Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

rodrig58 Women are indeed more dangerous than men, I know it from my own experience. Sylva Koscina (34 years old when the film was made) and Elke Sommer (27 years old when the film was made) lookalike two Amazons-sirens just came out of the sea and you don't know what is more dangerous, their personal charms or their deadly harpoons. Also, who's cigars smoker, would do well to check that smoke from now, lest to shoot himself tugging fumes, because Elke Sommer is still alive. Very entertaining action movie, I've seen it many times and I'm always watching it again with great pleasure.

Leofwine_draca An affectionate alternatively to the popular Sean Connery-starring Bond films of the 1960s, DEADLIER THAN THE MALE takes the literary character Bulldog Drummond and turns him to a suave, handsome British playboy while eliminating the racism that marked the original stories. Indeed this is a film clearly modelled on the Bond template, with a chief villain, some highly memorable henchmen (or henchwomen in this case), exotic and sun-drenched locales, and plenty of action to propel what is a tight, two-fisted narrative.The most surprising thing is that this is actually better than some of the Connery Bonds! It's certainly more entertaining than the likes of the dreary DR NO and the overlong THUNDERBALL and it comes close to reaching the heights of my favourite '60s spy film, the classic GOLDFINGER. It's also fair to say that Richard Johnson (ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) is a far better actor playing Drummond than Connery was playing Bond, and it's a shame Johnson missed out on the big role. Still, at least we have him here and in this film's sequel, the less successful SOME GIRLS DO.The film looks and feels fun and colourful and a witty and intelligent screenplay from Hammer scribe Jimmy Sangster is responsible for the sparkling dialogue. Despite the fun and hijinks, it also has a dark edge, with some fairly violent moments that usually come courtesy of the (male) assassins sent to dispatch Johnson. A brawl in an underground car park is a highlight (and far better than in the film that ripped it off, TOMORROW NEVER DIES) as are the fights with hulking muscleman Milton Reid.As the title implies, in the end this is a film all about the women – and lovely they are too. Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina, two Euro-beauties who dominated the screen in the '60s and '70s, have a ball as the pair of intelligent, charming and very beautiful female assassins who you can't help but love even when they're blowing people up with exploding cigars and harpooning the good guys. It helps that they wear very little, too. Hammer starlet Suzanna Leigh (LUST FOR A VAMPIRE) pops up towards the end as another memorable beauty while Nigel Green (THE FACE OF FU MANCHU) has fun playing the bad guy for a change. Add in cameos from Leonard Rossiter, George Pastell, and UK TV actor George Sewell. Comedy director Ralph Thomas isn't the first person you'd pick to helm a film like this, but he turns out to be the perfect choice, providing just the right blend of thrills, spills, camp and smoothness. The excellent idea of having a life-size chess set was later stolen by HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.

JohnHowardReid This attempt to revive Sapper's hero, Bulldog Drummond, as a modern-day James Bond, does not really come off – mainly because the direction by journeyman, Ralph Thomas, is nowhere near slick enough. In fact even the editing – no doubt carried out under Thomas's supervision – is far too slack. At least the ladies of the cast, led by those two super-lovelies, Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina, come right up to the Bond standard. The Technicolor photography is equally attractive and also on the credit side, it must be admitted that the screenplay does have a couple of ingenious touches. I particularly liked the electronic chessmen. But, as implied above, 98 minutes is far too long to keep one's attention fully engaged. When the pace slackens – as it often does – interest drops. Available on a Network DVD.

gridoon This above-average Bond knockoff deserves to be better known. It's too imitative of the Bond pictures of the time (especially "Thunderball" - minus the underwater scenes), and the plot slows down at times, but Elke Sommer and Sylva Koscina make a terrific pair of sexy, teasing assassins (with Sommer being the sexier one and Koscina the more teasing one). Nigel Green also makes a smooth villain (although he should have hired more guards!). This picture should become more widely available, because although it's not perfect, it's much better than, say, the atrocious pseudo-spoof "Our Man Flint". (**1/2)