Spies on screen
December 12th 2011 05:15
Ian Fleming said that one inspiration for the character of super spy James Bond was Bulldog Drummond, an English gentleman who survived the boredom of the post-WWI years by acting as a detective, intelligence agent and all-around adventurer. Introduced by novelist Herman Cyril McNeile in 1920, Drummond was featured in a slew of films beginning in 1923, and in a popular radio series.
At left: Ronald Colman is in a sticky situation with Lilyan Tashman in "Bulldog Drummond" (1929), the first Drummond talkie. Colman earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
The character was reintroduced in a Bond take-off "Deadlier Than the Male" (1965) in which Drummond goes after two curvaceous female assassins.
Credit: United Artists
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