“The Big Three of British sight-gag comedy of the Thirties were Jack Hulbert, George Formby and Will Hay--the British equivalents of Lloyd, Langdon and Keaton, respectively. There was no British Chaplin--other than Chaplin.” W.K.E.

In the same year as Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back was released, the British released this superb satire on the then popular Drummond films. William K. Everson writes in 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 sort of film.... (In Bulldog Jack) the villainry 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 action scenes carry real thrill too.... 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....”