Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) introduces John Howard in the role of Capt. (ret.) Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, army officer turned adventurer -- and John Barrymore as Col. Nielson, Drummond’s friendly if skeptical ally at Scotland Yard. This time out the race against time mounts up, as Drummond’s fiancee Phyllis is kidnapped by an old enemy, who is planning something grisly for the both of them (in a death-trapped room and a series of challenges and clues that would tax James Bond). And on top of Barrymore, one gets a cast that includes perennial villain/master of a thousand faces J. Carroll Naish and character actors E. E. Clive, and Reginald Denny.