Deadlier Than the Male
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| Deadlier Than the Male | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box Sydney Box |
| Written by | Liz Charles-Williams David D. Osborn Jimmy Sangster |
| Starring | Richard Johnson Elke Sommer |
| Music by | Malcolm Lockyer |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Editing by | Alfred Roome |
| Distributed by | J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors |
| Release date(s) | February 21 1967 |
| Running time | 98 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Deadlier Than the Male is a 1966 adventure film featuring the character of Bulldog Drummond. It is one of the many take-offs of James Bond produced during the 1960s. Richard Johnson stars as Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond, a suave insurance investigator trailing a pair of sexy assassins (Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina) who kill for sport and profit.
The title is a reference to the 1911 Rudyard Kipling poem "The Female of the Species," which includes the line: "The female of the species must be deadlier than the male", and also refers to Sapper's earlier Drummond book "The Female of the Species".
The film was followed by a sequel Some Girls Do in 1969.
[edit] Plot
When a top oil executive dies mysteriously aboard his private jet, the company's board suspects foul play and hires Drummond to investigate. Attempts on his own life lead him to believe the two lovely females are "hit men" for an international crime syndicate. Drummond pursues them from foggy London to the sunny Mediterranean, but finds himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the most diabolical mastermind since Ian Fleming's villain, Dr. No.
