Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Two thugs (Brian Buchel, Jim Gerald) have kidnapped Scottish airplane designer Caldwell (Richard Bird) who, escaping momentarily, lucks out when his SOS reaches the reclining title character (American John Lodge, adopting an accent), in the English-made Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.

We immediately suspect that Doris (Dorothy Mackaill), acting like she has car trouble as she appears at the hero’s remote house on the Scottish moors, is linked to the skulduggery of the night before, the title character (John Lodge) playing it cagey, in Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.

Cracking start, headlines tell the tale of Kalinsky (Hugh Miller), European arms dealer between the wars, whom, when he meets Gregoroff (Victor Jory), we learn is plenty diabolical, Wilfrid Hyde-White the assistant, in the 1937 version of Bulldog Drummond At Bay, starring John Lodge.