UK quad poster for the film Calling Bulldog Drummond
Directed by
Victor Saville
Written by
Gerard Fairlie Howard Emmett Rogers Arthur Wimperis Herman C. McNeile
Produced by
Hayes Goetz
Starring
Walter Pidgeon Robert Beatty Margaret Leighton David Tomlinson
Cinematography
Freddie Young
Edited by
Frank Clarke
Music by
Rudolph G. Kopp
Production company
MGM British
Distributed by
Loew's, Inc.
Release date
2 July 1951 (1951-07-02)
Running time
80 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$1,594,000[1]
Box office
$889,000[1]
Calling Bulldog Drummond is a 1951 British crime film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson and Bernard Lee.[2][3][4] It featured the character Bulldog Drummond created by the novelist Herman Cyril McNeile, which had seen a number of screen adaptations. A novel tie-in was also released in 1951. It was made by the British subsidiary of MGM at Elstree Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge.
Drummond is called out of retirement by Scotland Yard to infiltrate a ruthless London crime outfit.
^ abThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^Variety film review; 11 July 1951, page 6.
^Monthly Film Bulletin review; 1951, page 310.
^Harrison's Reports film review; 20 October 1951, page 167.
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