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Release year: 1951

Storyline

A ruthless London gang prompts Scotland Yard to recruit retired Bulldog Drummond. He infiltrates the gang with detective Helen, gaining their trust until their true identities are exposed, leading to their capture by the gang overlord.

Top credits

Directors

Victor Saville

Writers

Cast

Walter Pidgeon — Maj. Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Margaret Leighton — Sgt. Helen Smith
Robert Beatty — Arthur Gunns
David Tomlinson — Algernon 'Algy' Longworth

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Did you know

• This film bombed at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $1,052,000 (over $13.4M in 2026) according to studio records. It didn't even make back its negative cost, let along expenses for duplication, distribution and advertising.

• The airliner seen in the film is a 1944 Douglas C-47A military transport made for the U.S. Army Air Force and then transferred to the Royal Air Force in WWII. It was converted to civilian use after the war and is in BEA livery and has registration G-AGIZ. After this footage was taken it was sold to a French airline and flew out of Hanoi in French Indochina. It was then sold to an airline in Colombia, South America, where on 22 April 1962 it flew into the side of a mountain killing all 40 passengers and crew aboard.

• Richard Johnson, who has a minor role would later play Bulldog Drummond in two sixties films: Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and Some Girls Do (1969).