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The Wrecking Crew is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Phil Karlson released in USA on 30 december 1968 with Dean Martin
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 december 1968
Length 1h45
Directed by Phil Karlson
OriginUSA
Themes Spy films
Rating55%
The Wrecking Crew, released in December, 1968 and starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise and Sharon Tate, is the fourth and final film in a series of American comedy-spy-fi theatrical releases featuring Martin as secret agent Matt Helm.
As with the previous three Helm spy movies (The Silencers, Murderers' Row, and The Ambushers), it is based only loosely upon Donald Hamilton's 1960 novel of the same title and takes great liberties with the plot and characters, being developed as a spoof of the James Bond films. The Wrecking Crew was the second Helm novel published and the earliest of the books to be adapted.
Chuck Norris makes his film debut in a small role.
This was the last film of Tate's to be released before her murder at the hands of Charles Manson's followers on August 9, 1969.
Synopsis
Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars in gold.Actors
Dean Martin
(Matt Helm)
Elke Sommer
(Linka Karensky)
Sharon Tate
(Freya Carlson)
Nigel Green
(Count Massimo Contini)
Nancy Kwan
(Wen Yu-Rang)
Matt Helm
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