The Ambushers (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Ambushers


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caption =film poster by Robert McGinnis
director = Henry Levin
producer = Irving Allen
writer = Donald Hamilton (novel)
Herbert Baker (screenplay)
starring = Dean Martin
Senta Berger
music = Herbert Baker
Hugo Montenegro
cinematography = Edward Colman, ASC
Burnett Guffey, ASC
editing =
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = December 22 1967
runtime = 102 min
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preceded_by = Murderers' Row
followed_by = The Wrecking Crew
imdb_id = 0062657

"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.

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.

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, Francesca Madeiros (an operative for Helm's main nemesis Big O) who poses as a model and seduces Helm, and an assassin named Nassim.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062657 Internet Movie Database]