Bulldog Drummond in Africa

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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
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Directed by Louis King
Screenplay by Garnett Weston
Based on Challenge
1937 novel
by Herman C. McNeile
Starring John Howard
Heather Angel
Cinematography William C. Mellor
Edited by Anne Bauchens
Color process Black and white
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • August 5, 1938 (1938-08-05)
Running time
58 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Bulldog Drummond in Africa is a 1938 American adventure crime film. This was the 13th of 25 in the Bulldog Drummond film series from 1922 to 1969. [1]

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Plot

Again on the eve of his wedding, Captain Hugh Drummond has more pressing concerns when he sets off from London for Spanish-Morocco, because his fiancée Phillis Clavering has seen Colonel Nielsen from Scotland Yard being kidnapped by an international criminal gang. Their intent is to force him to reveal the secrets of the British Empire's latest military technology. With his fiancée, chum 'Algy', & valet 'Tenny' Tennyson in tow, Bulldog outwits Scotland Yard's bureaucratic blundering, flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find more bureaucratic blundering by the local British Consul ordering him home without delay. Drummond and his friends aren't easy to get rid of, however; they soon mount a rescue plan, eventually liberating Colonel Nielsen and throwing the villainous ringleader to his own pet lions.

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References

  1. "Capt. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond (Character)". www.imdb.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01.