Monday, June 27, 2016

Jun 26th
Deadlier Than the Male

(GB 1966)                        

Insurance investigator Hugh Drummond hunts down a criminal mastermind who is using beautiful female assassins to kill rivals.
Absurdly oversexed Bulldog Drummond for the James Bond era, where the central character fights to get himself noticed amid all the high camp. Enjoyable enough as a trashy Swinging Sixties kaleidoscope.

Written by: Jimmy Sangster, David Osborn, Liz Charles Williams.
Producer: Betty E. Box.
Director: Ralph Thomas.
Starring: Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Nigel Green, Laurence Naismith, Suzanna Keigh, Zia Mohyeddin, Steve Carlson, Leonard Rossiter, Milton Reid.
Photography: Ernest Steward.
Music: Malcolm Lockyer (title song sung by the Walker Brothers).
Production Design: Alex Vetchinsky.

Preceded by:
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest*
(US 1908. 6m. bw. silent; d: J. Searle Dawley; s: D.W. Griffith, Henry B. Walthall; ph: Edwin S. Porter.)

Midsummer Night's Dream*
(US 1909. 11m. bw. silent; Sparse but charmingly inventine incidental version of some scenes from Shakespeare's play.; d: Charles Kent, J. Stewart Blackton.)


RESCUED FROM AN EAGLE'S NEST (1908). A rare on-screen role for David Wark Griffith, before he soon became much more famous behind the camera.



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