Bullshot (film)
# Bullshot (film)

Bullshot is a 1983 British comedy film, based on the stage play Bullshot Crummond. The name comes from a parody of the 1929 film Bulldog Drummond with the lead character having elements of Drummond and Biggles.

## Plot

Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond is a World War I fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, and part-time sleuth. He must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary, and win the heart of the damsel in distress Rosemary Fenton.

## Cast

* Alan Shearman as Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond
* Diz White as Rosemary Fenton
* Ronald E. House as Count Otto van Bruno
* Frances Tomelty as Lenya von Bruno
* Michael Aldridge as Professor Rupert Fenton
* Christopher Good as Lord Binky Brancaster
* Ron Pember as Dobbs
* Mel Smith as Crouch
* Billy Connolly as Hawkeye McGillicuddy
* Geoffrey Bayldon as Colonel Hinchcliff

## Production

The film was produced by George Harrison's company Handmade Films. Shearman and White reprised their roles from the stage play.

## Reception

Colin Greenland reviewed Bullshot for Imagine magazine, and stated that "it is pell-mell, hammer and tongs, hell for leather all the way through a plot that gets more deliciously ludicrous by the second. Superb (over-)acting in spiffing costumes on scrummy sets, not a few guffaws, and comic cameos from Billy Connolly, Mel Smith, John Wells and 'Legs' Larry Smith."

