Charles Butterworth as Algy
Una Merkel as Gwen
Warner Oland as Prince Achmed
E.E. Clive as London Bobbie
Mischa Auer as Hassan
Douglas Gerrard as Parker
Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Field
Halliwell Hobbes as Bobby
Arthur Hohl as Dr. Sothern
George Regas as Singh
Billy Bevan as Man In Hotel
H. N. Clugston as Mr. Field
Halliwell Hobbes as Second Bobbie

Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Written by Nunnally Johnson, Henry Lehrman
Based on Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1933 novel by Herman C. McNeile
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Allen McNeil
Music by Alfred Newman
Production company Twentieth Century Pictures
Distributed by United Artists
Release date August 15, 1934
Running time 83 mins
Country United States
Language English

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