Deadlier Than the Male
Cast & Crew
Ralph Thomas
Richard Johnson
Elke Sommer
Sylva Koscina
Nigel Green
Suzanna Leigh
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London, is sent to investigate the mysterious deaths of two oil company magnates. Behind the murders are Irma Eckman and her assistant, Penelope, who work for Carl Petersen, the head of a syndicate that arranges for major business deals through devious means. A servant of one of the murdered men brings Drummond part of a taped message, but Drummond is unable to decipher it. Following two attempts on his life, he attends a meeting at the Pan-Arabian Oil Company, where Irma, representing an unknown oil company, offers to sell the oil rights of the Kingdom of Akmata for a substantial fee. At the meeting, an executive unwittingly provides Drummond with a clue to the tape when he states that the only way to obtain oil concessions from Akmata is to kill the young king, Fedra. Drummond, now suspicious of Irma, follows her home after the meeting is adjourned and discovers that Robert, his nephew who has arrived from the United States for a visit, has been bound and tortured by Penelope. Convinced that Fedra, who turns out to be one of Robert's university friends, is the next victim, Drummond joins Robert and Fedra on a Mediterranean cruise. While on board the boat, Drummond receives an invitation to visit an ancient castle which he believes holds the answer to the mysterious murders. There he meets Irma, Penelope, and other women who are members of an assassination ring headed by Petersen. Although Drummond seems trapped, he manages to outwit Petersen and thwart his plan to kill Fedra; the assassins are killed when their boat explodes.
Director
Ralph Thomas
Cast
Richard Johnson
Elke Sommer
Sylva Koscina
Nigel Green
Suzanna Leigh
Steve Carlson
Virginia North
Justine Lord
Leonard Rossiter
Laurence Naismith
Zia Mohyeddin
Lee Montague
Milton Reid
Yasuko Nagazumi
Didi Sydow
George Pastell
Dervis Ward
John Stone
William Mervyn
Crew
James Bawden
Betty E. Box
Sydney Box
Rita Burgess
Yvonne Caffin
Liz Charles-williams
Ted Clements
Jack Cook
J. W. N. Daniel
Scott Engel
John Franz
Jack Gardner
Giorgio Gentili
Gladys Goldsmith
Reg Hall
Bernard Hanson
Terry Hill
John Hilling
Allan James
John Jay
Betty Knight
Malcolm Lockyer
Gordon K. Mccallum
Dudley Messenger
Pat Moore
Jim Morahan
John Morgan
Charles Bruce Newbery
Patrick O'brien
Maud Onslow
David Osborn
Rank Organisation
Eric Rattray
Simon Relph
Geoffrey Rodway
Alfred Roome
Jimmy Sangster
Jimmy Sangster
Don Sharpe
Michael Smith
Ken Softley
Ernest Steward
Helen Thomas
Cynthia Tingey
Alex Vetchinsky
Bill Walpole
Kit West
John Wilcox
Giorgio Zambon
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in London in December 1966.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter February 21, 1967
Techniscope
Released in United States Winter February 21, 1967
