The Ambushers (film)
The Ambushers is a 1967 science fiction spy comedy film starring Dean Martin and Senta Berger. It is loosely based upon the novel of the same title by Donald Hamilton.
Directed
by Henry Levin
Produced by Irving Allen
Written by Donald Hamilton (novel)
Herbert
Baker (screenplay)
The film was the third of four produced in the late 1960s starring Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. It followed The Silencers and Murderers' Row and like those earlier films followed the approach of being a spoof of the James Bond film series rather than a straight adaptation of Hamilton's novel. It was followed by one final film, The Wrecking Crew in 1969.
This
film is generally considered the weakest of the four Matt Helm films, and is cited
in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Harry and Michael Medved.
Cast
Dean
Martin - Matt Helm
Senta Berger - Francesca Madeiros
Janice Rule
- Sheila Sommers
James Gregory - MacDonald
Albert Salmi - Jose
Ortega
Kurt Kasznar - Quintana
Beverly Adams - Lovey Kravezit
David Mauro - Nassim
Roy Jenson - Karl
John Brascia - Rocco
Linda Foster - Linda
Tomiko Ishizuka - Slaygirl (as Yumiko Ishizuka)
Karin Feddersen - Slaygirl (as Karin Fedderson)
Ulla Lindstrom -
Slaygirl
Marilyn Tindall - Slaygirl
Plot
When
a government built flying saucer is hijacked mid-flight by Jose Ortega the exiled
ruler for an outlaw nation secret agent Matt Helm and the ships former pilot Sheila
Sommars are sent to recover it. Along the way they must deal with Ortega's henchmen,
Fracesca Madeiros (an operative for Helm's main nemesis Big O) who poses as a
model and seduces Helm, and an assassin named Nassim.
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