The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary. And, of course, win the heart of a jolly nice young lady.
Acting
Alan Shearman's jaw-jutting commitment to pure idiocy
Writing
Every line sounds like it escaped from a 1930s pulp novel
Production
Gloriously cheap sets that somehow help the joke land harder
Director
Dick Clement
Alan Shearman
Capt. Hugh (Bullshot) Crummond
Frances Tomelty
Fräulein Lenya von Bruno
Mel Smith
Crouch
Michael Aldridge
Prof. Rupert Fenton
Christopher Good
Lord Binky Brancaster
Billy Connolly
Hawkeye McGillicuddy
Geoffrey Bayldon
Col. Hinchcliff
Ron Pember
Dobbs
Angela Thorne
Hotel Manageress
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nobby Clark
Bryan Pringle
Waiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bullshot Crummond originated as a 1970s stage parody at Edinburgh Fringe, born from the same troupe that gave us The Rocky Horror Show's spiritual ancestors.
The film's producers secured the rights to use the original Bulldog Drummond character for exactly $0, since the books had entered public domain—explaining why this parody feels more legally liberated than Airplane!
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