One Spy Too Many


One Spy Too Many is the 1966 featurelength film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. s twopart season two premiere episode Alexander the Greater Affair. It, as does the television series, stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. It is the third such feature film that used as its basis a reedited version of one or more episodes from the series. In this instance, the film took the twopart episode and added in a subplot featuring Yvonne Craig as an U.N.C.L.E. operative carrying on a flirtatious relationship with Napoleon Solo Robert Vaughn Craig does not appear in the television episodes.

The film opens with Alexander Rip Torn stealing a chemical weapon from a military base. The weapon causes an enemys troops to lose the will to fight, thereby making conquest in battle far easier. This is part of Alexanders dual goal to conquer the world in the manner of Alexander the Great and to break each of the major moral codes in so doing which essentially means the ten commandments as detailed throughout the movie.U.N.C.L.E. becomes involved after the theft of the weapon and agents Napoleon Solo Vaughn and Illya Kuryakin McCallum are assigned. Also searching for Alexander is his estranged wife Tracey Dorothy Provine, although her motive is to serve him with divorce papers that will allow her to get she put into the marriage. Through a series of coincidences and Traceys focused efforts to trail the U.N.C.L.E agents to find Alexander, Solo, Kuryakin, and Tracey end up joining forces. As a result, they are at various times captured, tortured, left to die in an elaborate way in an Egyptian tomb, and otherwise thwarted by Alexander throughout the film. ........

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