How to Steal the World
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| How To Steal The World | |
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| Directed by | Sutton Roley |
| Produced by | Norman Felton George Lehr Irv Pearlberg Anthony Spinner |
| Written by | Norman Hudis |
| Starring | Robert Vaughn David McCallum Eleanor Parker Barry Sullivan |
| Music by | Richard Shores |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editing by | Joseph Dervin Harry Knapp |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | March 7, 1969 |
| Running time | 89 Min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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- This article is about a film. For the album of the same name, see Helicopter Girl.
How To Steal the World is a 1968 adventure/action film based on the series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., with Robert Vaughn and David McCallum reprising their roles as secret agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. It also stars Barry Sullivan and Eleanor Parker.
It was originally telecast as the final two episodes of the TV series, as "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair".
[edit] Plot
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Ilya Kuryakin (David McCallum) investigate when fellow agent Robert Kingsley (Barry Sullivan) and European general Maximilian Harmon (Leslie Nielsen) disappear. Shortly afterward, five of the world's top scientists are mysteriously abducted. The trail leads to the Himalayas, where Kingsley has set himself up as potential world dictator, hoping to use the combined talents of the scientists to build a device that will spread mind-controlling gas throughout the planet. However, his wife Margitta Kingsley (Eleanor Parker) has different plans for the gas.
[edit] Cast
- Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
- David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
- Barry Sullivan as Robert Kingsley
- Eleanor Parker as Margitta Kingsley
- Leslie Nielsen as General Maximilian Harmon
- Leo G. Carroll as Alexander Waverly
- Tony Bill as Steven Garrow
- Peter Mark Richman as Mr. Webb
- Albert Paulsen as Dr. Kurt Erikson
- Inger Stratton as Anna Erikson
- Hugh Marlowe as Grant
- Dan O'Herlihy as Prof. David Garrow
