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- Film adaptations of Bulldog Drummond stories, plays, and novels spanned five decades and involved several studios. The detective made his movie debut in 1922 in a British production of McNeile's 1920 novel, but it was the 1929 film, starring Ronald Colman, that created the template for the cinematic version of the character.
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The 1929 film was the first Bulldog Drummond movie with sound, and was also Ronald Colman's first talkie. A series of Drummond movies followed, beginning with Temple Tower made in the UK in 1930; see the main article on Bulldog Drummond for a complete list.
In 1933 Alfred Hitchcock was set to direct a Bulldog Drummond film [104] with a screenplay by Charles Bennett entitled Bulldog Drummond's Baby. The rights to the character of Drummond were then held by British International Pictures , who would not sell the rights to use the characters for Bennett's screenplay.
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldiers were part of a set of thirteen which formed the key to a hidden vault of treasure.
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Bulldog Drummond: Directed by F. Richard Jones. With Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love. A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- F. Richard Jones
- 1929-05-02
The 1929 film was the first Bulldog Drummond movie with sound, and was also Ronald Colman's first talkie. A series of Drummond movies followed, beginning with Temple Tower made in the UK in 1930; see the main article on Bulldog Drummond for a complete list.
Mar 26, 2015 · This was the first Drummond film and the part was to be played by several other actors including Colman again. But this film seems to have set the format out. Drummond, a veteran of the World War, was your typical upper middle class English gent who's just plain bored by a rather useless life.
The 1929 film was the first Bulldog Drummond movie with sound, and was also Ronald Colman's first talkie. A series of Drummond movies followed, beginning with Temple Tower made in the UK in 1930; see the main article on Bulldog Drummond for a complete list.
