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The Ambushers

film poster by Robert McGinnis
Directed by Henry Levin
Produced by Irving Allen
Written by Donald Hamilton (novel)
Herbert Baker (screenplay)
Starring Dean Martin
Senta Berger
Music by Herbert Baker
Hugo Montenegro
Cinematography Edward Colman, ASC
Burnett Guffey, ASC
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) December 22, 1967
Running time 102 min
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Preceded by Murderers' Row
Followed by The Wrecking Crew

The Ambushers is a 1967 science fiction spy comedy film filmed in Acupulco starring Dean Martin, Senta Berger and Janice Rule. 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 more, The Wrecking Crew in 1969.

This film is generally considered the weakest of the four Helm films, and is cited in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Harry and Michael Medved.

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[edit] 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 ship's 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.

[edit] Music

Hugo Montenegro became the third composer in as many films to do the score for the series. He wrote (along with Herbert Baker who worked on Murderer's Row) the theme song, "The Ambushers," which featured the vocals of Boyce & Hart, two of the songwriters from Murderer's Row. Montenegro went on to compose the score solo for the next Matt Helm film, The Wrecking Crew.

[edit] Cast

Actor Role
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

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

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

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