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Top five series detective film., 10 July 2004
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cjellis-1
This is not only the best Bulldog Drummond film, it is simply one of
the best series detective films ever made and I would even go so far as
to say it is one of the ten best classic (e.g. pre-1950) detective
films ever made. It is not a mystery in the sense that the perpetrator
is evident from near the start of the film...the real mystery is why
the crimes, including kidnapping and murder, are being committed
(another crime is why until recently we have not been able to buy
watchable home video copies!). The merits of this film are well stated
by the late William K. Everson in his book "The Detective in Film" but
for the record: the director Roy Del Ruth does a great job of keeping
the action moving; the lively cast, including Ronald Colman, Loretta
Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, and of course,
Warner Oland, is first-rate from top to bottom; the script by Nunnally
Johnson is witty and intelligent; and its production values including
fabulous sets like Oland's living room in his cavernous London mansion,
are untouchable. This film, which is part screwball comedy as well as
detective film, is in my view the only one which comes close to being
as good as The Thin Man (1934) in weaving the two genres together. I
can not believe there is anyone who thinks this is a bad film -- those
who rate it low must be having a bad day or confusing it with the 1947
Columbia "B" remake of the same title with Ron Randall! It is too bad
that copyright hassles have never made it available for television
broadcast in North America; otherwise I think this would be a very well
known and regarded film rather than one known mainly to die-hard genre
specialists.
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