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The Silencers: Directed by Phil Karlson. With Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi, Victor Buono. Retired agent Matt Helm is re-activated in order to stop an evil organization from exploding an atom bomb over the USA and starting WWIII.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Phil Karlson
- 1966-03-16
The Silencers is a 1966 American spy comedy film directed by Phil Karlson, starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. The screenplay by Oscar Saul is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Donald Hamilton, while also adapting elements of Hamilton's first Helm novel, Death of a Citizen (1960).
- Introduction
- The Silencers
- Review
- Murderer’S Row
- The Ambushers
- The Wrecking Crew
- Conclusion
In the mid-1960s everybody in Hollywood wanted in on the spy game. This was thanks to the runaway success of the Broccoli/Salzman-produced James Bond franchise. Columbia Pictures was no exception with their entry into the genre being the Matt Helmseries starring Dean Martin in a spoof of the spy genre of the day. Dean Martin made four films in all ...
Behind the Scenes
In 1964, producer Irving Allen was kicking himself because of missed opportunities. A few years earlier Allen had been Albert “Cubby” Broccoli’s business partner and had thought Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels were terrible with no cinematic value. Allen and Broccoli parted ways with the latter having great success with his adaptations of Fleming’s spy novels. The former was filled with thoughts of regret. To compensate for and rectify his mistakes, Allen purchased the rights to the Matt Helm...
The Silencers(and the other films in the Matt Helm series) are inappropriate by today’s standards. Let’s face it, They were inappropriate back then too. Nevertheless, that doesn’t stop them from being a lot of fun, if you leave your brain and modern sensibilities at the door. Make no mistake, The Silencersis by no means a good movie. However, it is...
Behind the Scenes
After the success of The Silencers, Columbia rushed a sequel, Murderer’s Row, into production. Loosely based on the Donald Hamilton novel of the same name, Allen once again turned to Oscar Saul and Herbert Baker for scripting duties. With a larger budget, the production planned on shooting the entire film on location, in Europe. However, when Martin refused to go, the idea was scrapped. Instead, a second unit crew traveled to Monte Carlo and the Isle of Wight to shoot footage that would inter...
Behind the Scenes
The Ambushers was a film that was rushed into production following the box office hit status of Murderer’s Row. It was loosely based on the Donald Hamilton novel of the same name. Much of the crew was brought back from the previous film, including screenwriter Herbert Baker as well as director Henry Levin. One notable exception is that the soundtrack was composed by the man who wrote the iconic I Dream of Jeannietheme song, Hugh Montenegro. Baker also contributed to the soundtrack by composin...
Behind the Scenes
The Wrecking Crew is arguably the most “Hollywood” film in the Matt Helm series for a number of behind-the-scenes reasons. The biggest of these is that the exterior of the Owlwood Estatewas used for the home of the villainous Count Contini. At the time this was the home of actor Tony Curtis, who would sell it to Sonny and Cher a few years later. Another “Hollywood” aspect was who was hired to work on the martial arts aspects of the film. Bruce Lee was brought on as martial arts advisor, speci...
The Matt Helm series featuring Dean Martin is a strange and fun-filled romp through the second half of the 1960s. You can see the evolution of Hollywood production and cultural styles in each film. Further, you can also see the influence this film series had on the James Bond franchise which lifted scenes and plot elements, nearly exactly, from the...
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Silencers, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I Haven't Seen All Latest Models Fleeing an Acapulco night-club assassination, Matt Helm (Dean Martin) and Tina (Daliah Lavi) hustle back to the hotel to interrogate Gail (Stella Stevens) who turns out to be wearing a tear-away dress, in The Silencers, 1966.
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Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
