Ray Milland (Bulldog Drummond), Heather Angel (the lady in distress), Sir Guy Standing (commissioner), Reginald Denny (Algy), Porter Hall (Merridew), E.E. Clive (Tenny), Fay Holden (Mrs Seldon), Patrick J. Kelly (Stiles), Guy Kingsford (Stanton), Charles McNaugthton (slow-witted constable), Clyde Cook (second constable), Doris Lloyd (nurse).
Director: JIMMY HOGAN. Screenplay: Edward T. Lowe. Based on the stage play Bulldog Drummond Again by Gerard Fairlea and H.C. "Sapper" McNeile. Photography: Victor Milner. Film editor: William Shea. Art directors: Hans Dreier and Earl Hedrick. Set decorator: A.E. Freudeman. Music director: Boris Morros. Producer: Edward T. Lowe.
COMMENT: The first and best of the 1937-39 Paramount series, smartly paced by Jimmy Hogan, with Ray Milland playing the adventurous hero delightfully tongue-in-cheek to Angel's wanly beautiful heroine, is available on an excellent Critics' Choice DVD on the original green- tinted stock.
Menacing sets and noirish photography really impress.
But of course, my chief reason for adding this excellent DVD to my collection was to revel in its colored tint. I really enjoyed tinted movies, but they were not popular with the majority of suburban picture-goers. They found the tint "distracting" would you believe! Full color was okay. Black-and-white was okay. Sepia was even okay. But a green tint? No way! Too way out! Too unusual! Too uncomfortable!
Director: JIMMY HOGAN. Screenplay: Edward T. Lowe. Based on the stage play Bulldog Drummond Again by Gerard Fairlea and H.C. "Sapper" McNeile. Photography: Victor Milner. Film editor: William Shea. Art directors: Hans Dreier and Earl Hedrick. Set decorator: A.E. Freudeman. Music director: Boris Morros. Producer: Edward T. Lowe.
COMMENT: The first and best of the 1937-39 Paramount series, smartly paced by Jimmy Hogan, with Ray Milland playing the adventurous hero delightfully tongue-in-cheek to Angel's wanly beautiful heroine, is available on an excellent Critics' Choice DVD on the original green- tinted stock.
Menacing sets and noirish photography really impress.
But of course, my chief reason for adding this excellent DVD to my collection was to revel in its colored tint. I really enjoyed tinted movies, but they were not popular with the majority of suburban picture-goers. They found the tint "distracting" would you believe! Full color was okay. Black-and-white was okay. Sepia was even okay. But a green tint? No way! Too way out! Too unusual! Too uncomfortable!