This is one of 8 Bulldog Drummond adventures produced by Paramount in the late 1930s, and sold to Congress Films (II) in mid-1954 for re-release; Congress redesigned the opening and closing credits, in order to eliminate all evidence of Paramount's ownership, going so far as to even alter the copyright claimant statements on the title cards; Congress, in turn, sold the films to Governor Films for television syndication. Along the way, Paramount, having disowned the films, never bothered to renew the copyrights, and they fell into public domain, with the result that inferior VHS and DVD copies have been in distribution for many years, from a variety of sub-distributors who specialize in public domain material.
Paramount signed a ten year contract with Bulldog Drummond author Herman C. McNeile (aka H.C. 'Sapper' McNeile) and this is the first film under that agreement.
This marks the first of eight appearances by E.E. Clive as Bulldog Drummond's valet Tenny. However, in the character's previous appearances his name was Denny. It was changed to avoid confusion with actor Reginald Denny, who was also a regular in this Paramount series as Drummond's friend Algy. They are the only two actors in this film to remain with the series when John Howard took over as Drummond, though Heather Angel would eventually rejoin the series.
Final film appearance of Guy Standing. He died February 24, 1937. His was succeeded in his part of Colonel Nielson by John Barrymore (3 films) and H. B. Warner (4 films.)
Drummond's car is a 1934 Jaguar SS1 tourer. In good condition or better an example of this car could be worth $100,000 or more.