One Spy Too Many (1966)

Directed by

Joseph Sargent

Genre

adventure, crime

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

U.N.C.L.E. agent Napoleon Solo and his partner Illya Kuryakin investigate a plot involving a madman named Alexander who wants to conquer the world. Solo also deals with a flirtatious fellow agent named Maude Waverly.

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What happens

One Spy Too Many, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, is a 1966 spy film. It is the 1966 feature-length film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s two-part season two premiere "Alexander the Greater Affair". It is the third such feature film that used as its basis a reedited version of one or more episodes from the series. In this instance, the film took the two-part episode and added in a subplot featuring Yvonne Craig as Maude Waverly, an U.N.C.L.E. operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn); Craig does not appear in the television episodes. Both episodes were written by Dean Hargrove and directed by Joseph Sargent. It also added in and substituted scenes that, while not out of place in a 1960s U.S. spy film, were more explicitly sexual than generally shown on U.S. television at the time. Whereas the earlier U.N.C.L.E. films added material to a single episode to create a feature-length movie, One Spy Too Many removed certain elements of the two-part episode, scenes with Alexander (Rip Torn)'s parents Harry (Charles Seel) and Miriam Baxter (Madge Blake) to allow for the added subplot with Craig and other enhanced scenes within the film's overall running time. This was the last film culled from the series to be theatrically released in the U.S. (in late 1966). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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