1. The guilty pleasure of the Matt Helm series - Daniel Martin Eckhart
May 9, 2023 · In the original novels by Donald Hamilton, Matt Helm was actually straight-up, hard-hitting spy material. Essentially, in the films, all that ...
In the mid-sixties Dean Martin decided to become Matt Helm, super spy. The films were spoofing James Bond from start to finish - and three of four were written by the most unusual Herbert Baker.
2. MATT HELM – ONE OF THE FIRST AND MAYBE THE BEST
Aug 20, 2013 · If you like action, adventure spy novels with an real life feel, Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm are some of the best in the genre even today. They ...
I’m so happy to see that the early MATT HELM novels of Donald Hamilton have been rereleased by Titan Books. I first started reading the MATT HELM spy series in my early teens. Helm was a tou…
3. Hollywood turned spy fiction's most hard-boiled killer into Austin Powers
Apr 25, 2023 · Matt Helm was a gritty spy book series to rival James Bond, but Rat Pack swinger Dean Martin made them almost comedy parodies like Our Man ...
Matt Helm was a stone-cold spy to rival James Bond, until Dean Martin put on his suit
4. The Inessential Matt Helm - Crooked Marquee
Aug 13, 2019 · If James Bond is a secret agent who only kills when the mission calls for it, then Matt Helm is a government-sanctioned assassin who does ...
In Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Sharon Tate gleefully catches a showing of her biggest movie yet — The Wrecking Crew. It’s a great
5. MATT HELM LOUNGE - Badmovies.org
Dec 6, 2005 · The movie is more of a sex farce than a spy film, but it's great to see all of those "mod" 1960s fashions. My favorite scene is when Dean is ...
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6. The 60s James Bond Rivals (1): Matt Helm - ajb007
Jul 28, 2015 · I can't recommend them highly enough- his characters live and breathe, Helm involves the reader as much or more than any other fictional agent, ...
Matt Helm In the fifties, US author Donald Hamilton began writing a series of novels about a tough American agent called Matt Helm.
7. Matt Helm Lounge....
Aug 3, 2009 · About 15 years ago, I was stuck indoors by a blizzard and watched all the Dean Martin Matt Helm movies again after seeing them as a youngster.
I just bought the 4 disc Matt Helm Lounge; The Silencers, Murderers Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew. Dean Martin as the swingest Spy in America. Great fun, and Great looking babes. Any Matt Helm fans out there?
8. Remember the Matt Helm Books? - Smith & Wesson Forum
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Donald Hamilton, one of the few authors who really knew guns quite well, wrote a terrific series of spy novels featuring an agent named Matt Helm. A few movies resulted, improbably starring Dean Marti
9. Screenplay Review – Matt Helm - ScriptShadow
Aug 9, 2016 · Matt Helm is born out of a series of spy novels of the same name. In the 1960s and 70s, four films were made based on the books, but bore zero ...
Genre: Spy/Action Premise: Years after a psychotic spy is kicked out of his agency, he’s pulled back in to complete a top secret mission. About: This script comes from Wanted writers Michael Brandt…
10. Best Worst Spy-fi Movie Series Ever: The Matt Helm Films (1966-1969)
Jul 15, 2014 · The movies are awful mostly because the books were so good. Matt Helm as written by Donald Hamilton was a ruthless assassin relying on knives, ...
Title: The Matt Helm Collection (1966-1969) Directed by: Phil Karlson Starring: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi If Austin Powers had a favourite movie spy series it would have to be the Matt Helm movies made by Dean Martin in the 1960s. Matt was a hard-as-nails U.S. government counter-agent, hero of 27 books by Donald Hamilton. Dino played him as a lecherous, chain-smoking, permanently pickled lounge lizard who gets more crumpet than Greggs. Columbia Pictures originally planned at least five […]
11. Matt Helm - Spy Guys And Gals
He is proficient with pistols and a fair hand with a shotgun but it is the long-distance weapon that he prefers. The information that Helm passes on regarding ...
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12. Matt Helm: A Movie Retrospective - Cinema Scholars
Jul 26, 2024 · The film provides a well-rounded, fun, and humorous experience. Speaking of humor, The Wrecking Crew is by far the funniest since The Silencers, ...
Cinema Scholars presents a behind-the-scenes look at Dean Martin's 1960s spy/comedy "Matt Helm" films, including mini-reviews of each entry.
13. Matt Helm, America's loaded weapon | The Spy Command - WordPress.com
Four movies were produced, with a fifth announced before star Dean Martin decided he'd had enough. Yet, the Helm movies aren't very well remembered today, even ...
Originally published in 2000, with a 2007 update in Her Majesty’s Secret Servant. A 2015 update is at the end Of all the spy-oriented movies series of the 1960s, arguably the Matt Helm series…
14. A TV Series Review by Michael Shonk: MATT HELM (1975-76).
Feb 14, 2015 · This Helm had a dark side, while he still was able to contact The Director and his old agency The Machine, Helm had quit the spy business after ...
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15. Matt Helm from page to screen - Spies, Spoofs & Spin-offs - CBn Forums
Jan 1, 2006 · The film actually uses the term, the only one of the four Helm films to do so. ... This is a very good (if somewhat prolix) article on Donald ...
Matt Helm from page to screen - posted in Spies, Spoofs & Spin-offs: There's not a lot of Donald Hamilton's writing in the Matt Helm movies, but there is some. For those unfamiliar with the books, they're a cross between Ian Fleming and Mickey Spilliane (the plots can be fanciful, but they're presented in a first-person narrative that can get pretty grim at times). A few examples of what did make it on the screen. THE SILENCERS Based on Death of a Citizen and The Silen...
16. 007 USA: The Matt Helm Novels of Donald Hamilton - Murder & Mayhem
Sep 6, 2024 · Helm is a professional. He takes a craftsman's pride in his work. That his work is killing people is immaterial to him. He is no chivalrous Cold ...
Swedish-American author Donald Hamilton brought a fresh, hard-boiled approach to the post-War espionage novel when he introduced cold-blooded US assassin Matt Helm to the world in 1959.
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17. Dean Martin Is...Matt Helm! - Rip Jagger's Dojo
Sep 28, 2024 · The films play on the reputation that Martin had of being a drunk, always performing with a drink in his hand. He also, like most spies was ...
I suspect one likes Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies or one hates them. These parodies of the spy genre function much like the Flint movies (m...
18. Beyond the Book: Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm - Mystery Scene
The Silencers is the undeniable best of the bunch, thanks mainly to a genuinely funny performance by Stella Stevens as a woefully inefficient Helm helpmate and ...
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19. Matt Helm: The Removers - Vintage Pop Fictions
Aug 20, 2016 · He's a professional. He gets the job done. If other people get hurt that's very unfortunate. He tries not to get innocent bystanders involved ...
The Removers was the third of Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm spy thrillers. The first thing you need to understand when approaching the Mat...
20. Matt Helm #02 - The Wrecking Crew - Paperback Warrior
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