To Trap A Spy (1966)

A housewife (Pat Crowley) is recruited by a secret government organization called the United Network Command for Law Enforcement into hooking up with her college boyfriend (Fritz Weaver), who is a wealthy industrialist suspected of being an officer in an international criminal organization called WASP. Her mission is to spy on him and get information about an upcoming assassination. Directed by Don Medford (THE HUNTING PARTY), this was the original 1964 pilot for the TV series THE MAN FROM UNCLE and released theatrically in the U.S. in 1966. The pilot was shown in B&W but the film is in color and with new footage including a subplot with Luciana Paluzzi as a femme fatale bad girl, not unlike her Fiona Volpe in THUNDERBALL (1965). When the pilot was picked up, Will Kuluva as the head of UNCLE was replaced by Leo G. Carroll. On its own merits as a feature film, it's not bad at all and added footage with Luciana Paluzzi is "hotter" than anything the series was allowed to show. With Robert Vaughn, Victoria Shaw, David McCallum (whose role would be considerably enlarged for the series), Ivan Dixon, Rupert Crosse and William Marshall.