
In 1920, Supervisor Elliott of the Internal Revenue Service came to Atlantic City to check on the progress of Agent Nelson Van Alden and his team in stemming the supply of liquor to the area. But when he found out that Van Alden was more obsessed with the widow of Hans Schroeder, he complained, "You're a Federal Agent, Nelson, not Bulldog Drummond!"
This occurred in the latest episode of 'Boardwalk Empire', "Family Limitations".
There was no reference to the legendary Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond as a fictional character. So we can read Elliott's statement as treating Drummond as a "real" figure within Toobworld.

Drummond would have been in his twenties, but his reputation was apparently already established.
All pretty reasonable to this televisiologist.
[Robert Beatty played Bulldog Drummond in that TV episode, but the picture of him above is from a movie released about a decade earlier.]
BCnU!
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