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{{About|the 1969 film|the Lee Aaron album|Some Girls Do (album)|the Sawyer Brown song|Some Girls Do (song)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Some Girls Do
| image = Some Girls Do - UK film poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = UK cinema quad poster
| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
| producer = [[Betty E. Box]]
| writer = David D. Osborn Liz Charles-Williams
| based_on = {{based on|[[Bulldog Drummond]]|[[H.C. McNeile|Sapper]] [[Gerard Fairlie]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = [[Richard Johnson (actor)|Richard Johnson]] [[Daliah Lavi]] [[Beba Lončar]] [[James Villiers]] [[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] [[Vanessa Howard]] [[Maurice Denham]] [[Sydne Rome]] [[Virginia North]] [[Robert Morley]]
| music = [[Charles Blackwell (music producer)|Charles Blackwell]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]
| editing = Ernest Hosler
| studio = [[The Rank Organisation]] Ashdown Film Productions/[[Pinewood Studios]]
| distributor = [[The Rank Organisation|J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1969|1|23|UK|1971|2|10|NYC|}}
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}
'''''Some Girls Do''''' is a 1969 British [[comedy film|comedy]] [[spy film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]]. It was the second of the revamped [[Bulldog Drummond]] films (following 1967's ''[[Deadlier Than the Male]]'') starring [[Richard Johnson (actor)|Richard Johnson]] as Drummond, made following the success of the [[James Bond]] films of the 1960s.{{#tag:ref|Johnson was the original choice for the role of James Bond.<ref>[https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2020/04/03/some-girls-do-1969/ "Profile: 'Some Girls Do (1969)'."] ''bandsaboutmovies''. 3 April 3, 2020.</ref> |group=Note}} ''Some Girls Do'' even featured a white Aston Martin DB5, the same marque used by Bond.

==Plot==

A series of inexplicable accidents befall the development of the world's first [[supersonic]] [[airliner]], the SST1 – a man falls victim to a homicidal air stewardess (an uncredited [[Maria Aitken]]) and two women ([[Yutte Stensgaard]] and an uncredited [[Joanna Lumley]]) perform separate acts of sabotage during tests. The Air Ministry calls on Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond ([[Richard Johnson (actor)|Richard Johnson]]) to investigate.

Aided by ditzy American blonde Flicky ([[Sydne Rome]]), Drummond uncovers a plot by criminal mastermind Carl Petersen ([[James Villiers]]), who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date. Petersen, assisted by beautiful but deadly assassins Helga ([[Daliah Lavi]]) and Pandora ([[Beba Lončar]]), has developed a number of robots: beautiful girls with electronic brains to help him sabotage the SST1 project by means of [[infrasound]] (sound waves with too low frequency to be detected by the human ear) which can be directed at people or objects with devastating results.

After the initial sabotage attacks by Peterson's robots, Helga and Pandora begin systematically murdering various people associated with the SSTI, such as engineer Dudley Mortimer ([[Maurice Denham]]) and Miss Mary ([[Robert Morley]]), a spy who runs a cooking class as a front for his activities. Helga makes contact with Drummond at a shooting party, and attempts to kill him by planting a bomb in his telephone after sleeping with him. Then Helga and Pandora try to kill Drummond again by crashing into his glider. The ripcord from his parachute was sabotaged but Drummond manages to manually open his parachute and escape death.

The trail leads Drummond to North Africa, following up on a lead on an infrasound-powered powerboat, where he is assisted by Peregrine Carruthers ([[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]]) from the British Embassy. Pandora kills the boat owner with a miniature infrasound device, but is thwarted in her attempt to steal the boat. Drummond and Peregrine decide to drive the powerboat in a scheduled race: Helga and Pandora also participate in the race and successfully capture the men and the boat, delivering them all to Petersen at his island headquarters, staffed by an army of his female robots, including the defective but endearing No. 7 ([[Vanessa Howard]]). Drummond and Peregrine are also reunited with Flicky, who has successfully infiltrated Petersen's organisation.

Over dinner, Petersen reveals the full details of his plan to use infrasound technology to sabotage the SST1's maiden flight. That night, Drummond sleeps with Helga once more, while Pandora contents herself with seducing Peregrine. In the morning, Drummond attempts to retrieve the infrasound powerboat and is met by Flicky, who tells him she is actually a CIA agent assigned to help him. They are caught by Helga – Drummond escapes but Helga holds Flicky at gunpoint. Petersen sends his robots to search the island for the runaway agent – Drummond is cornered by No. 7, but to his surprise, she deliberately chooses not to reveal his location.

