Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Writers:

Liz Charles-Williams (writer)
David D. Osborn (writer)

Release Date:

12 February 1967 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller | Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

These are the women to put up a man's pulse rate - and stop it . . . stone dead!

Plot:

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings. |

Plot Keywords:

Bulldog Drummond | Spear Gun | Torture | Tape Recorder | Exploding Cigar

Cast

Richard Johnson	...	Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Elke Sommer	...	Irma Eckman
Sylva Koscina	...	Penelope
Nigel Green	...	Carl Petersen
Suzanna Leigh	...	Grace
Steve Carlson	...	Robert Drummond
Virginia North	...	Brenda
Justine Lord	...	Miss Ashenden
Zia Mohyeddin	...	King Fedra
Lee Montague	...	Boxer
Yasuko Nagazumi	...	Mitsouko
Laurence Naismith	...	Sir John Bledlow
George Pastell	...	Carloggio
Milton Reid	...	Chang
Leonard Rossiter	...	Bridgenorth

Runtime:

101 min | USA:98 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:12 (re-rating) (2007) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Norway:16 | Finland:K-16 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Lerici, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy

Company:

Greater Films Ltd.

Trivia:

Virginia North would turn up in the sequel Some Girls Do (1969/I) in a different role.

Goofs:

Continuity: Wyngarde's gun is heard to fall on the beach, but appears on the table again in the rest of the scene.

Quotes:

Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond: [hearing a fragment of a recording tape] "-ate the ruler of Ahk-"

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Conversation with Quentin Tarantino & Scott Spiegel (2004) (V)

First class production, plot and characters.

Classy production, solid plot, witty dialog, believable characters. When watching this film, one does not say, "Oh yeah, a 60's Bond take-off", as one does when watching perhaps "Our Man Flint" or "In Like Flint". Richard Johnson's Hugh Drummond is smooth, handsome and resourceful without being obnoxious or larger than life. Steve Carlson's Robert Drummond provides youthful energy without becoming a foil. Elke Sommer's Irma Eckman is irresistably gorgeous, intelligent, eloquent, and cold-as-ice deadly. Sylva Kocina's Penelope is kittenish, sensual and apologetic...even as she's torturing or killing a man. Nigel Green is a ruthless, cunning business man who has figured out how to get rivals out of his way; Kill them. The murders are clever, sexy and brutal but not campy. Universal Studios should make this "best-of-the-genre" entry available on video.