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Calling Bulldog Drummond (Original title)
Date: 20 August 1951 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Victor Saville

Synopsis: Calling Bulldog Drummond is Scotland Yard. His assistance is needed in tracking down a gang of thieves who are operating on nothing less but a military scale.

Genre:
Detective drama

Subject:
Crime
Releases
Date: 1951Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins Length: 7187 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (21)
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Producer: Hayes Goetz, Production Manager: Dora Wright, Continuity: Angela Martelli, Screenplay: Howard Emmett Rogers, Screenplay: Gerard Fairlie, Screenplay: Arthur Wimperis, Original story: Gerard Fairlie, Director of Photography: F.A. Young, Camera Operator: Skeets Kelly, [Assistant Camera]: Nicolas Roeg, Special Effects: Tom Howard, Editor: Robert Watts, Editor: Frank Clarke, Art Director: Alfred Junge, Make-up: Colin Garde, Hair: Hilda Fox, Music: Rudolph G. Kopp, Recording supervisor: A.W. Watkins, Sound Recording: Peter Handford
Cast (12)
Walter Pidgeon (Hugh Drummond), Margaret Leighton (Sgt. Helen Smith), Robert Beatty ("Guns"), David Tomlinson (Algy Longworth), Peggy Evans (Molly), Charles Victor (Inspector McIver), Bernard Lee (Colonel Webson), James Hayter (Bill), Patric Doonan (Alec), Harold Lang (Stan), Michael Allan (Bert), Richard Johnson ([air traffic controller])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (5)
In: Motion Picture Herald v185 n3 20 Oct 1951  Page: 1066
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v185 n3 20 Oct 1951: no known title]Language: English

In: Today's Cinema v77 n6292 12 Jul 1951  Page: 6
Title: [Today's Cinema - v77 n6292 12 Jul 1951: no known title]Language: English

In: Monthly Film Bulletin v18 n211 August 1951  Page: 310
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v18 n211 August 1951: no known title]Language: English

In: Variety 11 Jul 1951
Title: [Variety - 11 Jul 1951: no known title]Language: English

In:
Title: [ - : no known title]


Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(2)
Film materials(2)
Description: 16mm NegativeBFI identifier: C-19474
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status


Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1120308
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status