Peregrine and Flicky are held hostage in Petersen's control room and are forced to witness the SST1's destruction as he puts his plan into action. Drummond scales the wall of Petersen's hideout, and saves the SST1 from destruction by using Petersen's infrasound waves against him, destroying his control room. Petersen, Pandora and Helga are all apparently killed in the explosion.

Drummond, Flicky, Peregrine and No. 7 escape the subsequent mayhem, having retrieved the infrasound device. Flicky reveals herself to be a double agent working for the Russians and escapes on the powerboat with the device. Peregrine, wanting to improve his Russian relations, decides to go with her. As the base finally explodes, Drummond finds comfort in the arms of the beautiful No. 7, who turns out not to be a robot after all.

==Cast==

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* [[Richard Johnson (actor)|Richard Johnson]] as Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
* [[Daliah Lavi]] as Baroness Helga Hagen
* [[Beba Lončar]] as Pandora
* [[James Villiers]] as Carl Petersen
* [[Vanessa Howard]] as Robot No. 7
* [[Maurice Denham]] as Dudley Mortimer
* [[Robert Morley]] as Miss Mary
* [[Sydne Rome]] as Flicky
* [[Ronnie Stevens (actor)|Ronnie Stevens]] as Peregrine Carruthers
* [[Virginia North]] as Robot No. 9
* [[Adrienne Posta]] as Drummond's Daily
* [[Florence Desmond]] as Lady Manderley
* [[Nicholas Phipps]] as Lord Dunburry
* [[Yutte Stensgaard]] as Robot No. 1
* [[George Belbin]] as Major Newman
* [[Richard Hurndall]] as President of Aircraft Company
* [[Marga Roche]] as Birgit
* [[Douglas Sheldon]] as Kruger
* [[Joanna Lumley]] as Robot No. 2 (uncredited)
* [[Maria Aitken]] as Flight attendant (uncredited)
* [[Shakira Caine]] as Robot Observer (uncredited)
* [[Johnny Briggs (actor)|Johnny Briggs]] as Air traffic controller (uncredited)
* Dora Graham as Robot Twin (uncredited)
* Doris Graham as Robot Twin (uncredited)
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==Production==
Filming began May 1968 and took place mainly in Spain.<ref>Martin, Betty. "Movie Call Sheet: Irreverent Views of the U.S." ''Los Angeles Times'', 1 March 1968. p. c15.</ref> One of the British filming locations was the National Gas Turbine Establishment at Farnborough. It was known as "Pyestock". The locale doubled for the British Atomic plant where the engines and wind tunnel models of the fictional SST1 were being tested. Wycombe Air Park was also used as a location in the film for the glider sequence.<ref>[https://www.britmovie.co.uk/forum/projection-room/film-locations/60323-some-girls-do-1969 "Forum: 'Some Girls Do'."] ''Britmovie.co'', 6 August 2018.</ref>

[[Joanna Lumley]], who appears uncredited as one of Petersen's female robots in the film, was also working on the set of ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' at the same time, as both films were produced at [[Pinewood Studios]]. [[Virginia North]] also worked on both films simultaneously.

==Reception==
The contemporary review in ''[[The New York Times]]'' was especially scathing, calling ''Some Girls Do'' an "... addlepated distant cousin of James Bond... Richard Johnson, (stars as) the glum Drummond of this mishmash of an intrigue ...<ref>Weiler, A. H. [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/11/archives/some-girls-do-arrives-at-the-victoria.html "Some Girls Do' Arrives at the Victoria."] ''The New York Times'', 11 February 1971.</ref> Reviewer Leslie Halliwell dismissed the film as an "... abysmal spoof melodrama in the swinging 60s mould; a travesty of a famous character."<ref>Halliwell 1977, p. 937.</ref>

==See also==
* [[James Bond parodies]]

==References==
===Notes===
{{Reflist|group=Note}}

===Citations===
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book | last=Halliwell | first=Leslie | title=Halliwell's film guide : a survey of 8,000 English-language movies | publisher=Granada Pub | publication-place=London | date=1977 | isbn=0-246-10982-3 | oclc=3456134}}
{{Refend}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0065009}}
*[http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b660fa0 ''Some Girls Do''] at ''BFI''
*[http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Some-Girls-Do_1968 ''Some Girls Do''] at ''Britmovie''
*[https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00E1DB163BE53BBC4952DFB466838A669EDE "Review of film".] at ''[[New York Times|The New York Times]]''
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