Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Runtime: 67 minutes
Directed by: James P. Hogan
Starring: Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Reginald Denny, Porter Hall
From: Paramount
This is a brief review from me as there isn't too much to say, aside from this being the only time Milland played this character. The Letterboxd review is below:
I know this is a rather random obscure movie to watch but it was just on TCM and while I have known of the Bulldog Drummond character (a war hero turned detective, the subject of a series of novels from a chap calling himself Sapper and then turned into a number of movies) for awhile now I had never read any of the books nor seen any of the films until now. Besides, the movie stars some familiar faces to me in Ray Milland and Reginald Denny... the actor, not the truck driver who got hit in the head with a brick during the 1992 L.A. Riots.
The story is a standard one of Drummond returning to England and he stumbles upon a case where he has to protect an heiress and yes, they do get captured and have to escape. Aside from the hammy acting throughout this is decidedly average in every way. Not great and not bad... just average. Much of the story is either in an old mansion or the sort of foggy marsh that me (and Hollywood, for that matter) imagines the United Kingdom to be full of. That's really all there is to say about this standard low budget programmer.
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