Bulldog Sees It Through

Bulldog Sees It Through
Spanish poster
Directed by	Harold Huth
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Written by	Leslie Arliss Patrick Kirwan Doreen Montgomery
Based on	novel Scissors Cut Paper by Gerard Fairlie^[1]
Starring	Jack Buchanan Greta Gynt Sebastian Shaw David Hutcheson
Music by	Marr Mackie
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Flora Newton
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributed by	Pathé Pictures International (UK)
Release dates	14 September 1940 (1940-09-14)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Bulldog Sees it Through is a 1940 British, black-and-white, mystery war film directed by Harold Huth and starring Jack Buchanan, Greta Gynt, Googie Withers Ronald Shiner as Pug and Sebastian Shaw.^[2]^[3]

Plot

This is not a Bulldog Drummond picture despite the title playing off Jack Buchanan and his previous association with the character. Here he plays the role of Test Pilot 'Bulldog' Bill Watson. His friend Derek Sinclair (Sebastian Shaw) is convinced that the new man in his love's life is collaborating with the Nazis by sabotaging an armaments plant.^[4]

Cast

Jack Buchanan - Bill Watson
Greta Gynt - Jane Sinclair
Googie Withers - Toots
Sebastian Shaw - Derek Sinclair
David Hutcheson - Freddie Caryll
Robert Newton - Watkins
Arthur Hambling - Inspector Horn
Wylie Watson - Dancing Professor
Polly Ward - Miss Fortescue
Ronald Shiner - Pug
Aubrey Mallalieu - Magistrate
Raymond Huntley - Tramp Steamer Officer

Critical reception

The Observer wrote in 1940, "a prophetic but slow-footed war-time thriller, chiefly notable for the first really good impersonation of Lord Haw-Haw."^[5]

References

↑ "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film".
↑ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)". IMDb. 14 September 1940.
↑ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)". BFI.
↑ Hal Erickson. "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940) - Harold Huth - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
↑ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)".

External links

Bulldog Sees It Through at AllMovie
Bulldog Sees It Through at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
Bulldog Sees It Through at the Internet Movie Database

H. C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond

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