Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American
United States
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 comedy
Comedy film
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-mystery
Mystery film
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-adventure
Adventure film
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 film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...

 and Loretta Young
Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...

.

Plot

Bulldog Drummond's partner Algy is 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
Telephone
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. To his shock he finds a dead 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, Gwen, who is the daughter of the dead man.

Cast

  • Ronald Colman
    Ronald Colman
    Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...

     ... Capt. Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond
  • Loretta Young
    Loretta Young
    Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...

     ... Lola Field
  • C. Aubrey Smith ... Captain Reginald Neilsen aka Colonel
  • Charles Butterworth
    Charles Butterworth
    Charles Butterworth, Ph.D. is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park....

     ... Algy aka Mousey
  • Una Merkel
    Una Merkel
    Una Merkel was an American Tony Award-winning stage and film actress.-Life and career:Una Merkel was born in Covington, Kentucky, and grew up in Philadelphia and New York City. She bore a resemblance to actress Lillian Gish and began her career as a stand-in for Gish, most notably in the 1928...

     ... Gwen
  • Warner Oland
    Warner Oland
    Warner Oland was a Swedish American actor most remembered for his screen role as the detective Charlie Chan.-Biography:He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality,...

     ... Prince Achmed
  • E.E. Clive ... London Bobbie
  • Mischa Auer
    Mischa Auer
    Mischa Auer was a Russian-born American actor.-Early life:Auer was born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia...

     ... Hassan
  • Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard was an Irish actor and film director of the silent and early sound era. He appeared in 116 films between 1913 and 1949. He also directed 23 films between 1916 and 1920....

     ... Parker, Drummond's Valet
  • Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies was an English actress of stage, screen, and television....

     ... Mrs. Field
  • Halliwell Hobbes
    Halliwell Hobbes
    Halliwell Hobbes was an English actor.-Life:His stage debut was in Sir Frank Benson's company in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs Patrick Campbell...

     ... Bobby
  • Arthur Hohl
    Arthur Hohl
    Arthur Hohl was a stage and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in the early 1920s...

     ... Dr. Sothern
  • George Regas
    George Regas
    George Regas was a Greek actor.Born in Sparta, Greece, he was the brother of actor Pedro Regas. He was a stage actor in Athens before coming to the U.S. In New York he played Romeo in a Grecian version of Romeo and Juliet.In 1921 Regas acted in his first motion picture: The Love Light with Mary...

    ... Singh
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