My spouse decided we needed to take a trip down memory lane and he did good! He picked up a 2 disc DVD from our library with Dean Martin starring as Matt Helm. They seem to give "Murderer's Row" top billing but "The Silencers" really came before it in the series. Helm is "ICE's" greatest secret agent but he has retired and started a photography business where he photographs beautiful women for calendars and other assignments. When "ICE" calls him back into action to team up with a former female partner (whose current male partner was murdered putting her in danger also), he's reluctant to return to work as he's just been offered a photo shoot in Mexico. However, MacDonald, the head of "ICE," reminds him he can never really retire from this government job and, when his former co-agent shows up at his door, he finds himself unable to refuse her advances. They're off to stop the evil Big O organization headed by Tung-Tze (Victor Buono) "Operation Fallout." Along the way they face danger and add a reluctant but gogeous klutz to their team (Stella Stevens). Will they be able to prevent World War III? Watch and find out....
The second DVD in the series, "Murderers' Row," has Helm called back into action when the inventor of a death ray that can destroy entire cities is kidnapped. Julian Wall (Karl Malden) wants to destroy Washington, D.C., so he can take over the world but Helm with the help of the inventor's go-go dancing daughter (Ann-Margaret) are out to find her father and stop Wall.
Both movies are fun, light-hearted suspense in the vein of a 007 spoof -- fun to watch and Dean Martin (as well as all the beautiful women that surround him) is great to look at and even gets to sing a little-a definite bonus in my opinion. Frank Sinatra gets a bit role in each movie, too -- also a fun touch. Enjoy...pazt
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