The Wrecking Crew (1968). Cast: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate. The fourth and final film in a series of comedy-spy-fi featuring Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. As with the first three movies (The Silencers, Murderers' Row and The Ambushers), the film is based on Donald Hamilton's 1960 novel of the same name.
The story is simular to the Bond novel/film, Goldfinger, Helm's assignment is to bring down the evil count who is trying to steal gold. Along the way, Helm is partnered with a British agent played by Sharon Tate an accident-prone spy. Chuck Norris makes his film debut in a small role. It was the first film in the series to not be written by comedy writer Herbert Baker but by former police reporter and crime novel author William P. McGivern. The Wreaking Crew, is best known for the perfomance of Sharon Tate, who performed her own stunts and martial arts scenes cheroeographed by Bruce Lee.
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When this movie first came out I thought it was a little corny..but, now I really enjoy watching it.
Oh, I see why the follow up post about Sharon Tate now. Actually I haven't seen this Matt Helm movie. But I definitely want to check it out. I didn't know Sharon was in it. Thanks for posting Dawn all the clips along with the info.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Nancy Kwan was in it either...awesome girl fight. Sharon was funny, I like how he goes to hit Nancy again and ends up hitting Matt.
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