Calling Bulldog Drummond
| Calling Bulldog Drummond | |
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UK quad poster for the film Calling Bulldog Drummond
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| Directed by | Victor Saville |
| Produced by | Hayes Goetz |
| Written by |
Gerard Fairlie Howard Emmett Rogers Arthur Wimperis Herman C. McNeile |
| Starring |
Walter Pidgeon Robert Beatty Margaret Leighton David Tomlinson |
| Music by | Rudolph G. Kopp |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Edited by | Frank Clarke |
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| Distributed by | MGM |
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Release date
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2 July 1951 |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,594,000 |
| Box office | $889,000 |
Calling Bulldog Drummond is a 1951 British crime film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, and Bernard Lee. It featured the character Bulldog Drummond created by the novelist Herman Cyril McNeile, which had seen a number of screen adaptations. A novel tie-in was also released in 1951. It was made by the British subsidiary of MGM at Elstree Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge.
Drummond is called out of retirement by Scotland Yard to infiltrate a ruthless London crime outfit.
After three robberies are pulled off with military precision, Inspector McIver (Charles Victor) asks Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Walter Pidgeon) to give Scotland Yard a hand. As an ex-officer, Drummond knows how the suspected military mastermind would think. He agrees, though he very reluctantly accepts Sergeant Helen Smith (Margaret Leighton) of Special Branch as his partner, believing that women are not cut out for that sort of undercover work.
Drummond arranges to get caught cheating at poker at his London club so he can drop out of sight. Smith causes a minor car accident involving Arthur Gunns (Robert Beatty), suspected of being in the gang. Gunns' attraction to Smith and carefully planted evidence showing "Joe Crandall" and "Lily Ross" to be criminals themselves enables the pair to infiltrate the gang.
Drummond's friend Algernon Longworth (David Tomlinson), who has been kept in the dark about the whole matter, becomes convinced that all is not what it seems. He telephones Colonel Webson (Bernard Lee), a member of Drummond's club, to get him to postpone Drummond's disciplinary meeting. By so doing, he inadvertently tips off the secret leader of the gang. Drummond and Smith are taken prisoner.
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