From the director of Hot Enough For June, and Hammer Horror alum writer Jimmy Sangster comes the twenty-third film in the Bulldog Drummond series, a character (and series) you've likely never heard of unless you're a die-hard fan of the films and novels that date back to the 1920's.

Deadlier Than The Male features a cast of very lovely assassins played by two well known cult international actresses Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina. They are apart of an organization headed by Carl Petersen (the Drummond series version of Blofeld) played by Nigel Green. Petersen uses his vast array of beautiful and deadly women to create for himself a personal fortune. This is done by having them kill those in key positions of corporations and then reaping the financial rewards whether it be collecting a fee from their competitors for removing some competition or intentionally benefiting from the company's stock plummeting. Drummond becomes a target when Petersen begins pulling the strings of an oil company that his firm insures.

At first glance Deadlier Than The Male might seem like a glorified James Bond ripoff, the suave Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, whose actually an insurance investigator (in this film) not a secret agent, a cast of extremely lovely (and deadly) ladies, and an over-the-top mastermind villain. I would hasten to guess the writers of this modern take of the series definitely took some inspiration from the first four Bond films as there are too many similarities for them to have not. With that said you'd probably be surprised to learn that Bond may have actually been inspired by the original Drummond novels, as its said James Bond author Ian Fleming was an avid reader of them in his childhood. So while this film version might have taken some pages from the Bond films to draw audiences, a valid case could be made that without the existence of Hugh Drummond, James Bond may have never been!