THE SILENCERS - Dean Martin-Elmer Berstein-Vicki Carr - "It's All About Dino" (1966)

"The Silencers" is not really a 'monster movie', but it looks fantastic, has hot music, is crazy, cool, has psychotronic elements and Dean Martin! What else do you want or need? And besides all that, we needed some color, damnit! Dino as Matt Helm is casual, calm and he's collecting every man's dream!! For anything and everything else you want to know about Dean Martin, please head on over to our new pal's pad, I Love Dino Martin!!! In the meantime, here's the lowdown on tonight's feature! Forgive me if I didn't use your favorite picture, this movie just had too many shots to choose from!!

Cyd Charrise sings the title song from "The Silencers"!! Well, actually Vicki Carr is the one who is singing. Cyd mimes the title song from "The Silencers!" The music was written by Elmer Berstein and the lyrics were written by Mack David!!

There's a series of short pop standards sung by Dino in this opening dream sequence with parody lyrics provided by Herbert Baker. It's like, you know, "Like Dreamsville, Man!" (Not to be confused with the terrific blog up there in the links by the same name!)

Dino and the stunning Daliah Lavi as Tina, and/or Cowboy at the Slaymate club and we get the treat of hearing "Santiago" by Sarita played by Cyd and/or Vicki, again written by Berstein and David!

A pensive moment with Dino and Tina!

Man, look at Matt Helm go into action, chop, chop! Take that sucker!! Custom cars in the movie including Matt's station wagon courtesy of The real Boss, George Barris!!!

Stella Stevens looks fantastic through the whole movie. She's gorgeous and hilarious and has a range of facial expressions beyond belief. I captured a ton of photos and she looks great in all of them, no matter what she's doing!! Her and Dean work great together!

The "backward gun trick" is funny, and even though they do it like four or five times in a row, you'll laugh every time!!

If Victor Buono had just a little more makeup on, he would have been a lot scarier! Oh, man, what a drag, Dino got dirty!!!

Matt Helm rocks!!! Now we gotta try and find a copy of "The Ambushers!"

TORTURE GARDEN - Banks/Bernard/Martell - "I Hardly Knew The Man" (1967)

"Torture Garden" is a series of twisted tales of terror with a tricky ending brought to you by Amicus and director Freddie Francis. Out of the four stories, only one has cool jazzy music, and it is really excellent, like you could expect Art Farmer or Frank Strozier to step up and take a solo at any second. Composers Don Banks, and James Bernard get credit for the music, but Phillip Martell was involved too. By looking at his resume, I think James Bernard might be responsible for a lot of these swingin' scenes, having more of a jazz mentality in his compositions. 

 

And let's not forget to give a big thanks to the eye of Freddie Francis stalwart, Cinematographer Norman Warwick!! This is a great ferris wheel shot!!! 

 

Timothy Bateson as the carnival barker went on to be, among a bevy of other things, the voice of The Worm, The Four Guards, and Goblin in "Labyrinth", and has been seen recently as Kreacher in "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix!" Go Timothy!!! What an awesome career! 

 

Here we have 60's bombshell Beverly Adams on the right, as Carla making a total mockery of her friendship with Millie played by Nicole Shelby! Nicole went on to be a regular on The Benny Hill TV Show. Beverly did some early surf movies before she went evil here & went on to marry Vidal Sassoon, had a reoccurring role in Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies as "Lovey Kravezit", and continued acting well into the 90's on TV and the movies!! 

 

This club is so cool, they even have a living snowglobe! Now if only a giant monster had reached in and grabbed it & shook it up, that would have been extra cool!! 

 

There's a lesson to be learned here, don't get drunk and start shooting off your big mouth, because you never know who is listening, Mike! 

 

Burgess Meredith does a splendid job as "My name is Diablo, Dr. Diablo!" 

 

"There's something going on, that I don't want to know anything about!!!"

25 GOOD REASONS TO WATCH OLDE MOVIES Part 04

Really, this whole concept has been a no-brainer from start to finish, loads of fun, but lots of work! It should be interesting to see how far it goes!

Welcome to another Saturday night in The Dungeon! 

Once again, there's no rhyme, and no reason, just one man's opinion, but I think you'll find it difficult to disagree!!!

#76 - Rossana Yanna - "Küss Mich, Monster" "Fangs Of The Living Dead"

#77 - Rossana Podestà - "The Seven Dwarfs To The Rescue" "Horror Castle" "Seven Golden Men"

#78 - Stephanie Powers - "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." "Experiment In Terror"

#79 - Susan Strasberg -"Scream Of Fear" "The Trip" "Psych-Out"

#80 - Tina Louise - "Gilligan"s Island" "The Wrecking Crew"

#81 - Virginia Leith - "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" "On The Threshold Of Space"

#82 - Greta Thyssen - "Terror Is A Man" "Journey To The Seventh Planet"

#83 - Janice Rule - "The Ambushers" "The Swimmer"

#84 - Janine Reynaud - "Küss Mich, Monster" "Succubus"

#85 - Joan Chandler - "Rope" "Dragstrip Riot"

 #86 - Lee Meriwether - Miss America 1955 - "4D Man" "Batman: The Movie" "Star Trek"

#87 - Linda Hayden - "Baby Love" "The Blood On Satan's Claw"

#88 - Mamie Van Doren - The third member of the 'Blonde Bombshell" trilogy that included Marilyn Monroe, and Jayne Mansfield! "The Girl In Black Stockings" "Guns, Girls, And Gangsters"

#89 - Marie Windsor - "Cat-Women Of The Moon" "The Day Mars Invaded Earth" "Chamber Of Horrors"

#90 - Marla English - "The She-Creature" "Voodoo Woman"

#91 - Quinn O'Hara - "A Swingin' Summer" "The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini"

#92 - Acquanetta - "Captive Wild Woman" "Jungle Woman"

#93 - Adriana Ambesi - "Crypt Of The Vampire" "Secret Agent Super Dragon"

#94 -  Dominique Boschero - "The Fantastic Argoman" "Ulysses Against Hercules"

 #95 - Beverly Adams - "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini" Lovey Kravezit in the Matt Helm films!

#96 - Dana Wynter - "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers"

 #97 - Danièle Gaubert - "The Golden Claws Of The Cat Girl"

 #98 - Edwige Fenech - "The Case Of The Bloody Iris" "Strip Nude For Your Killer"

#99 - Gail Russell - "The Uninvited" "The Unseen"

#100 - Ursula Andress - "Slave Of The Cannibal God" "Dr. No"
These 25 actresses make it a cool 100, so if you figure they have an average of 30 movie and TV appearances each (and I think that's an estimate on the low side), you only need to watch about 3000 TV shows and movies to catch up! Better get crackin'!