| 03-19-1966 | "How to Succeed .... at Murder" |
Angela Browne as the ruthless assassin "Sara Penny..."
A middle-aged businessman thinks he has a hot date with a Pretty Young Thing...
He eyes her eagerly while she slips off a nylon...
She then teases him with her legging...
Playfully tossing it around his neck...
Drawing him close to her...
For what he thinks is a kiss...
But she instead strangles him to
death...
A dashing Lothario snuggles
unwittingly snuggles with Sara, assuming she has love on her mind...
He admires a tiny gun on her charm
bracelet...
And doesn't believe her when she
says it works, but she fires it...
Hitting him in the face with a poison dart...
He slumps dead on her lap...
Love
indeed...
Sara demonstrates her
deadly strangling technique...
On the willing subject, Henry...
Mrs. Peel gets in on the action...
(Henry loves it! All the Girls strangle him!)
Later she tangles with Steed...
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A seminal role in Media Mythology... The 50s offered Alien Planets Ruled By Women, the 60s All-FEmale Organizations bent on usurping the Male Power Structure, with both scenarios hyperbolic takes on The Battle of The Sexes, pitting Powerful WOmen against Overwhelmed Men... Deadlier Than The Male essentially copies this plot, with Viciously Seductive Assassins murdering men to take over businesses... The stark portrayal of remorse-less Murderesses is jarring upon first viewing, with a further perversion being that the Femmes are actually guided by a man, Henry, who impersonates his dead wife while appearing to be a lowly chump... Thus, Henry lives out his FetishFantasies of being a subordinated man to Powerful WOmen while actually being in control, which of course, is the essential nature of all Male FemmeFetishFantasies... |
Anne Cunningham as a seemingly pleasant secretary...
Just another day at the office...