Some Girls Do (1969/I)

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Writers:

Liz Charles-Williams (writer)
Herman C. McNeile (original characters)

Release Date:

23 January 1969 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Some Girls Will Do Anything In The Dark... Even Murder!

Plot:

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner (SST1)...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Sequel | Adventurer | Bulldog Drummond | Independent Film

Cast

Richard Johnson	...	Hugh Drummond
Daliah Lavi	...	Baroness Helga Hagen
Beba Loncar	...	Pandora
James Villiers	...	Carl Petersen
Vanessa Howard	...	Robot Number Seven
Maurice Denham	...	Mr. Mortimer
Robert Morley	...	Miss Mary
Sydne Rome	...	Flicky
Adrienne Posta	...	Angela, Drummond's daily
Florence Desmond	...	Lady Manderley
Ronnie Stevens	...	Peregrine Carruthers
Virginia North	...	Robot Number Nine
Nicholas Phipps	...	Lord Dunnberry, Air Minister
George Belbin	...	Maj. Newman
Yutte Stensgaard	...	Robot Number One

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | UK:PG (DVD rating) | USA:G | UK:A (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Cap Sa Sal hotel, Bagur, Girona, Girona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Ashdown Film Productions

Trivia:

James Villiers replaced Nigel Green.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)

Deadlier boring than "Deadlier than the male"

This sequel for the 1966 trash classic "Deadlier than the male" is quite a disappointment compared with the original spy movie. There are good bad movies and there are bad bad movies. This one's medium bad. The film has a great storyline (in exploitation terms), but suffers from being quite unfunny and kind of lustless in acting and directing. If you expect something like an "Austin Powers" flick back from the original sixties, you will be disappointed. The production design and the costumes are uninspired and look as if they'd belong to a cheap british early-seventies TV series. Even those female robots have a boring look and could have been designed much, much spicier. The movie lacks highlights like the great Robert Morley's hammy appearances, provided only in the first half of the movie. And this first half is a bore, anyway, especially due to the unfunny comic relief of Drummond's sidekick. The second half runs better, with more action and more funny scenes in it. The best scenes belong to Daliah Lavi as the bad girl, while pretty Sydne Rome (as the good girl) is absolutely colorless. Poor production, poor fun -at least in this case. Watching this movie is not a complete waste of time, but it comes close to that. So you are recommended to watch "deadlier than the male" for a third time instead.