GamerTab That was an excellent one.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

GManfred A good addition to the Bulldog Drummond canon. It begins in a very mysterious vein, which leads you to believe you are in for a treat, as Drummond follows a woman to a house that appears empty, save for a dead body on the living room couch. He races outside and brings a bobby back to the scene, only to find several people inside and no corpse. Even though the film quickly descends into farce, it is fast-paced and holds the interest right to the end as Drummond (and us) try to decipher the mystery. Warner Oland is sinister, Charles Butterworth is hysterical as Algy, Loretta Young is lovely and C. Aubrey Smith is flustered as the Chief Inspector. Just my observation; characters in 30's movies seem to fall in love instantaneously, and at the end Colman and Loretta Young announce their wedding after the briefest of encounters. Nevertheless, 'Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" is very entertaining and well worth you time at 83 minutes.7/10 - Website no longer prints my star rating.

binapiraeus This is certainly an absolute highlight of the long and prolific 'career' of amateur sleuth Bulldog Drummond. A very clever story, not quite unlike Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes": a young woman knows someone is in great danger, but a very influential person has instructed everybody around her to tell her lies until she almost thinks she's crazy - and while in "The Lady Vanishes" it was Michael Redgrave, here of course it's charming, nonchalant and fearless Ronald Colman alias Bulldog Drummond who rushes to her aid - happy that he's stumbled upon a mysterious case again at last, while he was just about to 'retire' to Essex...But this time the madness goes even further: while Drummond thinks he's got the girl in a safe place, she disappears - and when he manages to 'kidnap' her aunt in turn from the baddies and take her to his home, she disappears too - and now his old friend from Scotland Yard, Colonel Nielsen, thinks Bulldog's mad! But of course he's not...So there's plenty of entertainment and examples of British humor here amidst the contrasting creepy, foggy night streets of London with mean faces lurking in the dark: Bulldog spoils his best friend Algie's wedding night asking to assist him in this strange case, and he doesn't let poor old Colonel Neilsen get a minute of sleep all night with his constant disturbances, who in turn threats he'll hang him someday...In short, a real feast for every fan of classic murder mysteries with a good dose of humor - laughs as well as shudders guaranteed!

davidjanuzbrown I just saw this film today on Youtube, and it is another Colman winner. His version of Drummond is very much like William Powell's Nick Charles, except there is a lot more action to it. Spoilers ahead: One major plus is seeing Warner Oland as Prince Achemad, who is trying to smuggle furs into London, despite the fact they are infested with cholera. What I like about the film is the way that Drummond always finds a way to come out on top and does it with class and sophistication, which includes catching the villain (With a note hidden in a cigarette case, warning about the cholera), and marrying the girl Lola Fields (Loretta Young). Anyone who likes Colman and or detective stories should make sure they catch this film. I consider myself lucky that I caught it, because although it is listed as being available on DVD, I have never seen it anywhere except Youtube.

robert-temple-1 This is the fifth Bulldog Drummond film, and the second and final one starring Ronald Colman as Drummond. It has the same title as the eighteenth Drummond film, released in 1947 and starring Ron Randell, but the stories have nothing whatever in common despite the common title of the two films. This film was a 20th Century Fox release, and has correspondingly higher production values than normal, being produced by Daryll Zanuck and with a script by Hollywood regular Nunnally Johnson. Colman is as charming and debonair as ever, and carries this off wittily and with energy and zest. The female interest is the young and beautiful Loretta Young, who is not just a limp fainting wisp of a thing but someone with character and verve. Drummond's valet is here called Parker, not Tenny, and E. E. Clive who was later to play the valet called Tenny so many times in Drummond films, here appears as a London bobby. He and fellow-bobby Halliwell Hobbes perform some hilarious routines together, and Clive is truly magnificent as a clowning idiot. Algy Longworth in this film is played by Charles Butterworth, as a forgetful and charming semi-idiot. He is the antithesis of Colman's chum Algy Longworth in 1929, when Claude Allister played Algy as an effete upper-class twit with a monocle and a whinnying voice. Butterworth blinks engagingly, forgets things constantly, and occasionally remembers things urgently. Having been in the signals corps in the War, he is called upon to break a code of a message, which he does satisfactorily, though he has to swallow it whilst held at gunpoint. Warner Oland is wonderful and powerful as a 'foreign prince of an Oriental country', who is a sophisticated but ruthless baddie, aided by Mischa Auer. The story evolves in a London fog, with Drummond entering a mysterious house and finding a dead man by a roaring fire with candles lit on a grand table and no one else in sight. When he comes back with a policeman, the body has disappeared. C. Aubrey Smith is rather irritating as the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, Colonel Nielson, who keeps roaring and threatening Drummond for waking him up all the time with disappearing corpses and kidnap victims. The story really is a good one, albeit rather over-melodramatic. This is an excellent thriller done with style and although it has never commercially been for sale, and can be obtained only with the greatest difficulty in a poor off-the-air DVD recording, it will not disappoint dedicated Drummondonians in the least. It is well worth searching for, and you also get the thrill of the chase as an added extra, which is very Drummondesque in itself. So go for it!