The Helicopter Spies
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| Directed by | Boris Sagal |
| Produced by |
Norman Felton George Lehr Irv Pearlberg Anthony Spinner |
| Written by | Dean Hargrove |
| Starring |
Robert Vaughn David McCallum Bradford Dillman Carol Lynley |
| Music by | Richard Shores Jerry Goldsmith (theme) |
| Cinematography | Fred Koenekamp |
| Edited by | Joseph Dervin John Baxter Rogers |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Helicopter Spies is a 1968 feature-length film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s fourth (and final) season two-part episode "The Prince of Darkness Affair". The episodes were originally broadcast in the United States on October 2, 1967, and October 9, 1967, on NBC. Like the television series, it stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. It is the seventh such feature film that used as its basis a reedited version of one or more episodes from the series. The film was directed by Boris Sagal and written by Dean Hargrove.Carol Lynley,Bradford Dillman,Lola Albright, John Dehner, Julie London, H.M. Wynant, and Roy Jenson also star in the film.
The first four U.N.C.L.E. feature films made significant changes and additions to the episodes from which they were drawn. This movie, like the two immediately before it (“The Spy in the Green Hat” and “The Karate Killers”), makes relatively minimal changes to the episodes. No major scenes were added or removed, and very few trims were made to fit the episodes into the running time of the film. As with the prior movies, though, musical cues and accompanying music was sometimes changed. Also changed were two short scenes that became slightly more risqué than generally shown on American network television at the time (in both movie scenes a shirtless man is in Laurie Sebastian’s bed; in the TV version she is alone). Other minor changes included: a few changed camera angles, some enhanced higher-quality stock footage scenes of a rocket launch at the end, a little more physical contact between Sebastian and a female assistant, an insert of a swinging ax, and a very short scene missing from the television episode showing Solo slipping loose ropes that were binding him while escaping from a boat. When compared to the prior six films, though, this came the closest to simply showing the TV episode intact.
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