The Spy With My Face (1965) and To Trap a Spy (1966) (MGM) (1966)

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NOTICE! PROMOTION AIDS U.N. C.L.E. IDENTIFICATION These cards can be printed up locally and distributed as contest or door prizes. Print only one side, using the other for your playdate, and send out trench-coated usherettes to slyly slip them to passers-by. Still VNST-1 ATTACHE CASE STUNT A hidden photographer, a pretty girl in a trench coat, and an attache case marked ‘TOP SECRET—return to Central Intelligence files!"’ can bring you a lot of coverage. Have your girl slink about your area, with the photographer recording the public's reaction to this shady character. Your newspapers will love the candid crowd shots. Lead this off with an ad like “MISSING: black briefcase, lost on Main Street. If found, please call Central Intelligence at (your theatre phone) ROBERT VAUGHN STANDEE Make a life-size silhouette cut-out of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., back with a board, and use as a theatre front piece or on your marquee. Still SOLO-84 LOBBY DISPLAY Promote the U.N.C.L.E. Target-gun set from your local dealer and set it up in your lobby, enticing patrons to test their marksmanship against The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Put it on wheels for a BALLYHOO Blow up still, cut out face, have patron put his face over shoulders and ‘‘Be Photographed with The Man from U.N.C.L.E.!"" Mounted on wheels, this is a crowd-drawing traveling stunt. Still VN-60E TEAM UP WITH U.N. C.L.E. Promote a local sports event between students, billing the two teams as the U.N.C.L.E.’S vs. the THRUSHES. Youth organizations or student all-stars will go for this, if not, match your theater's staff against your competition. THE BIRD FROM THRUSH Have a man go around with your wellworn trench coat with a bird in a cage or a tamed bird on his shoulder, with a sign, ‘HELP! I’m being held captive by a THRUSH agent, please send word to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. at the —The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” mobile display. (See listing) State Theatre, (your phone number).” W R i T E I N . « » A-write-in contest on ‘Why | would like to be the man/woman from U.N.C.L.E.’’, awarding passes for the top ten letters and presenting the U.N.C.L.E. ID cards to each writer, could enroll many listeners. L O O K A L I K E « « « The plot of THE SPY WITH MY FACE centers on a THRUSH double of Napoleon Solo being sent to U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters on a sabotage mission. Start a local ‘‘SPY WITH YOUR FACE” contest, promoting prizes for the nearest double in your town of Robert Vaughn and/or David McCallum. T R E AS U R E H U N a .« « Load a top-secret looking briefcase with a season’s pass or a promoted gift certifi cate and hide it in a prominent public location. Then give daily clues, working as teaser publicity, via radio or newspaper tie-ups. € O LO R [ N G C O N 7 E ST . « « Makeup acoloring contest herald with the 3-column mat of Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, and distribute it wherever the children congregate, awarding passes for the best coloring. Or, run the mat in connection with a newspaper contest. (Mat 3X) THEATRE TRAILER Available through your local National Screen Service branch. TELEVISION TRAILERS 60 and 20 second spots are available in black and white and color from your local MGM Field Press Representative. RADIO E.T.'s Featuring the Big Beat background music from the show, these excitement-filled 60 and 30-second spots, available from your MGM Field Press Rep., are naturals for your local stations that swing. NOTE: All trailers and E.T.’s are available singularly on each picture, or in combination. When ordering, please specify. All of the exploitation information listed in this pressbook, while primarily intended for the 2 Feature combination, is also applicable to either ‘THE SPY WITH MY FACE” or ‘‘TO TRAP A SPY” playing singularly. Tie-in with recruiting stations, or run a “‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E. salutes the Green Berets’’ promotion. Still 6011-60 JUDO, KARATE Self-defense schools are eager to get publicity with a gratis demonstration in theatre or for your media contacts. Still VN-401 MEN’S FASHIONS For formal wear displays — The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is the world’s best dressed spy. Still SOLO-10 From the June 1965 GLAMOUR layout on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for your barber and beauty salon tie-ups. Still VN-ST-2 TRAVEL AGEN ‘Be a man of the world, TRAVEL — like those globe-trotting Men from U.N.C.L.E.”’ Still VN-69E U.N.C.L.E. TOYS BOB. With U.N.C.L.E. merchandise already on their shelves, merchants will want this still for display. Still VN-65E