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Friday B-Movie Pick: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Saturday, December 19th, 2015

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Richie shows his love for the 60’s TV series with this Cold War era movie. It’s the early 1960’s and the Cold War is running hot. The movie starts with CIA agent Napoleon Solo up against KBG agent Illya Kuryakin. Kuryakin doesn’t stop Solo from getting the daughter of a German scientist out of East Berlin, but he comes a damn closer than Solo is used to. So when they are told they have to team a few days later, there is hostility and mistrust. This is an origin story, about how the U.N.C.L.E team was formed and the enemy agents learned to work together. I enjoyed, but then as a child of the 60’s I remember seeing this show when I was very young. I saw a lot more of The Avengers and The Wild, Wild West, which are of a similar theme. Check it out, it’s a good spy story with a touch of humor.

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