Stars: John Howard, John Barrymore, Louise Campbell Director: Louis King Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
@PizzaFlix This movie was delightfully funny. I'm watching all the movies in the Bulldog Drummond series. Great fun. Thank you for posting them for us to enjoy.
Bulldog.....brash and bold Tenny........witty and wise Algie Walgie......gullable and a gonche Put them all together and what do you get, a damn good movie. Great upload.
John Barrymore townhouse in NYC is called "Frankie & Johnnie's" Now.....John Barrymore use to hangout at Keens's Steak House in NYC built in 1885...His pipe is on display with other famous people's pipes who use to dine there...Keens is still doing a great business...When you go into Keens, it takes you back in time..
Great old movie. Love 'em all. Thank you so much for this. Presumably Barrymore was one of the Barrymore dynasty but somehow, I doubt it. Most enjoyable, so thank you very much. i am one year older than the film!
A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage, and briefly attempted a career as an artist... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore
In one movie, they actually do! That movie is "Bulldog Drummond's Bride," but it was a bumpy ride before they were married! It's the last one of this 8 film (1937 - 1939) series. (Don't get me wrong, there are more Drummond movies than the 1937 - 1939 series, but I'm being specific here.)
Tenny's no stranger to danger, he's willing to take hits for the team, he doesn't run off, he doesn't complain when death stares him in the face... Why is it exactly that this series hasn't yet made a comeback?
Love these films but did no one else notice one minute they are back and forth between the train and the boat....? The boat that is already 'underway'?
The sign earlier said "Boat-Train" or "Train-Boat." I'm guessing that either the train was placed on the boat, or the boat never left the harbor and the train was right next door. I'm not quite sure which is true; I thought the boat moved.
After a little bit of research, apparently a "Boat Train" was once semi-common in England area. They'd have a train (or at least a few cars?) get loaded up onto a boat, then it could keep going on its way at the next location. There seem to still be a handful left, but it's a lot less common now than it was in the 1930s.
That was also the case in 1939; see the Mr. Moto series with Peter Lorre. However, they stopped making those films at that point. 8 Mr. Moto movies were released from 1937 - 1939.
good fun . only the American actors ,Idioms ,and stock footage of trains. detract From the stiff upper lip frolics.. but "Your hand Sir" is priceless. thanks for posting.
At 10:00 rare Barrymore slapstick. By this time he apparently would take on almost any role and had likely burned his bridges with other studios and directors. Why else would he be in this Paramount B feature credited "with"?
Well, this was interesting, the great John Barrymore in a poverty row studio serial in a SUPPORTING part but with his name billed twice as large and above the star's name ! This I'm sure must have been part of the agreement in order for Barrymore to take the part but I can imagine John Howard was probably not too pleased. I applaud the director for keeping Barrymore from stealing the scenes, and Barrymore to his credit, looked sober and did well in the part. But I can imagine this must have been quite a let down for Barrymore since he had just finished the big Oscar winning MGM production of Romeo and Juliet with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, where Barrymore had third billing and played Mercrutio. Interestingly, Reginald Denny was also in that film, playing a relative of Romeo. As for this film, it was very well done and I think this is my favorite of the Bulldog Drummond series.
@@scarygary-qq1pjI'm not trying "say" anything, just found this to be an interesting bit of trivia. Being a "Golden Age of Hollywood" Nerd and amature historian, I find anomalies in the studio system and film production fascinating.
It doesn't make sense to me, either. This seems to be just one of those cases where it's "Eh, let's just name the movie" and so they put a bit of an empty title on it.
E.E. Clive's butler was the funniest thing in the movie. Not sure why they cast American John Howard as such a quintessentially British character. It would be like casting an American as James Bond. Also, Reginald Denny (who played Algy) was a pioneer in unmanned aerial vehicle technology. My biggest question is, why didn't the hexanite ever explode, considering it's supposed to be dangerously unstable and that case gets tossed around quite a bit?
A woman falls in love with you, then wants to change you from all you do, this is typical of most women, I was very fortunate, my wife didn't want to change me, we've been married for over 45yrs, I was a pilot at large, I flew for the US Government, retiring in 1986, now I'm 82yrs old.
Gotta hand it to the writers on that one, I don't think I would have typed that story element out. That's part of why I like watching old movies like this one, sometimes you just never know what's gonna happen.
"DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (1967) with Elke Summers and Richard Johnson, (HE was...) SERIOUSLY considered to be James Bond BEFORE Sean Connery", ...was an attempt to update Bulldog Drummond to the '60s spy craze. I wish there was an earlier, 1930s or '40s version of this film with a kabal of female assassins.
@@MichaelGunner123There's nothing wrong with saying "oriental". It simply means "eastern". Is it wrong to say "occidental" to reference "western"? To say "Asian" is too vague. Asia is a big place with a vast array of differing cultures, etc. It could mean someone is Chinese, Iranian, Israeli, Armenian, Uzbek, Siberian, Indonesian, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Yemeni, Sri Lankan, Iraqi, Indian, Malaysian, Burmese, Vietnamese, Kazakh, Mongolian, Saudi, etc. The list is seemingly endless. It's folly to let political correctness overwhelm logic. You just end up sounding more ignorant than you already are. I hope you learned something from this.
Those air cooled radial engines, burn a lot more fuel than a water cooled engines do, cuz the tolerances are much closer in water cooled engines, delivering more horse power per cubic inche. The air cooled radial engines can burn twice the fuel, than a 12 cylinder water cooled engine. That's why the water cooled engines are put in the P51 fighter planes & the P38's, its the Merline 12 cylinder engines a very good & powerful engine, that can kick the Germans fighter aircrafts ass.
What pathetic women. One can't accept her husband-to-be's job, the other keeps on fainting at the thought of not going to some Swiss castle/chalet and screaming (or rather shrieking) when lights go out.
