Bulldog Jack – 1935 | 72 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Many regard The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934), starring Ralph Richardson, as the closest to the original stories. The most polished and entertaining of the British Drummond films of the 1930s was in fact not a straight thriller but a pastiche. Walter Forde’s Bulldog Jack (1935); a vehicle for the light entertainer Jack Hulbert. Along with the slapstick and puns, the film includes some nice touches of irony. The robbery sequence in the British Museum is atmospheric, and the fight aboard a speeding train from Bloomsbury Underground is as exciting as a straight thriller. The US version was edited into a straight thriller with the comedy scenes removed.

Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming) is injured in a car crash with Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert), a first-class cricketer, who agrees to impersonate the bedridden detective in order to help the heroine, Ann Manders (Fay Wray), whose father has been kidnapped by arch-criminal Morelle (Ralph Richardson). Assisted by Drummond’s silly-ass friend Algy (Claude Hulbert), Jack saves the girl and foils a plan to steal a priceless jeweled necklace from the British Museum.