Bullshot Reviews

"Bullshot" was a very funny play that has lost some of its spontaneity and good-natured romping by being transferred to the screen. It's almost, but not quite, a send-up of the Bulldog Drummond flicks of the 1930s, and the plot plays second fiddle to the characters and caricatures. Bullshot Crummond (Alan Shearman) is one of those stiff-upper-lipped types who finds himself up against his archrival from WW I, Count Otto von Bruno (Ron House), and who must protect hush-hush information from the heinous German. The action takes place around a dark old mansion and culminates in a breakneck series of climaxes that range from battling a giant octopus to leaping onto a plane in midair. This movie is probably funnier to people who never saw any of the great Guinness or Sellers comedies; but in this day and age, when movie humor is either smarmy or Woody Allen, this sits somewhere in the middle and will make you smile, if not roar out loud. It is fast-moving, never flags, and will charm all but the most discerning.