Thursday, May 10, 2007

Movie review - Bulldog #4 - "Bulldog Drummond's Peril" (1938) **


Bulldog who is about to get married and has travelled all the way to Geneva for that purpose - then Algy lets slip his uncle has invented diamonds; a worried diamond magnate goes after the uncle and Bulldog goes to the rescue. Again this is mostly a "chase" story but has a bit more plot than usual, with a decent twist as to the villain. There is also an entertaining fight where the villain takes on Drummond with a whip while Drummond defends himself with a rapier. This was the last of John Barrymore's three Drummond's - his role isn't very big and he isn't in good form, looking a bit drunk at times.

No comments: