''How To Steal the World'' is a 1968 American

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– adventure film, taken from a two-part episode of the TV series ''

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'', with

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and

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as secret agents

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and

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. The film also stars

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, Tony Bill,

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, Inger Stratton,

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, and Dan O'Herlihy. It was originally telecast as the final episode of the series, " The Seven Wonders of the World Affair". The feature version is the only U.N.C.L.E. film not to include

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's theme music. The film was directed by Sutton Roley and written by Norman Hudis.

Plot

U.N.C.L.E. agents

(

) and

(

) investigate when fellow agent Robert Kingsley (

) and European general Maximilian Harmon (

) 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 (

) has different plans for the gas.

Cast

as Robert Kingsley *

as Margitta Kingsley *

as General Maximilian Harmon *

Leo G. Carroll Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. In a career of more than forty years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including ''Spellbound'', '' Strangers on a Train'' and ''North by Northwest'' and in thre ...

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* Tony Bill as Steven Garrow *

as Mr. Webb *

as Dr. Kurt Erikson *Inger Stratton as Anna Erikson *

as Grant * Dan O'Herlihy as Prof. David Garrow

Release

" The Seven Wonders of the World Affair" was originally telecast as the final two episodes of the TV series, ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', which aired on

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on January 8, 1968 and January 15, 1968. The film was released on

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on November 2, 2011 by

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