Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
For Hire: Deadly Weapons!
Genre : Action, Comedy, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Ralph Thomas
Writer : Jimmy Sangster, David D. Osborn, Liz Charles-Williams
Synopsis
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
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