The Ambushers
Every movie company gives fat press releases for all of their movies and inside every press release there is an Official Summary of the plot. However hopelessly convoluted the plot may be, some poor slob out in Hollywood has to sit down at a typewriter and sweat out a summary that sounds logical. You shoulda watched them squirm trying to explain “Casino Royale” (1967).
But “The Ambushers” is likely to break this tradition, it doesn’t have a plot. None. So serious is this fact that even the press agents were stymied. “So sorry, no summary on this one,” says the official press release. Everyone’s lips are sealed. “But don’t get us wrong there IS a story in ‘The Ambushers’ you can bet your week’s receipts Dean Martin wouldn’t work in a travelog!! And who needs a ‘story line’ to watch DEAN MARTIN go on a romantic rampage with the world’s most ravishing battalion of beauties??? THAT’S what matters! THE PLOT? Let DEAN MARTIN worry about the specifics you just sit back and ENJOY ENJOY!!”
Except for the prose style, which seems to have been lifted intact from the current Marvel Comics Readers’ Mailbag, this is actually quite an accurate description. Dean plays Matt Helm again, and goes to Acapulco, and drives up and down scenic highways with ravishing beauties, and occasionally gets shot at. There is some talk about a flying saucer and great Popular Mechanics dialog like: “You know what happens to people who get caught in an electromagnetic field? They DIE!”
Well, isn’t the Earth just one big electromagnetic field up there in space? But Matt doesn’t let that bother him. Mostly he’s drunk anyway; he gets boozed and stays boozed, and there are more would-be jokes about drinking in this movie than you could distill from a weekend of W. C. Fields. There is even a fight sequence inside a giant vat of beer, and dear old Matt Helm does away with one of his enemies by pushing him into a beer intake valve. Maybe Dean Martin is trying to tell us something. Whoops, there go my week’s receipts.
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