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,
House of the Tragic Poet of many works of fiction and poetry. Among the more famous works is Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii", in which the author invents the personal life of the owner, Glaucus, but accurately describes the house's details. "In the Redness of Dawn" by author Waldemar Kaden depicts the house as being inhabited by a Christian man named Gaius Sabinus. Another well-known work is Vladimir Janovic's "The House of the Tragic Poet", an epic poem based on images from the mosaic and fresco images throughout the villa. Art historians and Classics scholars have long been fascinated by the