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Pluskylang Great Film overall

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

StuOz Another spy adventure with the men from UNCLE.I am okay with the spy genre but I don't actually call myself a fan of spy movies/TV shows. I am indeed a fan of 1960s adventure shows (Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, QM's The Invaders, etc) and this is why I am drawn to the UNCLE movies. And I like Robert Vaughn as Solo.One Spy Too Too Many is taken from the second season of the UNCLE series and it is fine entertainment. I notice all these UNCLE movies are required to have the word "Spy" in the title, which does make it a bit hard to remember which UNCLE movie you are getting. Perhaps Alexander VS UNCLE would have been a better title for this?Don't be turned off by this being just a TV episode re-edited into a movie...the dialogue and direction is fine here! In fact, I like this more than many of the 007 feature films.

gridoon2018 Unlike "One Of Our Spies Is Missing", the title of "One Spy Too Many" is well-chosen: the extraneous "spy" is played by Dorothy Provine, who is quite funny as the eager and persistent Tracey. As a feature-length film, "One Spy Too Many" is also about 20 minutes too long, and it gets painfully slow at times. But there are highlights spread over its length: the chess match with people acting as the pawns, the elaborate tomb death traps, Napoleon's fight with a muscle-bound gorilla in a gymnasium, Illya being chased by agricultural vehicles and almost getting mummified, and a climax that's worthy of a Bond movie (with the exception of the black-and-white stock footage of the plane explosion!). The three main villains are well-cast, but the "will gas" that gets stolen from an army base in the opening sequence is never really used. I was not surprised to learn that Yvonne Craig's scenes in this film did not exist in the original TV episodes; her innuendo with Napoleon (I love the way she pronounces that word), as well as the camera panning over her nude body push the boundaries of the PG rating! **1/2 out of 4.

Victor Field 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.

bob the moo '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.