Deadlier Than the Male (song) Deadlier Than the Male (song) "Deadlier Than the Male" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Scott Walker under the name Scott Engel with UK record producer Johnny Franz. The song was first recorded and released by Walker's pop group The Walker Brothers as their eighth single in 1966. The accompaniment was directed by Reg Guest. The song was the title track for the 1967 British action film "Deadlier Than the Male" which featured the character of Bulldog Drummond. The song's title is a reference to the 1911 Rudyard Kipling poem "The Female of the Species," which includes the line,
War poet War was beginning, American poet Walt Whitman published his poem "" as a patriotic rally call for the North. Whitman volunteered for a time as a nurse in the army hospitals, and his collection "Drum-Taps" (1865) deals with his experiences during the War. Georg Herwegh who wrote during the German revolutions of 1848–49 is an example of a nineteenth century German war poet. Probably the most famous nineteenth century war poem is Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which he supposedly wrote in only a few minutes after reading an account of the battle in "The Times". As poet