| Deadlier Than the Male | |
|---|---|
 UK cinema poster | |
| Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
| Screenplay by | Jimmy Sangster David D. Osborn Liz Charles-Williams |
| Story by | Jimmy Sangster |
| Based on | Bulldog Drummond by Sapper Gerard Fairlie |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box |
| Starring | Richard Johnson Elke Sommer Sylva Koscina Nigel Green |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Edited by | Alfred Roome |
| Music by | Malcolm Lockyer title song performed by The Walker Brothers |
Production company | Greater Films Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million[1] or £588,597[2] |
Deadlier Than the Male is a 1967 British crime and mystery film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer.[3] 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.
- ^ Weiler, A. H. (30 January 1966). "Comedians' and Others Enlisted in Future Film Wars: More About Movie Matters". The New York Times. p. X11.
- ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 360
- ^ "Deadlier Than the Male". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 January 2024.