IMDb RATING
6.1/10
3.1K
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
3.1K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Donald Hamilton(novels "The Silencers" and "Death of a Citizen")
- Oscar Saul(screenplay)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Donald Hamilton(novels "The Silencers" and "Death of a Citizen")
- Oscar Saul(screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 2 nominations
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- Traynoras Traynor
- (scenes deleted)
- Director
- Writers
- Donald Hamilton(novels "The Silencers" and "Death of a Citizen")
- Oscar Saul(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
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. —Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
- Taglines
- Follow Matt Helm secret agent from bedroom to bedlam with guns, girls and dynamite!
- Genres
- Certificate
- PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough one of the greatest female dancers in the history of the movie musical, Cyd Charisse singing in films was almost always dubbed. A young Vikki Carr performed her singing in The Silencers (1966).
- GoofsLovey 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.
- Quotes
Gail Hendrix: I want some music.
[Gail turns on car radio, Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" plays]
Matt Helm: Oh, turn him off, he's terrible!
[Gail changes the station, Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" plays]
Matt Helm: Now there's a guy that can sing!
- Crazy creditsComing up next Matt Helm meets Lovey Kravezit in Murderers' Row
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Obsession of Billy Botski (1980)
- SoundtracksThe Silencers
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Lyrics by Mack David
Performed by Cyd Charisse (dubbed by Vikki Carr)
Top review
"It happened down in Santiago..."
I recently bought the DVD, and I forgot how much fun it was. It's not rocket science at all, and one could argue that even as an obvious spy spoof (in the best Bond and Flint traditions) it hiccups a bit throughout its own pretensions: Dean Martin's photographer-as-spy is properly cool, but there's a fine line between being laid-back and appearing to sleep on camera. (I could also say something about a modern audience being more than a bit startled at the immense objectifying of women throughout the whole film, but society is currently enjoying a renaissance of all things politically INcorrect and telling the rest of us to shut up- so I'll shut up.) Martin's female co-stars are all a smörgåsbord of beauty and sex appeal- every last one of them, but the one who seems to have emerged with the strongest impression is Stella Stevens' accident-prone klutz (whose airhead personality got on my nerves after a while, but I cannot deny that she looked fantastic as a redhead). For me, I preferred the enigma that is Daliah Lavi (a black-haired siren of Mideastern gorgeousness), who emerges a double agent and semi-lover of Helm's. The film does two brilliant things which take its visual appeal to dizzying heights: It launches the film with clever opening credits which peek under a bevy of gorgeous strippers, each doing a 'legitimate' strip-tease (no true nudity). Ending the strip parade is the film's other secret weapon: Cyd Charisse. I love that TPTB had the foresight to acknowledge a younger and older demographic at the same time- while simultaneously spotlighting one of filmdom's greatest dancers in a cameo (at the age of 45)- with the longest, most gorgeous legs in history. After singing the title song Charisse emerges a second time about 37 minutes into the film (in an important plot point) to perform a stunning dance in a Vegas nightclub to the Vikki Carr song "In Santiago-" then disappears much too quickly. Otherwise, there is a lot of fun with Martin poking fun at his own persona: many songs become sexual double-entendre, an audio cameo by Sinatra is quickly nixed, and so forth.
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- movibuf1962
- Jul 15, 2005
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Leise flüstern die Pistolen
- Filming locations
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 42min
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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