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"DEADLIER THAN THE MALE" IS
EXCITING, FURIOUS ADVENTURE
A fast and exciting motion picture in Technicolor, replete with a group of beauteous bikini~clad international assassins, and a jet-age Bulldog Drummond who does them in, comes ....... to the ....... Theatre. It is "Deadlier Than the Male," a Universal release of a Sydney Box-Bruce Newbery production.
The female assassins are portrayed by curvaceous Elke Sommer,
Sylva Koscina, Suzanna Leigh and other beauties from such far off places as Japan, India and Egypt. The up-dated, ingenious insurance investigator, Bulldog Drummond, is essayed by Richard Johnson, whose American nephew in the film is Steve Carlson. Another co-star, always very much in evidence in any adventure story, who has an important part in the hair-tingling thrills, is Nigel Green.
Ralph Thomas, who started in the technical side of British film making in 1932, is the director. He moves the peril-laden story at a furious pace, from one climactic event to another. The bevy of beauties are handled so that each one's distinct personalities play an important part in the story's progress. Jimmy Sangster, David Osborn and Liz Charles-Williams show tremendous ingenuity in their screenplay.
Richard Johnson's Bulldog Drummond is a dashing, highly intelligent insurance investigator who is never daunted in tracking down the gang of assassins who are in the business of delivering international oil properties for a fee that runs into the millions. Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina are the primary executors of the plan. Nigel Green, as a member of the boards of the oil companies that purchase the properties, matches his wits with Johnson.
To accomplish their ends, the assassins use ingenious murder techniques, among them: a harpoon gun in the hands of skin divers on the beach; a pistol barrel in a cigar that shoots its bullet when the stoggie is lit; a dart with a paralyzing effect on the victim, who then can be thrown from the pent-house balcony of a tall apartment building; a bomb attached to a timer set to blow up after the perpetrators have long since gone; and a highly powerful explosive capsule dropped in the wig of its female victim.
"Deadlier Than the Male" is jammed with thrills that come at a furious
pace throughout the film.
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