Review of Bulldog Drummond (1929) by Jeff B — 29 Apr 2009

Entertaining crime film starring Ronald Colman (in his first talking picture) as the title character, a regular citizen who gets bored with his life so he decides to become a crime fighter. This movie had a great opening, it just jumps into the story.

The cast is fun, Colman is excellent and Claude Allister is great as the comedic part of the team. The story's not the greatest and it's got some simple gags, but you've gotta remember that this was 1929 and a lot of this stuff hasn't been filmed before (for instance, the bad guys not realzing they're fighting each other in the darkness).

This is the first part of one of those film series during that time, I believe Colman only starred in the next film before others took his place.