a5c7b9f00b Henri Armides and his assistant, Garvey, blow up and rob a London bank in broad daylight and get away with 10,000 pounds. They hide the money in a radio but the radio is in the apartment that Colonel Hugh &quot;Bulldog&quot; Drummond and his intended bride, Phyllis Caverling, will be occupying after they are married. Married nor not, they check out the honeymoon apartment. This does not bode well for Armides and Garvey&#39;s plans to recover the money; it also does not bode well for Phyllis and Drummond&#39;s plans to get married. A bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. But this time when the delinquents are caught it will be celebrated at last. The only reason I even give this dull film a 4 is that there is some excellent continuity from the previous film–something unusual for a B-movie. Hugh Drummond (John Howard) is back with the same fiancée (Heather Angel) and her perennially frustrated aunt (Elizabeth Patteson). All too often in Bs, each episode was unique and continuity was almost always a problem–and in most Drummond movies this is definitely trueabout 2739 different actors played this character over the years. At the very end of the last film, Drummong and his fiancée were about to be married when the house exploded! Now, they are STILL trying to get married–but they&#39;ve rescheduled it to take place the next day. The problem is that the plot, apart from that, is amazingly dull and concerns a spy–but it never engages the viewer in the least. Poor writing (aside from the continuity) and lots of listless action make this tough going. Only for die-hard Drummond fans. The final Bulldog Drummond movie in the Paramount series stars John Howard and finally has Drummond marrying longtime fiancée Phyllis (the delightful Heather Angel). But before they get hitched there&#39;s another last-minute interruption in the form of a bank robber, a radio, and a trip to France. The cast of regulars (Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, H.B. Warner, and Elizabeth Patterson) are all fine. Eduardo Ciannelli plays the villain and hams it up nicely. There&#39;s even more comedy than usual in this one. Some of it is funny but most of it is just stupid, particularly where Algy is concerned.<br/><br/>Bulldog Drummond would return to the movies after WW2. First at Columbia, then Fox and MGM, with yet more actors playing the role (including Tom Conway and Walter Pidgeon). But none of those would be quiteenjoyablethe Paramount series. Which isn&#39;t saying a lot since these movies were never better than time-passers anyway. But I can honestly say I never found any of the movies bad, just ranging from &#39;ok&#39; to good. Even this final one, while weaker than the others, is still watchable. And it&#39;s not even an hour long so it&#39;s hard to argue against giving it a shot when you have time to kill.
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