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List Price: $94.95 | | Label: A&E HOME VIDEO
Salesrank: 21959
Released: October 31, 2006 |
| Our Price: $27.49 |
| Used Price: $26.49 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They're a pair of playboys with nothing in common but trouble
Roger Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, a classic English aristocrat who finds his elegant life a bit dull. Tony Curtis is Danny Wilde, a rough-and-tumble Yank who worked his way from New York City's slums to great wealth. