I didn't remember correctly. You're right about date of
release, but I seem
to remember there was a copyight hassle which kept Casino
Royale from being
released until long after it had been made. I doubt the delay
was as long as
five years though.
The first Dean Martin/Matt Helm film, The Silencers, came out
in 1966,
the same year as the great spy-spoof Our Man Flint, starring
one of the
coolest men alive, James Coburn.
Coburn would have been my pick for a serious Helm movie. He
even looked
close to Hamilton's description of Helm as a
"beanpole".
Mark Blumenthal
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