Deadlier Than the Male
by Ralph Thomas
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Actor: Elke Sommer, Nigel Green, Richard Johnson, Suzanna Leigh, Sylva KoscinaDirector: Ralph Thomas
Cinematographer: Ernest Steward
Producer: Betty E. Box
Producer: Sydney Box
Writer: David D. Osborn
Writer: Herman C. McNeile
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
Writer: Liz Charles-Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Henstooth Video
DVD Reviews of Deadlier Than the Male
DVD Review: BOND-ED
Summary: 3 Stars
Lite 60"s farce with a nod to Bond. Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina look great and should have been Bond babes. Dvd quality is good, but why the high price? Should be in the $14.99 range. O.K. diversion if you don"t mind the high price.DVD Review: Actually, better than most Bond films
Summary: 5 Stars
My opinion of Bond films has dropped immensely over the years - they simply don't wear very well. The absurdity of Bond walking around in plain view with thousands of expert assassins unable to kill him (apparently those experts are too nearsighted, or something). And then the absurd Bond dilemmas cooked up by evil geniuses who apparently can't figure out how to kill the Bond fellow, despite possessing every weapon known to man - you catch my drift - Bond's films are so ludicrously illogical that they are almost stupidly funny. This brings us to "Deadlier ...", which has the stuff we are actually looking for in these films , with no pretense. Sommer and Koscina are a whole lot more pleasant to look at than any of the dozen or so James Bonds, and Richard Johnson is up to the task as well. I don't own a single Bond film, but
wouldn't do without "Deadlier ..."
DVD Review: Bond's Best Rival
Summary: 4 Stars
Jumping on the Bond wagon, producer Sydney Box decided to take on one of 007's antecedents and update him to the swinging sixties. Thus Sapper's square jawed, colonial defender of the Empire, Bulldog Drummond, became international insurance investigator Hugh Drummond, played with suave charm by one time Bond candidate Richard Johnson. The other shrewd move by the producers was to avoid the over spoofing of Bond's world that the other rivals had laden themselves with and instead devise a film that balanced the right amount of tongue in cheek thrill with a neatly structured script, above average production values, a cool theme song by Scott Walker, and a cracking finale worthy of a Bond caper itself.
Elke Sommer breezes across like a force ten hurricane as the film's titular assassin, working for the world class villain Carl Peterson, portrayed with the right blend of light and dark by Nigel Greene. The film's climatic showdown between hero and nemesis, in which Drummond traps Peterson on his own giant chess set and crushes him with the robotic pieces, is a memorable piece of imagery that helped lift the film above the bigger budgeted hackwork of Matt Helm or Derek Flint.
A hit in its time, Johnson returned as Drummond three years later in an uninspired follow up that, with its use of "fembots" and a younger Peterson back from the dead without explanation, strayed too much into the territory of the other Bond spoofs and was deservedly buried.
Deadlier Than the Male, after decades of neglect, now appears to be re emerging as a cult film, thanks in part to Quentin Tarentino naming it as one of his favourite movies. This led to a newly restored printed being screened at Cannes and is now finally on DVD, complete with its sequel.
DVD Review: Carbon copy Bond
Summary: 3 Stars
The James Bond craze of the 1960s sent studios scurrying to secure the rights to other literary secret agents and detectives, and alter them to fit the successful 007 formula. Novelist H. C. McNeile's creation "Bulldog Drummond" was showcased in numerous mystery films in the '20s and '30s; for this 1966 spy movie, however, the urbane sleuth was reconfigured into a carbon copy of Bond.
Like the Bond films, there's a strong (and welcome) emphasis on female villainy, represented here in the shape-make that shapes-of blonde Elke Sommer and brunette Sylvia Koscina. They're stunning and, as such, the primary reasons to sit through this run-of-the-mill rehash of the kind of spy movie clich?s that Mike Myers has made a cottage industry out of satirizing.
DVD Review: Bond copy
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of several movies that cashed in on the Bond craze. This particular one is the worst of the copies. The low budget limits the exotic location shots and make the story very slow and dragging. There are none of the artistic photographic angles and effects common in the Bond films. It is about an insurance investigator who is looking into organized crime. The plot is totally devoid of any imagination or surprises. The one unusual feature is that some of the gratuitous violence is done by women who appear to be bored with their violent work. The women and their clothes were very flashy by standards of 40 years ago, but will have no romantic effects on healthy men of today. Notice how the women piled their hair on top of their head and then wrapped a turban around it.
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