“BULLDOG DRUMMOND” AT GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 885, 31 January 1930, Page 14

“BULLDOG DRUMMOND” AT GRAND

‘•Bulldog Drummond,” the film adaptation of the famous book by “Sapper,” commences today at the Grand Theatre. The film, which is an all-talking United Artists production, gives Ronald Colman, who will be favourably remembered for sterling portrayals in dramatic roles, an opportunity to play his first genuine comedy part since he entered American pictures. The story, which is familiar to thousands, deals with the thrilling, and at times humorous, adventures of Bulldog Drummond, a demobilised English officer in search of excitement after the war. With a friend, Algy Longworth, he advertises in a London newspaper for excitement, stipulating that there will be no objection to danger. He chooses one answer at random out of several thousand, signed “Phyllis 8.,” and follows up the plea for help contained in it. A meeting place is appointed, and Drummond learns that while travelling with her uncle, an American millionaire named Travers, the latter has been taken prisoner by an unscrupulous Dr. Lakington, and his confederate, Peterson.