Your Favorite UNCLEs Have a Date With Danger!

This film is essentially the original pilot for the popular 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It was expanded to 92 minutes and shot in color for theatrical release. Robert Vaughn plays the master spy and adept action hero Napoleon Solo. He works for a shadowy supra-governmental enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. His partner is the suave Russian secret agent Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum). In this pilot, a sinister organization called W.A.S.P. assassinates the president of an African republic and his assistants. Solo is enlisted to stop W.A.S.P.'s plans to take over the country and turn it into a dictatorship. The plot and action proceed at lightning speed against the backdrop of a brewing Cold War superpower confrontation. Through a series of mishaps, a housewife, Elaine May Donaldson (Pat Crowley) is dragged into the fight and helps Solo thwart the coup attempt. Also released as a film in 1966 was another expanded episode from the TV series, The Spy with My Face. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide

U.N.C.L.E. discovers that Thrush killer Andrew Vulcan plans to assassinate a visiting African leader, Premier Ashumen, while he's on a tour of Vulcan's factory. Napoleon Solo enlists the help of Vulcan's old girlfriend, Elaine May Donaldson, who pretends to be a rich widow and gets closer to Vulcan, trying to find out if her old friend really is the bad man that Solo says he is. At the same time, she also enjoys the life of luxury and wealth and finds it hard to accept that she has to go back to boring married life after the operation is over. The film is made from the first season episodes "The Vulcan Affair" (09/22/64) and "The Four Steps Affair" (02/22/65) from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.-Written by Daniel Bolton

Director:Don Medford

Writer:Sam Rolfe (writer)

Cast (in credits order)
Robert Vaughn ... Napoleon Solo (archive footage)
Luciana Paluzzi ... Angela (archive footage)
Pat Crowley ... Elaine May Bender Donaldson (archive footage) (as Patricia Crowley)
Fritz Weaver ... Andrew Vulcan (archive footage)
William Marshall ... Sekue Ashumen (archive footage)
Will Kuluva ... Mr. Allison (archive footage)
David McCallum ... Illya Kuryakin (archive footage)
Ivan Dixon ... Jean Francis Soumarin (archive footage)
Victoria Shaw ... Gracie Ladovan (archive footage)
Eric Berry ... Alfred Ghist (archive footage)
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