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Deadlier than the Male. Bulldog Drummond has led a charmed life, alas. In the early '20s, when he first came to public attention in the novels of Sapper (H. C. McNeile), he was an overblown Blimp who hated "Bolshies" and took peculiar pleasure in flogging "Hebrews." In 1929, the cur was portrayed by Ronald Colman as a sort of homey Holmes - a friendly legal beagle who spent more time rolling his big sad eyes at the lady customers than he did hounding down the villain. In Deadlier than the Male, the adaptable Drummond shows up as the type...
...There's no single tone to the letters we get," Bethell says, "I noticed last year that the Yale Alumni Magazine was loaded with attacks on Stoughton Lynd all from the old Blue class of '11 type, calling him a blot on the scutcheon of the Bulldog. The McNamara letters ran about two to one against the rowdy little students, but most of the best ones were in their defense. The greatest of them all was by Waldo Pierce '07 ripping into the "Barbarians at Washington...
Harvard boosted its lead to 5-0 midway through the third period when Bulldog defenseman Dwight Miller took a nice setup by Harvard's Don Grimble and bulleted a 20-footer into the far corner of his own goal...
...shaken up twice in the final period by a puck and a defenseman, lost his valiant shutout bid on a solo effort by Yale's Rick McCarthy with less than eight minutes to play. Pete Markle got the Blues' second goal at 14:15, and Wint Ritchie gave the Bulldog a meaningless third on a breakaway...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...