a5c7b9f00b Henri Armides and his assistant, Garvey, blow up and rob a London bank in broad daylight and get away with 10,000 pounds. They hide the money in a radio but the radio is in the apartment that Colonel Hugh &quot;Bulldog&quot; Drummond and his intended bride, Phyllis Caverling, will be occupying after they are married. Married nor not, they check out the honeymoon apartment. This does not bode well for Armides and Garvey&#39;s plans to recover the money; it also does not bode well for Phyllis and Drummond&#39;s plans to get married. A bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. But this time when the delinquents are caught it will be celebrated at last. Lame entry in the Drummond series. Everyone, including the robbers, is after a portable radio that has the loot from a bank heist hidden away in it. Trouble is it&#39;s like the writers (3) have no idea what to do with the narrative. Instead the cast gets to run around shadowy stage sets and literally throw bombs when things slow down. Too bad, because the cast includes a number of capable performers, including Howard, Denny, Clive, et al. At the same time, the comely Angel has little more to do than stand around and look pretty. The best part is the bang-up opening that promises more than&#39;s delivered. Anyway, there&#39;s no suspense or real surprises one would expect from a detective show. Instead, it&#39;s like there&#39;s really no script, or worse, a deadline to meet. So everyone gets to run around and wing it. All in all, the flick&#39;s an unfortunate waste of money and talent. Good thing the series was usually better than this. This short Bulldog Drummond film opens with a bang when a bank robber blows the vault in a London bank and makes off with ten thousand pounds. The police quickly set up a cordon but the robber has a plan he stashes the cash inside a radio in a flat that is being renovated then pretends to be a decorator who has gone insane to be driven through the cordon in an ambulance. By quite a coincidence the flat has been bought by Drummond and his bride to be Phyllis. Inevitable the robber returns for the radio but by then it has been sent to France where Phyllis is preparing for her marriage. The robber and his sidekick head over to France and Drummond, his butler Tenny and his friend Algy follow and Drummond promptly gets arrested by the French police who believing him to be a spy following a tip off from Scotland Yard where the police aren&#39;t pleased with Drummond leaving London when they had asked to come in to help with an identification.<br/><br/>This was a rather fun film the drama was decent enough with a few fights and explosions. There were also quite a few laughs; mostly provided by Algy and the French Police Chief/Mayor. The scene where Algy confronts the thief, who is pretending to be mad, was a particularly fun bit of slapstick. While one never has any doubt that Drummond will solve the crime there is one question that will be on the viewer&#39;s mind will Drummond finally marry Phyllis?! John Howard puts in a solid performanceDrummond and Heather Angel makeswelcome returnPhyllis, although her character is slightly underused but notunderusedH.B. Warner&#39;s police inspector Colonel Nielson. Overall a decent instalment in the series where the laughs seem more important than the drama.
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