This Drummond mystery depicts such a contemporary problem for a 1947 film. World War Two had just finished and there must have been missing persons who needed to come to light at that time. Blitzed England would have caused peoples' identities to be questioned if their local registration records had been destroyed by the bombing. So here we have a solicitor who is telling Inspector Sanderson of Scotland Yard about the difficulty of false heirs claiming fortunes they were not entitled to. And immediately we are confronted with an intrigue of two women claiming to be Ellen Curtiss. Both of them seem genuine. Both of them claim that the other one is a fake so one of them is a brazen liar.
Bulldog Drummond is a friend to Inspector Sanderson who is trying to sort out which woman is the true heir to their aunt's estate. Sanderson is found dead with one of the Ellens hiding in his closet. After Drummond takes on the case it's really intriguing how he seems to be playing off the two women one against the other. It's difficult to fathom how his mind is working. And although we can be persuaded that one Ellen is telling the truth there are continual stumbling blocks set in our way of our certainty about that truth.
This is the second and last of the two mysteries with Ron Randell as Drummond for Columbia Pictures. Then unless I've missed someone out the Drummond character left Columbia and went onto Reliance Pictures/Fox with two Tom Conway portrayals of him in 1948.
Bulldog Drummond is a friend to Inspector Sanderson who is trying to sort out which woman is the true heir to their aunt's estate. Sanderson is found dead with one of the Ellens hiding in his closet. After Drummond takes on the case it's really intriguing how he seems to be playing off the two women one against the other. It's difficult to fathom how his mind is working. And although we can be persuaded that one Ellen is telling the truth there are continual stumbling blocks set in our way of our certainty about that truth.
This is the second and last of the two mysteries with Ron Randell as Drummond for Columbia Pictures. Then unless I've missed someone out the Drummond character left Columbia and went onto Reliance Pictures/Fox with two Tom Conway portrayals of him in 1948.