In the same year as Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, the British released a superb satire on the then currently popular Drummond films. As Everson points out in his “The Detective in Film,” “the genuine satire has to succeed on two levels: it has to be subtly funny, without ridiculing its inspiration, and it also has to be a good enough example of the genre it is kidding to stand up to the particular demands of that kind of film.”

Bulldog Jack “got off to a good start by a traditional set of credit titles, with appropriate agitato music, but punctuated by a pistol shot and a scream halfway through. The villainy was in the experienced hands of Ralph Richardson (a wonderfully satiric portrait, yet one fraught with real menace too), a topheavy opposition to the zaniness of Jack Hulbert, who replaces the real Bulldog Drummond in a case involving kidnapping and the looting of the British Museum....

“The confrontation between detective Hulbert and master criminal Richardson - apologizing in mellow, cultured tones for the unavoidable necessity of killing him - has an exact parallel in that same year's The 39 Steps....
“The action scenes carry real thrill too because, despite the comedic punctuation, they are tense and so carefully staged that even with the use of some meticulously constructed miniatures, they look like the real thing. The final third of the film is virtually all chase.... With brother Claude Hulbert backing up Jack, and Fay Wray playing the lady-in-distress with all the earnestness she displayed when being chased by Lionel Atwill or King Kong, the film is a little gem....”