Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Director
F. Richard Jones

Main cast
Ronald Colman; Claud Allister; Lawrence Grant; Montagu Love; Wilson Benge

Genres
Action, Thriller

Description
Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.


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