ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

If you like secret agents, hi-tech gadgets, and sexy ladies, here's 93 minutes of pure delight.

Don't be fooled by the trite title, this is an action-packed, tongue-in-cheek sequel to the 1966 British hit "Deadlier than the Male". The famous 1920s/1930s/1940s/1950s detective, Bulldog Drummond, is refashioned and re-equipped for the 1960's as a super-spy in the Bond tradition.

He's given a worthy villain (James Villiers) who creates a squad of sexy robot ladies which he sends on seduce-and-destroy missions as part of his plan to extort a fortune from the British government by threatening their experimental supersonic aircraft.





The mechanical beauties are armed with numerous weapons of the makeup-case-turned-laser-gun variety, and of course the girl's "natural" armament is displayed liberally.

Admittedly Richard Johnson is no Sean Connery, but the women in the cast leave nothing to be desired (or, in another sense, just the reverse).

Robert Morely's all-too-brief appearance as a typically over-refined Englishman is a hysterical joke played on Britains by Britains. The gorgeous killer ladies are played by Daliah Lavi ("The Silencers"), Beba Lonear, Sydne Rome, and Virginia North.

Directed by Ralph Thomas.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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If you're like to get a taste of what this movie is like, here's the trailer.



But if you want to skip the appetizer and go right to the main course, here's the whole movie. Good old Youtube. Ya gotta love it, eh?


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[scotpens]

I figure any movie with a title like "Some Girls Do" and produced by someone named Betty Box has to be worth watching.

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
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~ Richard Johnson was offered the role of 007 first for the original Bond movie "Dr. No" but turned it down — thus opening the door for Sean Connery.

Note from me: Mr. Johnson undoubtedly regrets his decision to turn down the Bond role, but if he'd accepted it and the public had not react to him the way we did to Connery, the Bond franchise might have fizzled out after the first few movies!

~ This movie and the first "Bulldog Drummond" film in this series, Deadlier Than the Male (1967), have both been released together as a double feature on DVD.

Note from me: I love the Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummund movies from the 1940s — a wealthy gentlemen who loved getting involved in foreign intrigue with his loyal butler, Tenney (short for Tenneyson), played by E.E. Clive — the British policemen in The Invisible Man who says, "How do handcuff a bloomin' shirt!" in the humorous scene from that classic movie.

TCM has often aired the series of films, in which Drummond is played beautifully by John Howard in most of the movies. But he's also been played by Ray Milland, Walter Pidgeon, and Ronald Colman in three of the movies.

~ Hugh Drummond is never called Bulldog in this movie.

Note from me: Although Bulldog Drummond truly was the James Bond of the 1930s and 1940s, it was a mistake for filmmakers to hope they could revive the character as a Bond-like hero in the 1960s.

Drummond was a true English gentleman who proudly worked for NO government agency, and he only got involved in international intrigue when he was lured in by the thrill of adventure.

In most of the movies he was assisted by this loyal and fearless butler, Tenney — played by veteran actor E.E. Clive, who was never a "comic relief". In fact, this prim-and-proper butler was more like a humble father-figure who guarded his young employer from harm, sometimes at peril to his own life!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)