Dec 12th  
Bulldog Drummond**      

(US 1929)                                

A bored ex-soldier advertises for adventure and answers a call from a girl in distress whose uncle is held by a gang of crooks.
The first of a series of Drummonds for the new Sound medium, displaying a fair amount of slickness with some quirks (there are a couple of song interludes for no good reason), together with settings and performances that are also sometimes stilted but rise above the slender nature of the material.

Written by: Sidney Howard, Wallace Smith, based on the stories by "Sapper" (Herman C. MacNeile).
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn.
Director: F. Richard Jones, Leslie Pearce.
Starring: Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Montagu Love Lawrence Grant, Lilyan Tashman, Wilson Benge.
Photography: George Barnes, Gregg Toland.
Musical Direction: Hugh Riesenfeld.
Production Design: William Cameron Menzies.

+ see also Deadlier Than the Male, from the other end of the Drummond film chronology

Preceded by:
Tom and Jerry in
Tee for Two**
(US 1945. 7m.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)