Bulldog Drummond at Bay | |
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Directed by | Sidney Salkow |
Produced by |
Louis B. Appleton Jr. Bernard Small |
Written by |
H.C. McNeile Frank Gruber |
Starring |
Ron Randell Anita Louise Patrick O'Moore |
Edited by | Aaron Stell |
Production
company |
Venture
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
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70 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Bulldog Drummond at Bay is a 1947 American thriller film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Ron Randell for the first time as the British sleuth and adventurer Bulldog Drummond. The cast also includes Anita Louise, Patrick O'Moore and Terry Kilburn.
The film is loosely based on the novel Bulldog Drummond at Bay by H. C. McNeile.
When thieves rob his country estate, Bulldog Drummond uncovers a deadly jewel caper involving foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret British aircraft.
In June 1946 it was announced Venture Pictures, a Columbia producing unit headed by Lou Appleton and Bernard Small, had done a deal with the estate of H.C. McNeile to make two Bulldog Drummond pictures (the last one had been Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)).
Leonard Maltin called the film an "innocuous British 'quota quickie'"