Open Channel D: The Man From UNCLE Affair

Photo: Amanda Demme 15 Things You Learn While Hanging Out With Armie Hammer By  Kyle Buchanan @kylebuchanan 11. But don’t get him wrong: He loved  The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , too.  Guy Ritchie’s 2015 spy movie is an  underrated gem  that bombed at the box office but has since built a cult following. Hammer starred as a Russian agent opposite Henry Cavill and Alicia Vikander, and he still counts the movie as one of his favorite filming experiences. “It was glorious,” he said. “White-tablecloth lunches and amazing meals all across Europe and hanging out with Guy Ritchie, who’s the coolest fucker in the entire world.” Still, Hammer felt like he had hit his limit when it came to making big studio films. “I was so happy and having a great time, but at the end of the day, I wanted to finish a project feeling like I had almost been transformed as a person. You only get that on movies where you have an exceptional amount of skin in the game and everybody i...

The Man From UNCLE Episode 19 The Secret Scepter Affair Writer: Anthony Spinner Director: Marc Daniels Guests: Gene Raymond (Colonel Morgan), Ziva Rodman (Zia), Lili Darvas (Madamme Karim) Filmed : 08-14 December 1964 Premiere : 08 February 1965 Places: Somewhere in the Sahara, Marseille (France) Acts titles: 1 - "Drop Zone: the Middle East" 2 - "A Boxful of Death" 3 - "The Bear-pit Polka" 4 - "The Scepter Secret" The affair: Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin parachute to a fortress somewhere in the Sahara and are picked up by soldier Zia. They are just training. The group meet Colonel Morgan, to whom Solo served during the Korean War. Morgan comes to save the country's elected new premier Karim. Solo and Illya warns that he will act on their own (as a favor to Morgan) using only anesthetic arrows. Morgan plan is to steal the golden scepter symbolizing power in the country, taking the power to Karim...

Reappraisal: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ is stylish, fast-paced fun Max Michalsky For the Daily Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 6:02pm In 2015, director Guy Ritchie (“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”) released “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” a Cold War spy caper featuring Henry Cavill (“Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice”), Alicia Vikander (“Submergence”) and Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name”) as a motley crew of international spies hunting for a missing warhead. The film seemed to be one nobody had asked for, adapted from a low-brow 1964 television series of the same name. What’s more, it opened just weeks after spy-movie blockbuster “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.” As a result, ticket sales were less than spectacular. With tepid critical reviews, the film came and went as little more than a blip on the 2015 summer movie radar. Today the film remains one of the most underrated spy films to come out of the last decade, featuring dazzling stylization, irresis...

Peter Abraham Haskell (October 15, 1934 – April 12, 2010) was an American actor who worked primarily in television. Haskell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Rose Veronica (née Golden) and geophysicist Norman Haskell. He attended Browne & Nichols and later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard University following a two-year stint in the United States Army where he rose to the rank of Private First Class. Haskell's plan to study at Columbia Law School was derailed when he was cast in the off-Broadway play The Love Nest, with James Earl Jones and Sally Kirkland. The play closed after only 13 performances but led to his being cast in an episode of Death Valley Days. Guest appearances on The Outer Limits, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ben Casey, The Fugitive, The F.B.I. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Big Valley, Mannix, Medical Center, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Vega$, B. J. and the Bear, Charlie's Angels, The A-...