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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Title: The Silencers (1966)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dean Martin | ... | Matt Helm | |
| Stella Stevens | ... | Gail Hendricks | |
| Daliah Lavi | ... | Tina | |
| Victor Buono | ... | Tung-Tze | |
| Arthur O'Connell | ... | Joe Wigman | |
| Robert Webber | ... | Sam Gunther | |
| James Gregory | ... | MacDonald | |
| Nancy Kovack | ... | Barbara | |
| Roger C. Carmel | ... | Andreyev | |
| Cyd Charisse | ... | Sarita | |
| Beverly Adams | ... | Lovey Kravezit | |
| Richard Devon | ... | Domino | |
| David Bond | ... | Dr. Naldi | |
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John Reach | ... | Traynor (scenes deleted) |
| Robert Phillips | ... | 1st Armed Man | |
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In this, the first Matt Helm movie, we see Matt Helm coaxed out of semi-retirement by an attractive ex-partner. It seems that the evil Big O organization has a nefarious plan called "Operation: Fallout." If this plan comes to fruition, Big O will explode an atomic bomb over Alamogordo, NM, and start WWIII. Only Matt Helm can stop them. Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
16 March 1966 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$3,500,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$16,318,124, 31 December 1966Company Credits
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Music by Iosif Ivanovici, arranged by Saul Chaplin, lyrics by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
Parody lyrics by Herbert Baker
Sung by Dean Martin
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In the scene where Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is checking into the Phoenix Hotel and Andreyev (Roger C. Carmel) is lurking in the foreground, the hotel newsstand is immediately behind him. The newsstand shelf is lined with books from Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series, on which the movie is based. See more »Goofs
Lovey is seen to be wearing a bra after she has supposedly climbed naked from the bath, been dried and then had a bathrobe placed on her. See more »Crazy Credits
Coming up next Matt Helm meets Lovey Kravezit in Murderers' Row See more »Soundtracks
Anniversary SongMusic by Iosif Ivanovici, arranged by Saul Chaplin, lyrics by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
Parody lyrics by Herbert Baker
Sung by Dean Martin
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The Silencers was ostensively based on Donald Hamilton's novel featuring government assassin Matt Helm. Perhaps unfortunately, they took little more than the name of the title character and a few other characters from Hamilton's novel. In Hamilton's books Helm was a government assassin (code name: Eric) working for an unnamed government agency, who had a stronger resemblance to Sam Spade or Mike Hammer than James Bond. He was of Scandinavian descent and made a living writing Westerns between his service in WW II as a secret agent and his reactivation as such in the first novel (Death of a Citizen). I can imagine the surprise of fans of the novels when this movie came out! No hard nosed government assassin, Matt Helm in the movie is little more than Dean Martin doing his usual Dean Martin routine!
That having been said, I can't help liking the film. True, it's not Hamilton's Matt Helm, but it is a bit of Sixties camp that can be enjoyed on its own merits. The Dean Martin persona seems perfectly fitted for a poor man's "James Bond" and Stella Stevens is simply adorable. Probably my biggest complaint with the movie is the music, which is almost annoying. True, The Silencers is not a classic in the espionage genre (it's not even a classic in Bondian espionage genre), but it is a fun way to waste one's time.