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Bullshot Crummond

This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism at its dumbest.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Farce, Comedy

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups
This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism at its dumbest. Teutonic villain Otto Von Brunno and his evil mistress Lenya crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton, who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. 

Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue by the professor's daughter Rosemary. The two meet at the Carlton Tea Rooms, where Crummond is convinced that their waiter is Otto in disguise. The real Otto shows up, paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray and crams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth that will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. 

Crummond and Rosemary pursue Otto and Lenya in a hair-raising car chase, only to plunge over a cliff. They survive and sneak into the dungeons of Otto's hideout -- where the professor is being tortured. Crummond loses the ensuing saber duel with Otto. Unperturbed, Crummond finally triumphs by shooting the rest of the cast.
REVIEWS:

"Uproarious."

 International Herald Tribune

"Marvelous."

 London Sunday Telegraph

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Expandable casting

  • HUGH "BULLSHOT" CRUMMOND - Ex-officer of His Majesty's Royal Loamshires
    ALGY LONGWOET - Friend to Hugh Crummond and former Officer of the Royal Loamshires
    OTTO VON BRUNNO - The second most dangerous man in Europe
    LENYA VON BRUNNO - Otto's evil mistress
    A COUNTRY POLICEMAN
    PROFESSOR RUPERT FENTON - A fellow of the league of scientific discoveries
    MISS ROSEMARY FENTON - A young English lady of Turnbridge Wells
    A WAITER (at the Carlton tea room) - A long suffering member of the serving class
    INSPECTOR SCABBARD (of Scotland Yard) - A faithful policeman
    WOLFGANG SCHMIDT - Master of disguise and embittered Prussian
    MAROVITCH - The half-wit henchman to the Von Brunnos

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    This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism at its dumbest. Teutonic villain Otto Von Brunno and his evil mistress Lenya crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton, who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. 

    Bullshot Crummond is called to the rescue by the professor's daughter Rosemary. The two meet at the Carlton Tea Rooms, where Crummond is convinced that their waiter is Otto in disguise. The real Otto shows up, paralyzes Crummond with a fiendish ray and crams a stick of dynamite in Crummond's mouth that will explode when the next person enters the room. Rosemary enters, but the static electricity in her fur wrap averts the detonation. 

    Crummond and Rosemary pursue Otto and Lenya in a hair-raising car chase, only to plunge over a cliff. They survive and sneak into the dungeons of Otto's hideout -- where the professor is being tortured. Crummond loses the ensuing saber duel with Otto. Unperturbed, Crummond finally triumphs by shooting the rest of the cast.

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