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  HMSS on Matt Helm
He sends agent Tina to fetch Matt Helm out of a "semi-permanent leave." Helm is a rather successful photographer, owning a plush house with a round, automated bed that goes across the bedroom and deposits him in a pool that serves as a giant-sized bubble bath.
Matt's boss is called MacDonald because, in "The Silencers" novel, he appears in the field and uses that name.
Matt is sent by MacDonald (John Larch this time) to be aided by a clumsy British agent (Sharon Tate).
www.hmss.com /otherspies/matthelm   (1486 words)

  
  Matt Helm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matt Helm, a fictional character created by author Donald Hamilton, is a U.S. government counteragent—a man whose primary job is to kill or nullify enemy agents—not a spy or secret agent in the ordinary sense of the term as used in spy thrillers.
Peirce postulates that Helm was actually several years older than the 36 years mentioned in The Wrecking Crew and that he was probably born around 1918.
All of Hamilton's Matt Helm novels were first published in the United States by Fawcett Publications under their Gold Medal imprint.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matt_Helm   (870 words)

  
 TRAVIS McGEE & MATT HELM, by Doug Bassett
Helm was always a particularly unsentimental variant of the breed, though: indeed, that’s an important theme throughout the series.
Interestingly, Helm is not as tough as he portrays himself, not the consummate professional he pretends to be – he’s not Quiller, say, who often seems to have no existence outside of his job.
Helm is constantly sacrificing himself to protect the illusions of others; at the same time Helm is constantly encountering idealists who, when the chips are down, disappoint him or betray him.
www.mysteryfile.com /JDM/Helm.html   (2330 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Matt Helm Double Feature 1 at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Matt dodges the bullet (well, death ray), but is generally believed to be dead.
Matt goes on to the French Riveria to contact a former girlfriend of Solaris, but she ends up dead (a crime Matt gets accused of).
Matt, surrounded by dozens of lucious female trainees in bad cocktail waitress uniforms, is getting a refresher course, really he's being set up by MacDonald (Gregory for the third and final time) to go after the saucer.
www.epinions.com /content_63137681028?sp=irev   (853 words)

  
 Donald Hamilton
Matt Helm was born in the later period of the golden age of spy fiction, which started on the eve WW II and ended in the mid-1960s, when the genre became a playground of satirists.
Helm says of von Sach: "In a military way, he was a good guy to have around, I guess, if you didn't mind your victories liberally seasoned with atrocity.
The Menacers, 1968 - Kovaa leikkiä, Matt Helm
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hamilto.htm   (1921 words)

  
 Funny DVD: Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew) - $25.99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
ICE sеnds agent Matt Helm to Acapulco with Sheila to recover the saucer, under the guise of Matt tакing fashion photographs of beautiful models.
Matt is temporarily sidеtrаскеd, falling prey to the seductive charms оf enemy agent Franceca Маdеirоs.
He еssауs the Helm role with a girl in his bed, a martini and satire humor (Оnе film the girl is listening to Frаnк Sinatra-Martin deadpans "Yоu like Perry Como?").
www.funnydvdmovies.com /tvr4230303039524350574b.html   (758 words)

  
 Secret Agent He-Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
So Helm goes back to work for his old boss at the secret, unacknowledged government agency that handles all the untidy messes left behind by the college boys of the CIA, FBI or other bleeding-heart liberal bureaucratic agencies of the government.
Matt Helm doesn't rely on fanciful cars or gadgets (like another well- known secret agent from across the big pond).
Even though Helm was obviously a young man in the 1940s, twenty years later age has not touched him.
www.moshplant.com /prob/prob01/spy_he-man.html   (703 words)

  
 Matt Helm coming to DVD in a four-disc set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment pays tribute to the original man of mystery, Matt Helm, played by the great Dean Martin, with the release of four popular films to DVD on Dec. 6th in a collectible box set with a suggested retail of $34.95.
Matt Helm Lounge features the film The Silencers and for 3 other classic Matt Helm titles, Murderer’s Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew, available for the first time on DVD.
Matt Helm Lounge features a stellar cast headlined by the infamous Martin.
dvd.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_10355.php   (268 words)

  
 Matt Helm (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Helm is hired by a charming socialite with a dual personality to investigate a murder that may have been committed by her, while acting as her other self.
Helm investigates the death of a tycoon who was going to be a player in the highest stakes poker game of all time.
Helm investigates the death of a research scientist who was found frozen to death after a skiing accident.
epguides.com /MattHelm/guide.shtml   (898 words)

