Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934 film)

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
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Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Written by Nunnally Johnson
Henry Lehrman
Based onBulldog 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 byAllen McNeil
Music by Alfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • August 15, 1934 (1934-08-15)
Running time
83 mins
Country United States
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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.

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