Murderers' Row (sometimes spelled Murderer's Row) is the title of a 1966 American comedy-spy-fi motion picture starring Dean Martin and very loosely based upon the Matt Helm spy novel Murderers' Row by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962.
The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It turns out to have been a model at a demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Internation...
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Murderers' Row (sometimes spelled Murderer's Row) is the title of a 1966 American comedy-spy-fi motion picture starring Dean Martin and very loosely based upon the Matt Helm spy novel Murderers' Row by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962.
The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It turns out to have been a model at a demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Brotherhood of International Government and Order ("BIG O"). BIG O is a One World organisation with a goal of world domination that previously appeared in The Silencers.
With the aid of a mole, BIG O conducts a worldwide assassination campaign against various secret agents working for ICE (Intelligence Counter Espionage). Matt Helm fakes his own death, as in the next year's Bond film, You Only Live Twice, that also would begin by faking the lead character's demise and having his funeral. Helm meets his "M"-type boss, Mac (James Gregory) to receive his twin mission...
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