 Mathews co-starred with Van Johnson in "The Last Blitzkrieg" (1959), a war film for Sam Katzman, and "Man on a String" (1960) with Ernest Borgnine (Mathews replaced Cliff Robertson for the latter).In "The Last Blitzkrieg" Mathews was cast against type as a fanatical Nazi.He did an episode of "Goodyear Theatre" and went to Italy to make "The Warrior Empress" (1960) with Tina Louise.