1969 - THE WRECKING CREW, the last film in the Matt Helm quadrilogy

Dino's back for his final appearance as Matt Helm.  Probably pushing 51 years old when he made this epic.  The Wrecking Crew has some hot if some what past their prime film babes, Tina Louise, Elke Sommer and Nancy Kwan.  The film also features a kind of funny Sharon Tate reprising the Stella Stevens role from The Silencers.

IT'S DINO VS CHUCK NORRIS

The fight scenes were stages by Bruce Lee and you get to see Dino beat up Chuck Norris towards the end of the film.  Dino has his usual easy going film persona thing going on in this film.  The guy was a pretty good light comedian.  It's amazing how much mileage he got out of his lecherous drunk act through the years.

The fact that something like The Wrecking Crew actually looks good to me now speaks volumes to the current state of the action film.  This film with it's lame sex jokes and old fashioned action scenes at least never pretends to be something that it isn't an overblown ridiculous action film, (see Wanted.)

Couple of quick notes, character actor Nigel Green is the bad guy Count Contini.  Hugo Montenegro wrote the silly score.  Beverly Adams who had been playing Dino's secretary "Lovey Kravezit" did not appear in this film.  The producer Irving Allen was actually the partner of Albert R. Broccoli who made all the Bond films.  Allen and Broccoli split up because Allen wanted no part of a James Bond franchise.

The Wrecking Crew ended with the tag line, "Matt Helm will be back in THE RAVAGERS."

105 minutes, written by William McGivern.