The Wrecking Crew (1969) | |
| Director(s) | Phil Karlson |
| Producer(s) | Irving Allen, Harold F. Kress (associate) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Spies |
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The Wrecking Crew (1969) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Phil Karlson and produced by Irving Allen and Harold F. Kress.
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Dean Martin Ogles the Ladies in "The Wrecking Crew"
By Rick29 on Jan 16, 2014 From Classic Film & TV CafeI was in the mood for a guilty pleasure recently and up popped The Wrecking Crew (1968) on TCM. Guilty pleasures don't get much guiltier than this fourth entry in Dean Martin's Matt Helm series. With spy movies all the rage in the 1960s, Columbia tried to posture Helm as a poor man's James Bond, Wel... Read full article
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Quotes from
Matt Helm:
Wanna do me a favor?
Freya Carlson: Yes sir.
Matt Helm: Go play in the freeway.
[turns to leave but turns back]
Matt Helm: Without a car!
Lola Medina: I've heard that you do... drink.
Matt Helm: Just call it a hobby.
Matt Helm: [to the tune of 'Cry'] If your sweetheart pust a pistol in her bed, you'd do better sleeping with your uncle Fred...
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Freya Carlson: Yes sir.
Matt Helm: Go play in the freeway.
[turns to leave but turns back]
Matt Helm: Without a car!
Lola Medina: I've heard that you do... drink.
Matt Helm: Just call it a hobby.
Matt Helm: [to the tune of 'Cry'] If your sweetheart pust a pistol in her bed, you'd do better sleeping with your uncle Fred...
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Facts about
Columbia production number 8869.
This was the final film in the Matt Helm series. Although plans were afoot for a fifth film ("The Ravagers"), as well as a proposed teaming with Frank Sinatra for "Matt Helm Meets Tony Rome", the poor box-office showing of both "The Wrecking Crew" and Sinatra's second go round as Rome in "Lady In Cement" brought the Matt Helm series to an end.
Dean Martin was so distraught over the murder of his The Wrecking Crew co-star and friend Sharon Tate that he abandoned the next already-announced "Matt Helm" motion picture series installment (to be titled "The Ravagers"), and never played the character again.
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This was the final film in the Matt Helm series. Although plans were afoot for a fifth film ("The Ravagers"), as well as a proposed teaming with Frank Sinatra for "Matt Helm Meets Tony Rome", the poor box-office showing of both "The Wrecking Crew" and Sinatra's second go round as Rome in "Lady In Cement" brought the Matt Helm series to an end.
Dean Martin was so distraught over the murder of his The Wrecking Crew co-star and friend Sharon Tate that he abandoned the next already-announced "Matt Helm" motion picture series installment (to be titled "The Ravagers"), and never played the character again.
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