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Language. English. Box office. $16.3 million [1] 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).
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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Overview. 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. Phil Karlson.
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The Silencers, American spy film, released in 1966, that was the first and arguably best of the Matt Helm movies, which were based on the spy novels of Donald Hamilton and starred Dean Martin.
Former secret agent Matt Helm (played by Martin) is working as a world-famous glamour photographer when he is lured back to temporary service in the intelligence agency I.C.E. He is dispatched to investigate Tung-Tze (Victor Buono), the mastermind of an international criminal organization known as Big O. Along the way, Helm meets a number of beautiful women, including Gail Hendricks (Stella Stevens), a bumbling agent whose “help” in the case often leads to unintended disasters. Helm infiltrates Tung-Tze’s enormous complex located in the desert and finds that Tung-Tze intends to initiate World War III by exploding an atomic bomb in New Mexico. Helm employs various gadgets to escape a number of death traps, and despite Gail’s incompetence, he manages to destroy the Big O facility and kill Tung-Tze.
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•Studio: Columbia Pictures
•Director: Phil Karlson
•Producer: Irving Allen
•Writer: Oscar Saul
•Music: Elmer Bernstein
•Running time: 102 minutes
•Dean Martin (Matt Helm)
•Stella Stevens (Gail Hendricks)
•Daliah Lavi (Tina)
•Victor Buono (Tung-Tze)
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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.
Instead, the screenplay posits a more sinister threat: the nascent re-Nazification of German youths, facilitated by an underground coven of Nazi sympathizing grade-school teachers. The film’s featured secret agent is the very un-British Quiller (George Segal), a slightly depressive American operative on loan to Britain’s secret services (take that, Bond!).
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The German text is publicly available through Project Gutenberg: Simplicius Simplicissimus. PDFs of the original German-language edition, bearing the date 1669 but probably published already in 1668, [7] may be downloaded from the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe and from the Herzog-August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. —— (1989). Breuer ...
