Solo

Robert Vaughn was shooting the movie The Bridge at Remagen in Czechoslovakia in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Soviet Union. His experience and escape are now the basis for a play, aptly entitled Solo Behind the Curtain being broadcast next month:

Vaughn was placed under house arrest in his hotel room as tanks swept through the streets. He ultimately planned a daring escape with Ben Gazzara that rivaled anything his character Napoleon Solo would have attempted on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Vaughn was presented with the script for the radio play by the writer Tracy Spottiswoode with a request for him to narrate the story. Vaughn so loved the script that he ended up agreeing to playing himself in the play. Broadcast is set for November 5 on BBC Radio 4

Cool. And a lot more interesting to listen to than fireworks.

Note: As a follow up to the post about the Aliens gun you may be interested to know that Napoleon Solo’s gun now has its own website (and here’s the spy car).

And this is kind of sad: You can now hire Vaughn, William Shatner and erm… Erik Estrada.