"The Best Spy Thriller of Nineteen SextySex"
The Silencers

Cast

A
Anna Lavelle
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
G
Grace Lee
Oriental Girl (uncredited)

Crew

G
George R. Nelson
Set Decoration
J
Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
C
Clark L. Paylow
Assistant Director
C
Charles Nelson
Editor
P
Phil Karlson
Director
D
Donald Hamilton
Novel
I
Irving Allen
Producer
C
Charles J. Rice
Sound Supervisor
R
Ralph E. Black
Unit Production Manager
V
Virginia Jones
Hairstylist
L
Lambert E. Day
Sound
B
Ben Lane
Makeup Supervisor
R
Robert Sidney
Choreographer
J
James Schmerer
Associate Producer
M
Marlowe Newkirk
Special Effects
J
James Curtis Havens
Second Unit Director
S
Sergei Petschnikoff
Unit Production Manager
S
Sy Devore
Wardrobe Designer

Matt Helm Collection

Tounge-in-cheek spy-spoof series staring Dean Martin. Loosely (VERY loosely) based on the series of novels by Donald Hamilton. The films used the name Matt Helm, his cover identity, plus book titles and some very loose plot elements, but otherwise the series bore no resemblance at all to the character, atmosphere, or themes of Hamilton's original books, nor to the hard-edged action of Bond. One reason was the attitude of the filmmakers that the only way to compete with the Bond films was to parody them.