Deadlier Than the Male

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In this 1967 drama, resourceful British agent Bulldog Drummond, who appeared onscreen in a series of spy stories between 1929 and 1951, returned to duty in the wake of James Bond. Here, Drummond (Richard Johnson) is on the trail of Carl Petersen (Nigel Green), a corrupt industrialist who has a bad habit of stealing the ideas of others and then killing them so he can reap their profits. The nefarious Petersen has a team of female assistants willing to kill on command, led by Irma (Elke Sommer) and Penelope (Sylva Koscina). One more Bulldog Drummond vehicle, Some Girls Do, followed in 1969 before the series was retired again. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Classics, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Ralph Thomas
Written By:

Liz Charles-Williams, Herman C. McNeile
On Disc/Streaming:

May 13, 2003
Runtime:

98 minutes

Cast

Richard Johnson
as Bulldog Drummond

Elke Sommer
as Irma Eckman

Sylva Koscina
as Penelope

Nigel Green
as Carl Petersen

Suzanna Leigh
as Grace

Steve Carlson
as Robert Drummond

Virginia North
as Brenda

Justine Lord
as Miss Ashenden

Lee Montague
as Boxer

Laurence Naismith
as Sir John Bledlow

George Pastell
as Carloggio

Milton Reid
as Chang

Leonard Rossiter
as Bridgenorth

Jill Banner
as Pam

William Mervyn

Zia Mohyeddin
as King Fedra

Yasuko Nagazumi
as Mitsouko

John Stone
as Wyngarde

Didi Sydow
as Anna

Dervis Ward
as Keller

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Critic Reviews for Deadlier Than the Male

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This piece of trashy nonsense is as insulting to standards of intelligence as it is to taste.

Nov 15, 2018 | Full Review…

Tony Mastroianni
Cleveland Press

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Audience Reviews for Deadlier Than the Male

Feb 29, 2012

I'm a huge fan of the "Bulldog Drummond" series from the thirties and this is the first of two updatings of the character made in the sixties. I also love trashy sixties movies, in fact to me Sixties cinema is all about hot Euro-chicks, Hammer monsters, and Elvis churning out B-musicals. So why didn't I enjoy this? Well strange as it may seem it just takes itself far too seriously. Give me the tongue in cheek tone of "The Man From Uncle" anyday. Richard Johnson is well cast though as Drummond; he had rather unwisely turned down the role of James Bond for "Dr. No".

The Movie W Super Reviewer
Dec 21, 2010

This is an excellent Eurospy movie, I thought this was going to be about female spy's but in turn its about the spy Bulldog Drummond and his stopping the assignation of a middle east oil baron, yes even in 1967 oil in the middle east was a big thing. Lots of neat spy stuff, like exploding cigar. Elke Sommer is beautiful as counter agent bad girl, and Richard Johnson plays an excellent Bulldog Drummon, only wished he did more films in this role. 4 stars

Bruce B Super Reviewer