When killers lie in wait

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Movie
German title When killers lie in wait
Original title The Ambushers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Henry Levin
script Herbert Baker
production Irving Allen
music Hugo Montenegro
camera Edward Colman
Burnett Guffey
cut Harold F. Kress
occupation

When killers lie in wait ( The Ambushers ) is the third film by producer Irving Allen , released in 1967, starring the fictional American secret agent Matt Helm .

Once again, Henry Levin directed a script that made free use of Donald Hamilton's books . The film music was composed by Hugo Montenegro .

action

This third story about the secret agent Matt Helm is about a flying saucer that was stolen by an anarchist do-gooder on its first flight along with its pretty pilot Sheilah Sommers. Sheila Sommers is discovered a few weeks later in the Central American jungle; the flying saucer, however, has disappeared. Together with the slightly disturbed Sheilah, Matt Helm is now getting on a Mexican brewery owner's skin and not only quickly finds a photo reporter in his mask for Señor Quintana, but also another suspect, José Ortega alias Caselius. After investigations that were not entirely harmless, Helm, Sheilah and a fellow guild member of the competition named Francesca Madeiros advance to Caselius' headquarters, which is hidden in the jungle. The flying saucer is found, but its removal fails, and Matt Helm has his hands full to at least save his and Sheilah's skin, which he succeeds in doing.

effect

Because this was already the third film with Dean Martin as Matt Helm, “Derek Flint” had been trumped, which was over after two films ( Derek Flint sends his corpse and Derek Flint - hard as flint ).

While Hugo Montenegro also provided the music for Rollkommando , there was no other film for director Henry Levin with Dean Martin as Matt Helm, because Phil Karlson returned for the last of these films.

Reviews

The Evangelische Film-Beobachter sums up: “The book and cast, speed and tricks as well as the certainty that nobody takes themselves or the viewer seriously in this game make the film entertaining. Worth seeing for all friends of the genre from the age of 16 onwards. ”The lexicon of international films is less benevolent . It notes succinctly that the work is an "elaborate, but hardly funny, agent film parody".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 186/1968, pp. 188–189
  2. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4258