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Director
  
Ray Austin

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Return of the Man from UNCLE movie poster
Release date
  
April 5, 1983

Writer
  
Sam Rolfe (developer: original series), Michael Sloan

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen-Years-Later Affair is a made-for-television film based on the series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum reprising the roles they had originated on that program. Several of the crew from the series also worked on the movie, which was produced by Viacom rather than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leo G. Carroll had died long before the movie began production, so Patrick Macnee was recruited instead to appear as an entirely different character, Sir John Raleigh, who had presumably taken over as Number 1 of Section I, the Director of U.N.C.L.E., after Alexander Waverly had either retired or died, and Carrolls photograph was displayed prominently in many scenes that featured Macnees Sir John.

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When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

Plot

The criminal international organization THRUSH steals the bomb H975 and demands $350,000,000, to be delivered within 72 hours by their former antagonist, Napoleon Solo. This forces U.N.C.L.E., the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, to reactivate the two top agents of its Section II, Solo and Illya Kuryakin, both of whom had left its ranks 15 years before and are now pursuing other lines of civilian work—Kuryakin as a fashion designer whose resignation was acrimonious and precipitated by a professional disaster, Solo as a marketer of computers and independent businessman.

Equipped in their original fashion, Solo and Kuryakin search for the bomb and attempt to close down permanently what proves to be a splinter THRUSH group; the original organization had fragmented in 1968 after its failure in "The Seven Wonders of the World Affair" and has yet to regain the power to threaten worldwide law and order that it had possessed up to that time.

Major cast

  • Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo
  • David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
  • Patrick Macnee as Sir John Raleigh
  • Gayle Hunnicutt as Andrea Markovich
  • Geoffrey Lewis as Janus
  • Anthony Zerbe as Justin Sepheran
  • Keenan Wynn as Piers Castillian
  • Simon Williams as Nigel Pennington-Smythe
  • George Lazenby as "J.B."

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