Deadlier Than the Male intrigue when he comes to visit. The title is a reference to the 1911 Rudyard Kipling poem "The Female of the Species," which includes the line, "The female of the species must be deadlier than the male", and also refers to Sapper's earlier Drummond book, "The Female of the Species". The working title of the film was "The Female of the Species". "Deadlier Than the Male", the song featured in the film`s opening credit sequence, was performed by the Walker Brothers. Filmed in Technicolor and Techniscope, portions of the film were shot in Lerici, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. A sequel,
The Female Spectator as possible". A poem by an anonymous male author in "The Gentleman's Magazine" in December 1944 praising the Female Spectator suggests that it was indeed read by some men. "The Female Spectator" was loosely modelled on "The Spectator" by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. But instead of a narrator gathering news about town and pontificating about politics, foreign affairs, art, and criticism, it focused on issues of interest to women. To do this it employed four characters. Firstly was the eponymous "Female Spectator" who shares the benefits of her lifetime experience with the aid of three assistants representing the three