The Wrecking Crew, released in 1969 and starring Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan 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 , 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. 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. 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. Helm travels to Denmark, where he is given a guide, Freya Carlson, a beautiful but bumbling woman from a Danish tourism bureau. A pair of Contini's accomplices, the seductive Linka Karensky and Yu-Rang, each attempt to foil Helm's plans.
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| Release date: | 1969 |
| Directed by: | Phil Karlson |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irving Allen |
| Music by: | Hugo Montenegro |
| Cinematography: | Sam Leavitt |
| Screenplay by: | William P. McGivern |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action, Thriller |