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Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema is showing a film festival dedicated to the movies of Man From U.N.C.L.E. stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. Tonight and tomorrow, there is a double feature of Vaughn's "The Venetian Affair" (in Ib Tech!)  and McCallum's "Sol Madrid". On Friday and Saturday, there will be an U.N.C.L.E. double feature of "The Spy With My Face" and "One Spy Too Many"-- all in glorious 35mm. Click here for details. ...

"The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 8 Movie Collection" is available on Amazon USA for only $29.49. The set consists of the the two-part episodes that originally aired on TV and which were later released as theatrical feature films. Of the eight films, only three were released in the United States. In some cases, additional footage with new characters were inserted into the episodes for theatrical distribution.

The set contains the following films:

To Trap a Spy The Spy With My Face One Spy Too Many One of Our Spies is Missing The Spy in the Green Hat The Karate Killers The Helicopter Spies How to Steal the World One Spy Too Many

The DVDs are released through the Warner Archive, which means they are region-free and can play on any international DVD system.

 All of the feature films star Robert Vaughn, David McCallum and Leo G. Carroll. 

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An adaptation of 60s series The Man From U.N.C.L.E has been trapped in development hell for years. Ti charts the spy show’s tortuous journey to the big screen...

For those of you that were kids or teenagers during the 1990s and were into cult TV, you will know that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a staple of Friday nights.

Although it was made in the 1960s, during the 1990s, BBC2 would show the likes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray at 6pm on a Friday night, and each time they would be followed by an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

As such, the phrase “Open channel six”, the catchy theme and the agents’ yellow triangular badges signifying their rank in the organisation became very familiar...

For those unfamiliar with the series, it followed global spy force U.N.C.L.E (The United Network...

Thanks for the identification of Claudia Cardinale in the masthead. I've always wondered about the guy on the left. Who is it? I sometimes think it looks like Sean Connery, but I can only think of one Western he was in. Any help appreciated!

Martin

Retro responds: Right you are, Martin- it's Connery in the title role of the 1968 Western Shalako. Thanks for asking- it's gives us an excuse to reproduce the movie's cool original U.S. one sheet. For an interview with producer Euan Lloyd about the trials and tribulations of bringing this Louis L'Amour story to the screen, see Cinema Retro issue #2. Before anyone asks, the actor to the left of Clint Eastwood is Robert Vaughn in the Man From U.N.C.L.E. feature film The Spy With My Face.

Turner Classic Movies (North America) will present back-to-back showings of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. feature films To Trap a Spy and The Spy With My Face starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum tomorrow (Thursday) morning beginning at 6:00 Am (Est). The two films were released in 1966 by MGM as a double feature that scored tremendous box-office success internationally. Following the U.N.C.L.E. films, TCM will show a Herman's Hermits double feature comprising of Hold On! and Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. Doesn't get any better than this for retro movie lovers- and remember TCM is now being broadcast on a separate channel in Hi Def- so check your cable guides.