The Venetian Affair "Tweety" Sidney Toler

Sidney Toler

This breezy backstager is memorable for its Burton Lane-Ira Gershwin score and for the once-in-a-lifetime collaboration of three legendary musical-world directors: Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) behind the camera and Gower Champion and Bob Fosse (future directors of

A bigger surprise: the slap-down our hero gets from costar Patricia Ellis (Picture Snatcher

is chilling as the greed-maddened killer

Oscar-nominated film about American paratroopers who land in Burma and attempt to take out a strategic Japanese outpost

The Venetian Affair "Tweety" Sidney TolerA U. S. diplomat turns suicide bomber at a nuclear disarmament summit. Why would a respected official go rogue? It's up to ex CIA operative Bill Fenner to uncover the mystery. Robert Vaughn's smooth, often playful Napoleon Solo of The Man from U. N. C. L. E. was one of the superspy era's best known agents, but playfulness takes a backseat to intrigue when Vaughn takes on the role of Fenner for the earnest non UNCLE maneuverings of The Venetian Affair.