  
 Matt Helm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Helm is introduced in the first novel, Death Of A Citizen as a World War II veteran who worked as an assassin behind enemy lines.
Helm is brought back into government service when Communist agents attempt to manipulate the now-civilian author of Western novels (like Hamilton himself) and professional photographer into helping them in their sinister schemes by kidnapping his young daughter.
Needless to say, Helm rescues his offspring, but in such a brutal, ruthless manner that his wife is shocked and terrified by the monster she's married.
www.thrillingdetective.com /helm_matt.html   (902 words)

  
 "Matt Helm" (1975)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Matt Helm is a spy in a series of admired novels by Donald Hamilton, and in a series of unadmired movies starring Dean Martin.
Helm was a brash, playboy type who lived the high life and didn't take anything seriously.
Helm lived in a beautiful California house with lots of wall to wall glass.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0072542   (660 words)

  
 Matt Helm: The Unofficial Homepage
Matthew L. Helm was probably born in Minnesota around 1921, the son of Karl M. and Erika Helm.
However, the peaceful life and happy marriage of ordinary citizen Helm are destroyed forever with the publication of.
Matt Helm ™ is the property of Donald Hamilton.
members.aol.com /MacBorden/intro.html   (290 words)

  
 Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew)
Matt is temporarily sidetracked, falling prey to the seductive charms of enemy agent Franceca Madeiros.
Considering he was 49 years old when he did the first Matt Helm movie, The Silencers, that's really saying a lot about his popularity and influence back during that period.
As usual the plot of Helm trying to recover a fortune in stolen gold, is secondary to the hi-jinks of martin's character.
masterofweb.com /item/11781   (1267 words)

  
 dOc Press Release: Matt Helm Lounge: The Silencers, Murderer's Row, The Ambushers, The Wrecking Crew
Matt Helm Lounge features The Silencers and for 3 other classic Matt Helm titles available for the first time on DVD Murderer's Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew.
Matt Helm Lounge features a stellar cast headlined by the infamous Dean Martin.
Matt is temporarily sidetracked, falling prey to the seductive charms of enemy agent Francesca Madeiros.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrelease.php3?ID=5932   (772 words)

  
 Matt Helm (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Helm is hired by a charming socialite with a dual personality to investigate a murder that may have been committed by her, while acting as her other self.
Helm investigates the death of a tycoon who was going to be a player in the highest stakes poker game of all time.
Helm investigates the death of a research scientist who was found frozen to death after a skiing accident.
www.epguides.com /MattHelm/guide.shtml   (898 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Matt Helm: Video: Henry Levin,Dean Martin,Senta Berger,Janice Rule,James Gregory,Albert Salmi,Kurt ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the movies, Matt Helm is a boozing, affable, world-famous photographer of beautiful women who works for "Slaymate" magazine (which fits in nicely with the Hugh Hefner analogy...).
I tend to speak glowingly of the Matt Helm movies because I enjoy them for their over-the-top campiness, but more serious-minded viewers will probably be turned off.
Naturally, Helm is assigned to find the saucer, and he has to take his former partner (who's now recovered) because only females can fly the saucer.
www.amazon.ca /Matt-Helm-Henry-Levin/dp/6304017650   (1678 words)

  
 Matt Helm: The Unofficial Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Our Matt Helm is neither the comic agent as portrayed by Dean Martin, nor the sleuth portrayed by Tony Franciosa.
Here we deal with the Matt Helm who periodically makes the world a safer place, as documented in a series of novels by Donald Hamilton that began with Death of a Citizen in 1960.
Our Matt Helm is, to put it bluntly, an assassin working for an unnamed U.S. Government agency, whose job it is to kill people who pose a threat to the United States.
members.aol.com /MacBorden   (204 words)

  
 Matt Helm Lounge - CBn Forums
Doublenought gave me the heads up on this upcoming box set, featuring all 4 Dean Martin as Matt Helm films in a box set due for release on December 6th.
Not sure-I hadn't picked it up when another Dean Martin as Matt Helm fan told me he had watched it and realized it was a tv print.
No extra features (except the inclusion of Matt Helm trailers), but all 4 movies are in anamorphic with a nice clean print.
debrief.commanderbond.net /index.php?showtopic=25576   (1036 words)

  
 The Donald Hamilton Worship Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rick thinks Lee Marvin would have been a good Matt Helm although he is too old now.
Katherine A. Jena's choice to play Matt Helm would either be Joe Don Baker or Bo Swenson.
Anna Schauer thinks Russell Crowe would be the "just right" look and attitude for Matt Helm but agrees with me that he is just a bit too short.
www.benish-industries.com /hamilton/newhelm.html   (974 words)

  
 Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew) DVD - Michael Weise Productions
Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew) (1966)
I was a kid in the 60s and Matt Helm was the anti-Bond, an American spy who totally out-cooled that British guy.
Definitely not to be taken seriously but a fun romp on a retro weekend of martinis and lounge music.
www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B0009RCPWK   (285 words)

