Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
February 12, 1967Release Date
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
February 12, 1967Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Richard Johnson
Hugh 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
Leonard Rossiter
Bridgenorth
Laurence Naismith
Sir John Bledlow
Zia Mohyeddin
King Fedra
Lee Montague
Boxer
Ralph Thomas
Director
Milton Reid
Chang
Jimmy Sangster
Writer
Yasuko Nagazumi
Mitsouko
David D. Osborn
Writer
Didi Sydow
Anna
Liz Charles-Williams
Writer
George Pastell
Carloggio
Herman C. McNeile
Writer
Dervis Ward
Henry Keller
Betty E. Box
Producer
Malcolm Lockyer
Composer
John Stone
David Wyngarde
Jill Banner
Pam
Ernest Steward
Cinematographer
Alfred Roome
Editor
Nikki Van der Zyl
Penelope (Voice)
Sylvana Henriques
Masseuse
Kitty Swan
Fourth Assassin
Richard Hurndall
Suited Man at Judo Club
Louis Matto
Headwaiter
James Payne
Taxi Driver
Marianne Stone
Weston's Secretary
Loretta White
Girl on King's Yacht
William Mervyn
Chairman of the Phoenician Board
Lewis Alexander
Phoenician Oil Executive
Ralph Michael
Board Member
Terence Conoley
Board Member
Patrick Halpin
Pan-Arabian Oil Board Member
John More
Pan-Arabian Oil Board Member
Colin McKenzie
Pan-Arabian Oil Board Member
Peter Brace
Car Park Assassin
George Sewell
Car Park Assassin
Joe Wadham
Car Park Assassin's Driver
Helen Thomas
Set Dresser
Don Sharpe
Sound Editor
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
Giorgio Gentili
Assistant Director
Dudley Messenger
Sound Recordist
Kit West
Special Effects
Cynthia Tingey
Costume Design
Geoffrey Rodway
Makeup Artist
Maude Onslow
Hairdresser
James Bawden
Camera Operator
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 12, 1967
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 41m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
Deadlier Than the Male is a 1967 British crime and mystery film. 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.
Richard Johnson (director Terence Young's original preference to play James Bond) stars as Drummond, updated to a suave Korean War veteran, now an insurance investigator, trailing a pair of sexy assassins (Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina) who kill for sport and profit. Drummond's American nephew, Robert Drummond (Steve Carlson, then a Universal Pictures contract star), becomes involved in the intrigue when he comes to visit.
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 working title of the film was The Female of the Species. "Deadlier Than the Male", the song featured in the film's opening credit sequence, was performed by the Walker Brothers.
Filmed in Technicolor and Techniscope, portions of the film were shot in Lerici, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. A sequel, Some Girls Do, followed in 1969.