Bulldog Sees It Through
Appearance
Bulldog Sees It Through | |
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Directed by | Harold Huth |
Written by | Leslie Arliss Patrick Kirwan Doreen Montgomery |
Based on | novel Scissors Cut Paper by Gerard Fairlie[1] |
Produced by | Walter C. Mycroft |
Starring | Jack Buchanan Greta Gynt Sebastian Shaw David Hutcheson |
Cinematography | Claude Friese-Greene |
Edited by | Flora Newton |
Music by | Marr Mackie |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Pathé Pictures International (UK) |
Release date |
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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
[edit]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 is convinced that the new man in his love's life is collaborating with the Nazis by sabotaging an armaments plant.[4]
Cast
[edit]- Jack Buchanan as Bill Watson
- Greta Gynt as Jane Sinclair
- Googie Withers as Toots
- Sebastian Shaw as Derek Sinclair
- David Hutcheson as Freddie Caryll
- Robert Newton as Watkins
- Arthur Hambling as Inspector Horn
- Wylie Watson as Dancing Professor
- Polly Ward as Miss Fortescue
- Ronald Shiner as Pug
- Aubrey Mallalieu as Magistrate
- Raymond Huntley as Tramp Steamer Officer
Critical reception
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.
- ^ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)". IMDb. 14 September 1940.
- ^ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)". BFI. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016.
- ^ Hal Erickson. "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940) - Harold Huth - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Bulldog Sees It Through (1940)". Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
External links
[edit]- Bulldog Sees It Through at AllMovie
- Bulldog Sees It Through at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Bulldog Sees It Through at IMDb
Categories:
- 1940 films
- 1940s mystery thriller films
- British black-and-white films
- Films directed by Harold Huth
- British World War II propaganda films
- World War II spy films
- British mystery thriller films
- British spy films
- Mystery war films
- Films with screenplays by Patrick Kirwan
- 1940s English-language films
- English-language mystery thriller films
- English-language war films
- World War II film stubs
- 1940s British film stubs
- 1940s thriller film stubs