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The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Lame entry in the Drummond series. Everyone, including the robbers, is after a portable radio that has the loot from a bank heist hidden away in it. Trouble is it's like the writers (3) have no idea what to do with the narrative. Instead the cast gets to run around shadowy stage sets and literally throw bombs when things slow down. Too bad, because the cast includes a number of capable performers, including Howard, Denny, Clive, et al. At the same time, the comely Angel has little more to do than stand around and look pretty. The best part is the bang-up opening that promises more than's delivered. Anyway, there's no suspense or real surprises one would expect from a detective show. Instead, it's like there's really no script, or worse, a deadline to meet. So everyone gets to run around and wing it. All in all, the flick's an unfortunate waste of money and talent. Good thing the series was usually better than this.

Most of the Bulldog Drummond films are slight on the mystery plots and were watchable mostly because of the supporting casts. Who will forget Tenny or Algy or the constantly frustrated Phyllis? You probably remember more about them then any of the plot lines they were involved in. This final Drummond film of the '30's is very tired. Way too much bumbling and comedy and not much drama ( and no mystery) at all. Watch for the scene where Phyllis and her aunt are shown listening to the radio waiting for a late BBC news broadcast.Minutes later when Bulldog arrives and inquires about the radio he is told that it was taken to the police station by Gaston. We saw that happen several scenes before. Talk about a lapse of continuity (or did some explanatory scene get excised for time?) A word of warning regarding the transfers available via Alpha Video. Almost to a title I noticed that the running time is less than what is stated on the package and the IMDb. Based upon content it looks like these may have been shaved to fit into a 60 minute time slot (allowing for commercials etc.) as these titles are several minutes shorter than listed. Most titles originally ran 55 to 67 minutes but all have been shortened to @ 48 to 51 minute run times.Makes me wonder.

This is the sixteenth of the Bulldog Drummond films, and it brings to an end the Drummond films as they were before the outbreak of World War II. (They would resume in 1947.) With this film, John Howard also ends his career as Drummond, which had lasted for seven films, all made within two breathless years between September of 1937 and September of 1939. Heather Angel once again plays Phyllis Clavering, E. E. Clive plays Tenny the Butler, Reginald Denny plays Algy Longworth, and H. B. Warner plays Commissioner Nielson, all for the last time. John Howard left the film business to join the U. S. Navy (he was an American), where he ended up winning the Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for conspicuous acts of bravery, becoming in other words a real life hero of the sort he had played in the Drummond films. After the War, he returned to acting but was never again fortunate to shine as a major player. It seems a poor return for a fictional Drummond who became a real Drummond, that he could not resume the role. E. E. Clive died the next year, in 1940. Reginald Denny contributed to the War effort by manufacturing 15,000 target drones for the U. S. Army. He later returned to acting, but was never in another Drummond film. H. B. Warner and Heather Angel went on acting, but they never appeared in another Drummond film either. The team was totally broken up, and 'vintage 1930s Drummond' was over. This film is moderately entertaining, with lots of comedy, so that it is not actually serious. What with people having cans of paint thrown over them and slipping and sliding, Algy staging pratfalls continually, and other such antics, there is barely room for a mystery plot. However, Drummondians will be thrilled to know that ... oh no, I must not say ... that business which was continually being interrupted between Hugh and Phyllis, ... well, that must remain a mystery. The plot, what there is of it, concerns a ruthless villain who has robbed a bank for what then was considered a vast sum, of ten thousand pounds. It is hard to conceive of a time when that was a sum worth getting excited about, worth exploding bombs all over the place, killing people without compunction, and carrying on as if all the gold of the Indies were at stake. But that was then, and this is now. In this film as in so many others of the time, Scotland Yard 'seal off an area with a cordon, and no one can get through'. It seems incredible, doesn't it, that it was even remotely conceivable to seal off a sector of London like that just for a measly little bank robbery? Naturally, the villain gets away in an ambulance disguised as a madman. Maybe it really was time for the world to move on and get real. After this, there were tanks and planes and the Holocaust to worry about, and whether Hugh and Phyllis got married or not was no longer important, with so many women widowed that Phyllis having to wait for another crime to be solved no longer qualified as a tragedy.

Well, Hugh Drummond (John Howard) and Miss Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) finally tie the knot in this finale to the Bulldog Drummond series, but not without the usual share of mishaps that interrupted their union more than a half dozen times in the past. This time it's a slick bank thief that diverts Drummond and Scotland Yard's Colonel Nielson (H.B. Warner), with the misadventures making their way from London to France.Henri Armides (Eduardo Cianelli) is eventually fingered as the mastermind behind an explosion at the London and Southminster Bank, masking the theft of ten thousand pounds in British notes. His escape involves a clever ruse as a painter, winding up in a London flat recently rented by Miss Clavering. His bit borders on insanity, especially when he boldly takes a paintbrush to Algy Longworth's tie in an effort to better match his suit. Watch carefully when Armides dumps an entire bucket of paint on Algy's head; as both slip and slide on the wet floor, the thief drops the bucket and even more paint comes splashing out of it! With Drummond's repeated declarations that the wedding is still on, and Miss Clavering doubtful as ever, she takes off for Targemont, France, the proposed site of the nuptials. When Armides learns that Drummond has sent Phyllis' radio to Targemont, he makes his plans to follow as well; the stolen notes were hidden inside the radio.It's in this film that Colonel Nielson suffers the most indignity at the hands of the script writers. Usually Nielson, especially when portrayed by John Barrymore, kept his professionalism intact while Drummond and Company rode herd on the target villain. Here he comes across as somewhat inept, though his assistant Inspector Tredennis (John Sutton) manages to throw Drummond a zing when he wires the French authorities claiming that Drummond is really an international spy. It only works long enough for the proverbial all hell to break loose.The frenetic chase for Henri Armides coincides with the marriage ceremony, and in a rather innovative sequence, the wedding begins in a jail, proceeds to a French village rooftop, and concludes at the home of Phyllis' Aunt Blanche (Elizabeth Patterson). But at least Miss Clavering got her man! With the late 1930's Drummond series complete, the only actors to have made it through the entire stretch of nine films were Bulldog's sidekicks, Reginald Denny as Algy Longworth, and E.E. Clive as butler Tenny. Phyllis Clavering was depicted by Louise Campbell and Heather Angel; Colonel Neilson was variously portrayed by John Barrymore (3X), Guy Standing (once), and H.B. Warner (3X). Even Drummond himself was played by John Lodge and Ray Milland one time each before John Howard settled in to take on the role in seven films. Each mystery was done in a light hearted and comedic style, contrasted with the usually serious dramas presented in the Charlie Chan and Mr. Wong films of the era. However if you're a fan of the genre like me, you'll have fun with each movie, no matter which detective is doing the sleuthing.