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C'era due volte...

Titolo originale: Once Upon a Spy
  • Film per la TV
  • 1980
  • 1h 31min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
4,9/10
341
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Christopher Lee, Ted Danson, and Mary Louise Weller in C'era due volte... (1980)
AzioneDrammaSpiaThriller

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaTed Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.

  • Regia
    • Ivan Nagy
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Jimmy Sangster
    • Lemuel Pitkin
  • Star
    • Ted Danson
    • Mary Louise Weller
    • Christopher Lee
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    4,9/10
    341
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Ivan Nagy
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Jimmy Sangster
      • Lemuel Pitkin
    • Star
      • Ted Danson
      • Mary Louise Weller
      • Christopher Lee
    • 12Recensioni degli utenti
    • 9Recensioni della critica
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
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    Interpreti principali20

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    Ted Danson
    Ted Danson
    • Jack Chenault
    Mary Louise Weller
    Mary Louise Weller
    • Paige Tannehill
    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Marcus Valorium
    Eleanor Parker
    Eleanor Parker
    • The Lady
    Leonard Stone
    Leonard Stone
    • Dr. Webster
    Terry Lester
    Terry Lester
    • Rudy
    Jo McDonnell
    Jo McDonnell
    • Susan
    Lillian Müller
    Lillian Müller
    • Christine
    • (as Yuliis Ruval)
    Irena Ferris
    • Greta
    Burke Byrnes
    • Burkle
    Gary Dontzig
    • Klaus
    Bobb Hopkins
    Bobb Hopkins
    • Hans
    Vicky Perry
    • The Cashier
    John Hostetter
    John Hostetter
    • Chief
    • (as John R. Hostetter)
    William Wintersole
    William Wintersole
    • Commander
    Denise Hayes
    • Co-Pilot
    George Planco
    • Gate Guard
    Fil Formicola
    • Security Man
    • Regia
      • Ivan Nagy
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Jimmy Sangster
      • Lemuel Pitkin
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    Recensioni degli utenti12

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    3Prismark10

    Before the Mac

    I guess this television Movie of the Week planned to be back-door series pilot. A hokum version of The Man from Uncle with the James Bond like theme after the opening titles.

    It stars a young Ted Danson as a government computer expert called in by a mysterious American intelligence service to track down a supercomputer stolen by dastardly Christopher Lee.

    The reluctant Danson is paired up with attractive, blonde agent Mary Louise Weller and they make a good pair and Danson does well with the comedy and drama and has some literate lines although the plot is tosh. The final challenge set by Lee is called the Cat and the Canary with some Pacman type graphics.

    As it was shown in 1980 a few years before films like Wargames and just before the Home Computer boom of the early 1980s, you have big computers the size of several walls that play a nifty game of chess just like the supercomputer in Wargames.

    Danson shows talent which would make him a star a few years later in Cheers, but the the film was rather flimsy. It lacked the spark of the Man from from Uncle and I could not take seriously the secret entrance to the agency's office via a Tunnel of Love ride. From the short of the big wooden roller coaster, it looked like Knott's Berry Park!
    2RodrigAndrisan

    Unless you have something better to do!

    Not great but there are some elements available today in 2021 (the film is made in 1980), they mention terms like "new world structure", "reset", "new order".

    Ted Danson has neither salt nor pepper, the script is predictable and boring, Mary Louise Weller is beautiful and sexy in body-hugging costumes, either black or yellow. And Christopher Lee doesn't have the dominating force as in other movies. But his character fits Bill Gates perfectly.
    5JohnSeal

    Decent made for TV feature

    This strangely endearing Movie of the Week features Ted Danson as a computer expert reluctantly pulled into the orbit of a mysterious American intelligence service run by grand dame Eleanor Parker. Parker needs his expertise to track down super villain Christopher Lee, a wheelchair bound businessman with his eye on world domination via a super weapon and control of commercial space satellites. Danson is teamed up with secret agent Mary Louise Weller, an attractive and almost believable actress who does her best with the rather hackneyed dialogue. Danson gets the best stuff from screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and shows why he went on to be one of America's favorite comic actors of the decade, and Lee seems to be having a grand time. Good fun if you're in the right mood.
    3planktonrules

    Incredibly dated.

    "Once Upon a Spy" is a TV movie featuring Ted Danson as a computer genius and Christopher Lee as an evil computer genius, Marcus Velorium, bent on controlling the world...much like a Bond villain. But unlike Bond, there is no super-spy to stop the madman...only nice-guy Jack (Danson).

    Being 1980, the concepts of computers sure isn't what we think of today. So, when a supercomputer that is the size of a city block is stolen, folks take notice. As a result, one of the foremost NICE computer scientists, Jack, is brought to a top secret location to talk to some humorless woman...and she recruits him to help investigate the theft. Naturally, the computer is being used to vaporize things from space...and I hate when that happens.

    As I said above, in many ways this plays like a Bond film....a really bad one featuring a leading man who seems completely out of his element. I think this might have worked had it been more of a parody. Instead, however, it just seemed annoying and childish....and would not appeal to most adult viewers...unless you are curious what Danson was doing before he became famous. Even with the scene-chewing Lee as the baddie, this is pretty limp and dated.
    8TheFearmakers

    Mary-Louise Weller & Ted Danson

    One of those failed TV-pilots that then became a standalone TV-movie, ONCE UPON A SPY takes the James Bond aesthetic to the small screen, from formidable (and colorful) technical set pieces to a flaunting trumpet score to a former Bond villain in Christopher Lee, a brilliant computer mogul who, brain-wise, is second to none...

    Well except for Ted Danson, turning in one of those "befuddled geeks who's really a handsome diamond-in-the rough/anti-leading-man" types... and it's no surprise, given his near-future turn in CHEERS, he has great comedic timing...

    Perfectly paired with (and counterbalanced by) sublime ANIMAL HOUSE beauty Mary-Louise Weller, an Alpha Male-like female operative and, after getting Danson's Jack Chenault out of a stuffy office shared with his only friend, a computer the size of a wall, the action is pretty much non-stop...

    So the peripheral world-dominating plot doesn't matters since it's the nifty Odd Couple duo... whether ripping around in a hot-rod on the ground or jumping out of planes in the air... that really matters, and this SPY would have made a genuinely good series (as the creators of REMINGTON STEELE would soon-after prove).

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      Joan Fontaine was originally cast as the head of the spy agency.
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      Watch for a mysterious costume change near the end of the film. One minute, Paige is wearing a rather sexy skintight yellow catsuit, the next she's wearing a top and stretch pants, with the pants in a slightly different shade of yellow.
    • Citazioni

      Jack Chenault: You're leaving?

      Paige Tannehill: Chenault, I fondly hope that I never have to set eyes on you again.

    • Connessioni
      References Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte (1967)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 19 settembre 1980 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Houston, Texas, Stati Uniti(Location)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • David Gerber Productions
      • Columbia Pictures Television
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