Deadlier Than the Male

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Deadlier Than the Male ★★ 1967

In this swinging '60s update on the '20s British hero, Bulldog Drummond (Johnson) is now a suave London insurance investigator after industrialist Carl Petersen (Green). It seems Petersen uses his own sexy assassins, Irma (Sommer) and Penelope (Koscina), to get rid of business partners and the competition. Gadgetry, exotic locations, and bikinied babes in a James Bond knockoff. 95m/C VHS, DVD . GB Richard Johnson, Nigel Green, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Suzanna Leigh, Steve Carlson; D: Ralph Thomas; W: Jimmy Sangster, Liz Charles-Williams, David Osborn; C: Ernest Steward; M: Malcolm Lockyer.