Bulldog Drummond in Africa

1938
U
58m

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Heather Angel and John Howard in Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler set out to rescue a high-ranking Scotland Yard officer who has been kidnapped.Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler set out to rescue a high-ranking Scotland Yard officer who has been kidnapped.Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler set out to rescue a high-ranking Scotland Yard officer who has been kidnapped.

Director
- Louis King
Writers
- Garnett Weston
- Herman C. McNeile
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6.0/10

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Director
- Louis King
Writers
- Garnett Weston
- Herman C. McNeile
Stars

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John Howard

Captain Hugh C. 'Bulldog' Drummond

Heather Angel

Phyllis Clavering

H.B. Warner

Colonel J.A. Nielson

J. Carrol Naish

Richard Lane

Reginald Denny

Algy Longworth

E.E. Clive

Tenny

Anthony Quinn

Deone Fordine

Michael Brooke

Baron Nevsky

Matthew Boulton

Major Gray

Neil Fitzgerald

McTurk

Rafael Alcayde

Policeman Outside Hotel Room
(uncredited)

Fortunio Bonanova

African Police Corporal
(uncredited)

Leonard Carey

Phillips
(uncredited)

Jean De Briac

Walter
(uncredited)

Forrester Harvey

Constable Jenkins
(uncredited)

Rudolf Myzet

Plane Saboteur
(uncredited)

Paul Porcasi

Hotel Manager
(uncredited)

Gerald Rogers

Tailor
(uncredited)

Director
- Louis King
Writers
- Garnett Weston
- Herman C. McNeile
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User reviews19

Featured review

7/10

Morocco to be accurate

The opening ruse to keep Drummond & Co. from finding Adventure and to find Marriage wears thin after 10 minutes or so, but this potboiler soon picks up speed - the plane taking them all to Morocco was slower.

J. Carroll Naish as the baddie kidnaps the goodie from Scotland Yard, H. B. Warner for his state secrets, flies him out of the country with Drummond in pursuit. I won't give the game away as to whether he, Algy, Tenney and Phyllis succeed in releasing Warner, properly chastise the baddies (including the cub Anthony Quinn) and fly back home into a happy ending - you'll have to bite your nails and watch it!

At times utterly predictable, even with a rather savage lion in some shots - what did they have to do to make it so mad - but as usual a very watchable entry in this series.

Spondonman
Jun 19, 2004
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Trivia
This is one of 8 Bulldog Drummond adventures produced by Paramount in the late 1930s, and sold to Congress Films (II) in mid-1954 for re-release; Congress redesigned the opening and closing credits, in order to eliminate all evidence of Paramount's ownership, going so far as to even alter the copyright claimant statements on the title cards; Congress, in turn, sold the films to Governor Films for television syndication. Along the way, Paramount, having disowned the films, never bothered to renew the copyrights, and they fell into public domain, with the result that inferior VHS and DVD copies have been in distribution for many years, from a variety of sub-distributors who specialize in public domain material.