Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934 film)

1934 film by Roy Del Ruth

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Nunnally Johnson Henry Lehrman
Based on	Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1933 novel by Herman C. McNeile
Produced by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Ronald Colman Loretta Young C. Aubrey Smith Charles Butterworth
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	Allen McNeil
Music by	Alfred Newman
Production company	Twentieth Century Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	August 15, 1934 (1934-08-15)
Running time	83 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young. It was a loose sequel to the 1929 film Bulldog Drummond which had also starred Colman.

Plot

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

Cast

Ronald Colman as Capt. Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond
Loretta Young as Lola Field
C. Aubrey Smith as Captain Reginald Neilsen a.k.a. Colonel
Charles Butterworth as Algy a.k.a. Mousey
Una Merkel as Gwen
Warner Oland as Prince Achmed
E.E. Clive as London Bobbie
Mischa Auer as Hassan
Douglas Gerrard as Parker, Drummond's Valet
Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Field
Halliwell Hobbes as Bobby
Arthur Hohl as Dr. Sothern
George Regas as Singh
Olaf Hytten as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Ronnie Coleman as extra
Billy Bevan as Man In Hotel
H. N. Clugston as Mr. Field
Halliwell Hobbes as Second Bobbie

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v t e Films directed by Roy Del Ruth
The Cat's Meow (1924) Eve's Lover (1925) Three Weeks in Paris (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Man Upstairs (1926) The Little Irish Girl (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (1926) Wolf's Clothing (1927) The First Auto (1927) If I Were Single (1927) Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927) Powder My Back (1928) Conquest (1928) Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928) The Terror (1928) Beware of Bachelors (1928) The Desert Song (1929) The Hottentot (1929) Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) The Aviator (1929) Hold Everything (1930) The Second Floor Mystery (1930) Three Faces East (1930) The Life of the Party (1930) Divorce Among Friends (1930) My Past (1931) The Maltese Falcon (1931) Side Show (1931) Blonde Crazy (1931) Taxi! (1932) Winner Take All (1932) Blessed Event (1932) Beauty and the Boss (1932) The Mind Reader (1933) Employees' Entrance (1933) The Little Giant (1933) Captured! (1933) Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) Lady Killer (1933) Upperworld (1934) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) Kid Millions (1934) Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) Thanks a Million (1935) Private Number (1936) It Had to Happen (1936) Born to Dance (1936) On the Avenue (1937) Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) Happy Landing (1938) My Lucky Star (1938) Tail Spin (1939) The Star Maker (1939) Here I Am a Stranger (1939) He Married His Wife (1940) Topper Returns (1941) The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) Broadway Rhythm (1944) Barbary Coast Gent (1944) It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) The Babe Ruth Story (1948) Red Light (1949) Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) The West Point Story (1950) On Moonlight Bay (1951) Starlift (1951) About Face (1952) Stop, You're Killing Me (1952) Three Sailors and a Girl (1953) Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) The Alligator People (1959) Why Must I Die? (1960)

Films directed by Roy Del Ruth

v t e H. C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond
Novels	Bulldog Drummond The Black Gang The Third Round The Final Count The Female of the Species Temple Tower The Return of Bulldog Drummond Knock-Out Bulldog Drummond at Bay Challenge
Films	Bulldog Drummond (1922) The Third Round (1925) Bulldog Drummond (1929) Temple Tower (1930) The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) Bulldog Jack (1935) Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938) Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939) Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947) Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947) 13 Lead Soldiers (1948) The Challenge (1948) Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951) Deadlier Than the Male (1967) Some Girls Do (1969)
Other adaptations	Bulldog Drummond (1922 play) Bulldog Drummond (1941-1954 radio series)
Parodies and pastiches	Bullshot Crummond Bullshot The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

People

Virginia Fox (wife)
Richard D. Zanuck (son)
Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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