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Deadlier than the Male
Richard Johnson is Bulldog Drummond, a freelance investigator who attracts the attention of a pair of deadly female assassins, played by Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina.
Director: Ralph Thomas
Overview
Richard Johnson resurrects the character of vintage adventurer Bulldog Drummond, a former soldier and freelance fixer whoβs hired to investigate a corrupt industrialist and his troublesome cohorts, a pair of deadly female assassins (played by Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina).
Originally a hit spy series in the 1920s and 1930s (in print and on film), Drummond was revived in the wake of the success of the James Bond series, for this and a further β60s escapade, Some Girls Do.
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