Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

Directed by

Ralph Thomas

Genre

comedy film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A suave Korean War veteran named Bulldog Drummond tracks two beautiful women who work as assassins for fun and money.

stylishplayfullightheartedsuspensefulretrocampyquick-paced

What happens

Deadlier Than the Male is a 1967 British crime and mystery film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer. It is one of the many take-offs of James Bond produced during the 1960s, but is based on an already established detective fiction hero, Bulldog Drummond. Drummond, updated to a suave Korean War veteran, trails a pair of sexy assassins 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. A sequel, Some Girls Do, followed in 1969. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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