Matt Helm

She's with George Segal and the Quiller Memorandum.

And I think she's in one of the Dean Martin, Matt Helm movies, which were very sexy.

Just a lot of fun seeing her.

And of course, there were a lot of European actresses starting in the 60s in the Bond movies as well, who just had big impacts on American audiences.

Why hello there and welcome to Retrospection.

In this episode, we're raising our whiskey tumblers and lowering our turtlenecks with the first Matt Helm film, The Silences from 1966, making it 60 years old at the time of recording.

My name's Colin and you undressed me once and I didn't like it.

That wasn't what you said at the time, Colin, from what I remember.

Double barreled.

Yeah.

IMDB says retired secret agent Matt Helm is reactivated in order to stop an evil organization from starting World War III by exploding an atomic bomb over the USA.

So

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Anybody, Dean Martin, Matt Helms.

Of course, yeah.

You remember?

I

mean, I like, so I love Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books, okay, which is one of the most, so Matt Helm, you know, played in the movies by Dean Martin.

So I would never read those books because I said those movies, I like Dean Martin.

He's a really cool guy in those days.

not reading this.

I'm not even wasting my time with this stuff.

So then, you know, years ago, I read Death of a Citizen, the first Matt Helm book.

And I go, oh, my God.