Calling Bulldog Drummond

Calling Bulldog Drummond
UK quad poster for the film Calling Bulldog Drummond
Directed byVictor Saville
Written byGerard Fairlie
Howard Emmett Rogers
Arthur Wimperis
Herman C. McNeile
Produced byHayes Goetz
StarringWalter Pidgeon
Robert Beatty
Margaret Leighton
David Tomlinson
CinematographyFreddie Young
Edited byFrank Clarke
Music byRudolph G. Kopp
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • 2 July 1951 (1951-07-02)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,594,000[1]
Box office$889,000[1]

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.[2][3][4] 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.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Variety film review; 11 July 1951, page 6.
  3. ^ Monthly Film Bulletin review; 1951, page 310.
  4. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; 20 October 1951, page 167.