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Bulldog Drummond in Africa is a american film of genre Action directed by Louis King released in USA on 5 august 1938 with John Howard

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
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Released in USA 5 august 1938
Length 58minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Action,    Adventure,    Crime
Rating59% 2.9983752.9983752.9983752.9983752.998375

Bulldog Drummond in Africa is a 1938 American crime thriller film. This was the 13th of 25 in the Bulldog Drummond film series from 1922-1969.

Synopsis

On the eve of his wedding Captain Hugh Drummond (John Howard) has more pressing concerns when he sets off from London for Morocco after a Scotland Yard Commander is kidnapped by an international criminal intent on forcing him to reveal the secrets of the British Empire's latest military technology. With his fiancée (Heather Angel), chum 'Algy' (Reginald Denny), & valet 'Tenny' Tennyson (E.E. Clive) in tow, Bulldog outwits Scotland Yard's bureaucratic blundering, flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find more bureaucratic blundering by the local British Consul ordering him home without delay. Drummond isn't an easy man to get rid of however and soon mounts a rescue plan, liberating the Commander, saving the Empire and throwing the villain to his own captive lions in the process.

Actors

John Howard

(Captain Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond)Heather Angel

(Phyllis Clavering)H. B. Warner

(Colonel J. A. Nielsen)J. Carrol Naish

(Richard Lane)Reginald Denny

(Algernon 'Algy' Longworth)
And :
E. E. Clive
Anthony Quinn
Matthew Boulton
Neil Fitzgerald
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