BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA (1938) John Howard & Heather Angel | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | B&W

Bulldog Drummond in Africa is a 1938 American adventure crime film. This was the 13th of 25 in the Bulldog Drummond film series from 1922 to 1969.

SYNOPSIS
Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.

Again on the eve of his wedding, Captain Hugh Drummond has more pressing concerns when he sets off from London for Spanish-Morocco, because his fiancée Phillis Clavering has seen Colonel Nielsen from Scotland Yard being kidnapped by an international criminal gang. Their intent is to force him to reveal the secrets of the British Empire's latest military technology. With his fiancée, chum 'Algy', & valet 'Tenny' Tennyson in tow, Bulldog outwits Scotland Yard's bureaucratic blundering, flies his own plane 1200 miles only to find more bureaucratic blundering by the local British Consul ordering him home without delay.

CAST & CREW
John Howard as Capt. Hugh Chesterton "Bulldog" Drummond
Heather Angel as Phyllis Clavering
H.B. Warner as Col. J.A. Nielson
J. Carrol Naish as Richard Lane
Reginald Denny as Algernon "Algy" Longworth
E.E. Clive as "Tenny" Tennyson
Anthony Quinn as Fordine
Michael Brooke as Baron Nevsky
Matthew Boulton as Major Grey
Neil Fitzgerald as McTurk

Directed by Louis King
Screenplay by Garnett Weston
Based on Challenge 1937 novel by Herman C. McNeile
Cinematography William C. Mellor
Edited by Anne Bauchens
Production company Paramount Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date August 5, 1938
Running time 58 minutes
Country United States
Language English