Matt Helm: The Silencers
Matt Helm Shoots the Works and Saves the World!
Take one shot of danger, two splashes of action and a twist of comedy and add a generous portion of screen legend Dean Martin to the mix and you've got The Silencers, a stylishly sexy adventure in the tradition of James Bond.
It's up to secret agent Matt Helm (Martin) to save the day when mascared megalomaniac Victor Bruno (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) and his dastardly organization, Big O, plot to sabotage America's atomic missile system. From deep inside Big O's subterranean hideout to a perilous mountainside car chase to groovy designer bedrooms filled with booby traps, Helm braves blistering showers of bullets, knives and laser beams to make the world a save place again. Helping his cause is a bevy of beauties including Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure) and double agent Daliah Lavi (Casino Royale). In addition to its arsenal of high-tech gadgets and outrageous costumes, The Silencers features an amazing opening sequence starring Cyd Charisse (Singin' in the Rain) and a cocktail-era soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein with vocals by Martin, Charisse and Vikki Carr.
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Everybody loves somebody sometimes - Chucky
Ha, a fun waste of time. As usual, the 1960's pizazz and dancing girls covered in pompoms and that famous round bed that dumps Helm into his heated pool thats full of foam bath and usyally is eqiped with some buxom babe or other. If secret agents were like Dean Martin's portrayel of the super spy, no wonder we came through the cold war without a scratch--The intelligece community was too busy chasing skirts and drinking themselves stupid to worry about nuclear war lol. Fun if your nostalgicMatt Helm - lilduke
This was the first Matt Helm movie I've seen and it will be the last. Watching this film one can see where Mike Myers got his inspiration for Austin Powers. This was supposed to be America's response to James Bond. James Bond had an Aston Martin, Matt Helm had a station wagon. Nuff said.Avoid the sequels - Superdave
Matt Helm creator Donald Hamilton has recently been receiving some well-deserved plaudits from critics as one of the more influential noir stylists with his crisp efficient descriptive writing and no-nonsense dialog. The second most famous spy series of the 60s has Don Hamilton's tough guy secret agent transformed into, well, Dean Martin, a boozing womanizer who saves the world between martinis. This first movie holds up surprisingly well as a swinging spy period piece and obvious progenitor of many later Austin Powers gags, and is fun to watch in that context. On its own merits it is a rather derivative spy adventure which lacks the masculine authenticity of Hamilton's books, but then it WAS being played mostly for laughs...
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Everybody loves somebody sometimes - Chucky
Ha, a fun waste of time. As usual, the 1960's pizazz and dancing girls covered in pompoms and that famous round bed that dumps Helm into his heated pool thats full of foam bath and usyally is eqiped with some buxom babe or other. If secret agents were like ...Matt Helm - lilduke
This was the first Matt Helm movie I've seen and it will be the last. Watching this film one can see where Mike Myers got his inspiration for Austin Powers. This was supposed to be America's response to James Bond. James Bond had an Aston Martin, Matt Helm ...Avoid the sequels - Superdave
Matt Helm creator Donald Hamilton has recently been receiving some well-deserved plaudits from critics as one of the more influential noir stylists with his crisp efficient descriptive writing and no-nonsense dialog. The second most famous spy series of the ...