Product Description

"Nitro and gylcerine... and I light the fuse!"

Two millionaire playboys - one a peer of the realm, born into money, and the other a self-made man who fought his way out of the New York slums - are conned by a retired judge into righting wrongs in a series that combines action, style, humour and panache in large quantities!

Regarded by many as the finest of Lew Grade s ITC film series, The Persuaders! stars Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as the mismatched playboys with an eye for the ladies and a penchant for landing themselves in trouble.
Alongside all 24 episodes are a wealth of special features, including:

THE MORNING AFTER - REMEMBERING THE PERSUADERS!

A feature-length documentary with contributions from Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, producer Robert S. Baker, production executive Johnny Goodman and others.

COMMENTARIES
Featuring Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Robert S. Baker,
Johnny Goodman, Alvin Rakoff and Malcolm Christopher.

AVROSKOOP
A rarely seen edition of the Dutch television magazine programme reporting from the Pinewood set of The Persuaders! episode The Man in the Middle.

TOP OF THE POPS
Promotional film for John Barry s single of The Persuaders! featuring Pan s People.

EUROPEAN PROMOTIONAL SPOTS
Featuring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.

THE SAINT: THE EX-KING OF DIAMONDS
Regarded as the pilot for The Persuaders!, this episodes sees Simon Templar join forces with an antagonistic American on the Riviera.
...and much more!
 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6096 in DVD
• Brand: NETWORK (FR)
• Released on: 2011-09-19
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 9
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 9
• Running time: 1300 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman