Man From Uncle - One Spy Too Many - Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Yvonne Craig, David Opatoshu - 1966

Price CAD 26.99 Seller Learmedia Rare and Classic Videos Megalomaniac Alexander wants to be like Alexander The Great. His plan is to commit the world's greatest crimes to expand his industrial empire. Every crime is specifically designed to contradict the ten commandments. U.N.C.L.E. goes after him when he steals a secret chemical from the US military. Solo and Kuryakin team up with Alexander's former wife, Tracey, to stop him from becoming the most powerful man in the world. This movie is made from the "The Alexander The Greater Affair", parts one and two, from season two of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. viewer's comments: - Good 60's fun without being too silly 'One spy too many' is two episodes of the Man from UNCLE TV show put together to create a film length version. Alexander (Rip Torn) is breaking each of the ten commandments as he carries out his master plan towards world dominance. When he steals a chemical weapon from a military base, leaving a number 8 behind, UNCLE agents Napoleon Solo (Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (McCallum) join forces with Alexander's estranged wife (Dorothy Provine) to stop his plan before it's too late. Like most UNCLE films this is has TV-show production values and is generally not meant to be taken too seriously. Having said that the plot is not that ridiculous compared to some of the spy spoofs' other storylines, and Rip Torn makes for a good villain. The story manages to be fun without being too silly. However the idea of a drug that makes you calm and peaceful will probably not seem too farfetched for many of us! Vaughn has the most fun as ladies man Solo and gets the lead role of the two agents. McCallum always seemed strangely sidelined and here is no different. He doesn't get any girls, any laughs and doesn't get that many fights either. However the two do manage to have a type of disapproving chemistry between them. Provine is a bit annoying as Tracy Alexander and is not a great female lead. Other minor female characters aren't key to the story but do provide a flirtatious sexy feel to the film especially the beautiful 'Control' (Yvonne Craig who also played Batgirl!) and Princess Nicole (Donna Michelle who played another role is the earlier UNCLE film "The spy with my face"). They both provide tasteful sexiness that feels at home in a 1960's film. Rip Torn is almost unrecognisably young as the lead villain and plays him well - with an air of uncaring evil as he calmly goes about his businesses. There are actually no really bad performances in this film! Also, having been left out in "The spy with my face" that old friend makes a reappearance - the UNCLE theme tune! It now feels more like an UNCLE movie. It's all a bit of fun, but it manages to have good performances, a reasonable plot and some dated action in order to make itself a fun, Saturday afternoon family film. Any fan of the TV series should be a fan of this. - "Enjoyable" The third spin-off from "The Man From UNCLE" and the first to be compiled from a two-part episode. In this case, "The Alexander The Greater Affair", (part one: 17/09/1965) and (part two: 26/09/1965). The film's budget was increased from the usual $300,000 to $550,000 because MGM intended to release it in cinemas. On its opening week in London it took $282,000 setting an all time record in the history of MGM. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuriyakin prevent a modern dress version of Alexander the Great (Rip Torn) from taking over the world. This he does by breaking each of the ten commandments and number 7, "thou shall not kill", he intends to break by murdering a foreign president sympathetic to western desires. One Spy Too Many is an enjoyable outing with plenty of action including Solo's improbable fight with an athlete twice his size and Kuriyakin battles with several assassins armed with, believe it or not, various farm machinery. - The first theatrical spinoff from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." to come from two RELATED episodes ("To Trap A Spy" was "The Vulcan Affair" + extra footage, and "The Spy With My Face" was "The Double Affair" + extra footage*, but this movie was first shown on American TV as the show's two-parter "The Alexander The Greater Affair"), "One Spy Too Many" has Solo and Kuryakin go up against evil millionaire industrialist (aren't they all?) Alexander, who as part of his plan to take over the world by breaking all of the Ten Commandments has stolen a will gas, which our heroes have to get back. This is often and misleadingly called a spoof by people who can't understand the difference between an espionage show with a sense of humour (which "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." was in the beginning) and an out-and-out comedy (which is what it became in its third year, giving the show a very misguided "Batman" feel - I defy anybody to watch Solo dancing with a man in a gorilla suit in "The My Friend The Gorilla Affair" without screaming). Though it's pretty tongue-in-cheek, the danger our heroes are in is real more often than not; it does betray its TV roots more than any of the other "movies," with several of the show's trademark going-out-of-focus-at-the-end-of-an-act shots preserved, an all-too-obvious "To be continued" moment and at least one really bad use of stock footage. But with Messrs. Vaughn and McCallum in fine fettle, and Rip Torn having a high old time as the evil madman (and he wasn't even Larry Sanders' producer then), this is as entertaining today as it must have been when it debuted on TV nearly forty years ago. Would I be lynched if I said I actually like these more than Bond? *Said extra footage was eventually turned into "The Four Steps Affair." That episode has never been shown on British TV, and indeed neither have most of the other episodes that became movies - except for "The Five Daughters Affair" (i.e. "The Karate Killers"), shown in its original two-part format on the UK answer to TV Land, Granada Plus. - Cast overview, first billed only: Robert Vaughn .... Napoleon Solo David McCallum .... Illya Kuryakin Rip Torn .... Alexander Dorothy Provine .... Tracy Alexander Leo G. Carroll .... Alexander Waverly Yvonne Craig .... Maude Waverly David Opatoshu .... Kavon David Sheiner .... Parviz Donna Michelle .... Princess Nicole Leon Lontoc .... General Don-Phouma Robert Karnes .... Colonel Hawks Clarke Gordon .... Claxon James Hong .... Prince Phanong Cal Bolder .... Inge Lindstrum Carole Williams .... Receptionist Runtime: UK:98 min / USA:102 min Country: USA Language: English Color: Color (Metrocolor)

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