Regularly dismissed, occasionally maligned and sometimes ignored outright, love them or loathe them, Dino’s four spy movies form a distinct part of his repertoire.
We here at the DMA of course have all the time in the world for the Matt Helms films. We love them very much! Nobody does it better than Dean as a suave, lounge lizard super-spy with a bevy of Slaygirls and bad guys to deal with. Markedly different from the source novels of Donald Hamilton (and let’s face it, so were the Bond movies from Ian Fleming’s literary originals), they were designed with Dean in mind.
We’d like to point you in the direction of the team at Infinity Magazine, who last month released a special edition of the long-running and really rather excellent publication. They ran a fantastic piece on Dean’s tenure as Matt Helm and we highly recommend it. Click on the image to take you to Infinity’s site. You won’t be disappointed!
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