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The Karate Killers (1967)

The Karate Killers poster
Directed by
Barry Shear
Genre
spy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two secret agents travel the world to stop a global crime syndicate from stealing a valuable formula. They face double crosses and fight off enemy operatives along the way.

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What happens

The Karate Killers is a 1967 American spy film and feature-length film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s third season two-part episode "The Five Daughters Affair". The episodes were originally broadcast in the United States on March 31, 1967, and April 7, 1967, on NBC. It, as does the television series, stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. It is the sixth such feature film that used as its basis a reedited version of one or more episodes from the series. Joan Crawford, Telly Savalas, Herbert Lom, Diane McBain, Jill Ireland and Kim Darby are among those in the cast. The film was directed by Barry Shear and written by Norman Hudis with the story by Boris Ingster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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