Bulldog Drummond

This time, the case involves an experimental ray machine that can cause explosions at great distances--and the man behind it all is Rolf Alferson.

This time, Drummond is trying to prevent foreign agents from stealing an experimental aircraft control system vital to England’s defense.

Capt. (ret.) Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, with his fiancee Phyllis and valet Algy are off to Africa to help find Hugh’s old friend Col. Nielson of Scotland Yard, who has been kidnapped.

Capt. (ret.) Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis--but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar in this brisk-paced finale to the Paramount Drummond series.

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).

Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police begins with Drummond and his fiancee Phyllis planning their lives post-wedding (which hasn’t happened yet). But then a series of deaths and an elusive murderer get in the way of their impending happiness.

Drummond gets wind of a deadly and highly unstable new explosive, and an industrialist who is trying to gain control of it for his own nefarious ends.

As Drummond and his fiancee are about to tie the knot, the theft of one of their wedding gifts--a synthetic diamond, no less--reveals the existence of a gang of international gem speculators who are willing to kill to control their market.

Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.

In the first of Paramount Pictures’ Drummond series, our hero literally drives into trouble when he encounters Phyllis Clavering, an heiress whose life may be in danger because of her family legacy, on a back road near her home.