The Ambushers

1967

1h 42m

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A secret agent (Dean Martin) saves a flying-saucer prototype and its pilot (Janice Rule) in the third of four Matt Helm movies.

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The thesis regards ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage) attempting to retrieve a secret flying saucer with Matt Helm at the helm posing as husband and wife, with another ICE agent.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Well it's a bit of an overkill by now... but Dean went on to make a fourth Matt Helm which I think I voluntarily missed.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Tredje Matt Helm filmen och den Ã¤r vÃ¤l ungefÃ¤r som de tvÃ¥ tidigare fast aningen sÃ¤mre. Det poppiga sextiotalsmodet Ã¤r fortfarande det som sticker ut mest och som Ã¤r mest underhÃ¥llande.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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<a href="http://cooltext.com"><img src="http://images.cooltext.com/1818120.png" alt="My Review " /></a></a> <b><i>"They get you when you're high, they get you when you're low. They get you when you're standing still or else when you're on the go. They're the Ambushers."</b></i> A flying saucer built by the U.S. government is launched into space on a top secret test flight and can only be piloted by a woman. Sheila Sommars is the pilot chosen and all goes well until Jose Ortega uses a secret remote control device to cause the ship to land at his secret base in Mexico. With Sheila posing as his wife, agent Matt Helm is assigned to find the saucer in Mexico where he has to deal with not only Ortega and his henchman Quintana, but also enemy agent Fracesca Madeiros and an Arab agent/assassin named Nassim. I happened to have discovered this old gem from the '60s on a recent television broadcast and liked it. Released on March 1, 1968, <i>The Ambushers</i> has all of the following that made it fun: espionage, scheming villains, an upbeat opening, and sexy women. And let's not forget our hero Helm...Matt Helm. In an incredible acting performance made possible by the late Dean Martin, he sure was a suave secret agent who was a powerful competitor to another agent popular around that same time, James Bond. His costar Janice Rule was a real hot sidekick that even starlets during that '60s never failed to amaze me for their beauty, and that Sheila Sommars character was one of them. <a href="http://s955.photobucket.com/albums/ae34/radboviemiot/Movie%20Posters/?action=view¤t=ambushers02.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae34/radboviemiot/Movie%20Posters/ambushers02.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Overall, I can say that <i>The Ambushers</i> is a great movie with enough action for everybody to see if they are Dean Martin fans, fans of anything from the '60s, or want to be honorary Ambushers. Just after watching this title I discovered that I happened to have seen one of the installments in the Matt Helm series of films, so when I get the chance to watch the others then I'm interested.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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The third Matt Helm movie. Still bad, still fun.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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"You know what happens to people who get caught in an electromagnetic field? They DIE!" Love the 60s sci-fi-spy cheese. Love the awful awful double entendres. Love the hydromechanical servo valve beer lifting suits. Love the sweet purple boots. Love the sweet lime green boots. Love the sweet orange over-the-knee boots. Love the Get Smart-y villain. Love his house full of titty paintings. Love the Fez-wearing baddie (Silly spies, never trust a man in a fez on a plane.) Love his baby blue Mustang. Love when the woman says, "But Maaaatt," and it sounds like, "But Maaaaax." Way better than The Silencers. If only Dean Martin were, like, actually attractive. I gots to respect Matt's lilac pants and matching lilac shoes, though.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Henry Levin

Director

Dean Martin

Matt Helm

Senta Berger

Francesca Madeiros

Janice Rule

Sheila Sommers

James Gregory

MacDonald

Albert Salmi

Jose Ortega

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Rated: 2/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Rated: 2/5

Oct 30, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Aug 27, 2005

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Rated: 2/5

Jul 16, 2004

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Synopsis

A secret agent (Dean Martin) saves a flying-saucer prototype and its pilot (Janice Rule) in the third of four Matt Helm movies.

Director: Henry Levin
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Meadway-Claude Productions Company
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 15, 2010
Runtime: 1h 42m

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