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Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 8:33 pm Post subject: To Trap a Spy (1964 TV movie) |
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[Also released as: "The Vulcan Affair"]
This is it! The first "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." episode, a pilot that was expanded after it's 1964 TV premiere so that it could be exhibited theatrically.
Series regulars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, and Leo G. Carroll all seem less comfortable with their roles than they were later on in the series, but it's still good fun.
The villain is Fritz Weaver, head of the Vulcan Chemical Company, who has good capitalistic reasons for doing bad things to the president of a young African nation (William Marshall).
Lovely Patricia Crowley is the fetching heroine. Also starring Luciana Paluzzi ("Thunderball", "The Green Slime") and Ivan Dixon. Directed by Don Medford.
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 7:14 am Post subject: |
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The version I have seen of the movie, does not have Leo G. Carroll in it. It has Will Kuluva as Mr. Allison, the head of U.N.C.L.E. North America.
Will Kuluva was in the pilot "Solo". NBC gave instructions to replace the 'foreign' guy. NBC meant David McCallum, the studio thought they meant Mr. Kuluva.
For the TV series, they refilmed all of Mr. Kuluva's scenes with Leo G. Carroll.
The show was a huge hit in the 60s, but would it have been as popular without the team of Solo and Kuryakin?
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| Krel wrote: | The version I have seen of the movie, does not have Leo G. Carroll in it. It has Will Kuluva as Mr. Allison, the head of U.N.C.L.E. North America.
For the TV series, they refilmed all of Mr. Kuluva's scenes with Leo G. Carroll.
The show was a huge hit in the 60s, but would it have been as popular without the team of Solo and Kuryakin |
It certainly wouldn't have been as popular if the two main characters hadn't been actors who appealed to the audience as much as Robert and David. It always boils down to the audience's reaction to the faces they see the most.
Here's a funny idea: somewhere out there in a parallel universe are two hit series, one which features a pair of suave secret agents and the other which follows the adventures of a starship captain and his first officer.
Picture Vaughn and McCallum as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. Vaughn would have to stretch a bit to show the kind of brass and bluster needed to play Kirk, but McCallum could slip into the Vulcan role like a comfy pair of shoes!
(Okay, when you're done laughing, picture the other side of the coin.)
Shatner and Nimoy as the dapper secret agents.
Come on, admit it. This would actually work! 
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| And in another parallel universe we have Jack Lord as the starship captain of the Enterprise & Martin Landau as his human/Vulcan science officer. |
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Excellent suggestion! I think it would work.
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| If the cast of Star Trek thought that William Shatner undermined their roles just wait until Jack Lord got done with 'em! |
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