For the 1966 song, see Deadlier Than the Male (song). For the 2005 television episode, see Ultimate Force. For the 1956 film, see Deadlier Than the Male (1956 film).
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
12 February 1967 (1967-02-12) (UK)
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.
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