Bullshot * (1983, Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E House) – Classic Movie Review 10,585

Bullshot: ‘Is this seemly, Mrs Platt-Higgins, playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?’

Director Dick Clement’s silly 1983 British comedy Bullshot is a strained slapstick spoof of Bulldog Drummond, based on a play by its three stars, Alan Shearman, Diz White and Ron House [Ronald E House].

In it, Shearman plays dashing Twenties adventurer Captain Hugh ‘Bullshot’ Crummond rescuing a kidnapped inventor, foiling Count Otto van Bruno (Ronald E House) and winning young lady Rosemary Fenton (Diz White).

There are some laughs in the supporting roles from British TV funnymen Michael Aldridge as Professor Rupert Fenton, Mel Smith as Crouch and Billy Connolly as Hawkeye McGillicuddy, but, with the laughs scarce, the film is hardly an unqualified success.

Also in the cast are Frances Tomelty as Fräulein Lenya von Bruno, Michael Aldridge, Ron Pember, Mel Smith, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Bayldon, Christopher Good, Bryan Pringle, Angela Thorne, Peter Bayliss, John Wells, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Christopher Godwin.

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