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The Ambushers is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Henry Levin released in USA on 22 december 1967 with Dean Martin
The Ambushers (1967)
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Add to a movie listThe Ambushers is a 1967 spy comedy film filmed in Acapulco starring Dean Martin, Senta Berger and Janice Rule. It is loosely based upon the novel of the same name by Donald Hamilton as well as The Menacers that featured UFOs and a Mexican setting. 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 Sommers are sent to recover it.
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Helm is sent to the ICE (Intelligence and Counter Espionage) Training Headquarters to uncover a traitor in the organisation. Whilst there he meets ICE agent Sheila Sommers, the pilot of the saucer who has been recovered from a Central American jungle with no memory of what happened to the saucer she flew. Due to the electo-magnetic power of the saucer, only a woman is able to fly it, males of the species are killed by the energy.Actors
Dean Martin
(Matt Helm)
Senta Berger
(Francesca Madeiros)
Janice Rule
(Sheila Sommers)
Kurt Kasznar
(Quintana)
Beverly Adams
(Lovey Kravezit)
Matt Helm
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