Temple Tower

1930 film by Donald Gallaher

  • April 13, 1930 (1930-04-13)
Running time
58 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Temple Tower is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by Donald Gallaher and starring Kenneth MacKenna, Marceline Day. and Peter Gawthorne.

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the 1929 novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile.[1] It is sandwiched between more celebrated portrayals of the character by Ronald Colman in two United Artists films Bulldog Drummond and Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back.[2]

Although described as lost,[2] the film still survives, with copies held in the UCLA Archives.[3]

Plot

Cast

  • Kenneth MacKenna as Bulldog Drummond
  • Marceline Day as Patricia Verney
  • Henry B. Walthall as Blackton
  • Cyril Chadwick as Peter Darrell
  • Peter Gawthorne as Marrhews
  • Ivan Linow as Gaspard
  • Frank Lanning as The Nightingale
  • Yorke Sherwood as Constable Muggins

References

  1. ^ Temple Tower entry, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed July 23, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Backer p.42
  3. ^ https://cinema.library.ucla.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=temple+tower&searchCode=FTIT*&setLimit=1&recCount=50&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search [dead link]

Bibliography

  • Backer. Ron. Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood. McFarland, 2012.

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Novels
  • Bulldog Drummond
  • The Black Gang
  • The Third Round
  • The Final Count
  • The Female of the Species
  • Temple Tower
  • The Return of Bulldog Drummond
  • Knock-Out
  • Bulldog Drummond at Bay
  • Challenge
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