  
 BookPage: December Burning Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Matt Helm starred as "America's James Bond" in a series of original paperback thrillers in the 1960s and '70s by Donald Hamilton.
According to our best count, there were 27 Matt Helm novels published—published being the operative word here, because according to Hamilton's editor there is still one Matt Helm novel waiting to come in from the cold.
Perhaps once the new Matt Helm movie (currently in pre-production at Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio) arrives on the big screen, popular demand will at last bring this final Helm novel into print.
www.bookpage.com /0512bp/burning_questions.html   (372 words)

  
 Helm's Genealogy Toolbox - Providing the Tools to Research Your Family Online
Helm's Genealogy Toolbox is currently undergoing a move to a new environment.
Within Helm's Genealogy Toolbox you will find links to genealogical and historical resources gathered by our TreEZy search engine, digitized images of original documents, and an online store that features over 13,000 products for those interested in researching their family history.
Helm's Genealogy Toolbodx can be utilized in a couple of different ways.
www.onlinegenealogy.com   (611 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew): DVD: Dean Martin,Stella ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Matt is temporarily side-tracked, falling prey to the seductive charms of enemy agent Franceca Madeiros.
Dean Martin's Matt Helm was a superspy who never let a good case get in the way of a drink, smoke or lady.
As usual the plot of Helm trying to recover a fortune in stolen gold, is secondary to the hi-jinks of martin's character.
www.amazon.com /Lounge-Silencers-Murderers-Ambushers-Wrecking/dp/B0009RCPWK   (1876 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Matt Helm - The Silencers: DVD: Dean Martin,Stella Stevens,Daliah Lavi,Victor Buono,Arthur O'Connell,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Austin Powers undoubtedly stole a few moves from Matt Helm, the swinging secret agent embodied by Dean Martin in four intentionally dopey late-'60s movies.
Helm & Tina quickly rush Gail out of the club and away from enemy agents, but suspect that she is also an enemy agent working for "Big-O".
Helm then takes Gail to San Juan, which is where Sarita told her that something was going to happen before she died; but can Helm stop the dastardly Tung-Tze and his evil plan?
www.amazon.com /Matt-Helm-Silencers-Dean-Martin/dp/B0000CDRW1   (2445 words)

  
 DVD : Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The Ambushers/The Wrecking Crew)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
ICE sends agent Matt Helm to Acapulco with Sheila to recover the saucer, under the guise of Matt taking fashion photographs of beautiful models.
Matt is temporarily sidetracked, falling prey to the seductive charms of enemy agent Franceca Madeiros.
As Matt works alone, the British send in Freya to aid Matt, but it seems that Freya causes more problems than she solves.
www.abc.net /shop/search?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B0009RCPWK   (719 words)

  
 Matt Helm Collection (4 DVDs)
Doch dann verschwinden in Dänemark Goldbarren für eine Milliarde U.S.-Dollar und Matt Helm lässt sich von seiner ehemaligen Dienststelle überreden, ein letztes Mal einzugreifen und für Recht und Ordnung zu sorgen.
Doch auch zwölf weitere schöne 'Killergirls' sind gegen Matt Helm machtlos.
Als Matt Helm sich schon am Ziel wähnt, schlagen seine Feinde noch einmal erbittert zu...
www.zeitungen.de /produkte-617-ls-praemien/Matt-Helm-Collection-4-DVDs-1344514.html   (474 words)

  
 Matt Helm - Moviefone
HMSS on Matt Helm 1960's paperback Matt Helm By the mid 1960s, nine Helm novels were out.
Amazon.com: Matt Helm Lounge (The Silencers/ Murderers Row/The...
Considering he was 49 years old when he did the first Matt Helm movie, The Silencers, that's really saying a lot about his popularity and influence back...
movies.aol.com /movie/matt-helm/1087694/main   (175 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DEVASTATORS (Matt Helm): Books: Donald Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Helm is so very, very different from the normal spy fare out there.
Helm books can best be characterized as blunt trauma literature; there is no glamour with what Matt does.
Matt Helm is sent to Scotland to clear everything up and encounters an egotistical scientist, Chinese agents and his old Russian adversary, Vadya.
www.amazon.com /DEVASTATORS-Matt-Helm-Donald-Hamilton/dp/0449140849   (1048 words)

  
 Matt Helm movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
The main character Matt Helm is a former spy during WWII who, upon retiring from his top-secret organization, unsuccessfully attempts to put his past behind him.
Please do not ask us if you can take part in the movie as we are not affiliated to Matt Helm in any other way than reporting on the movie.
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www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/matthelm.htm   (248 words)

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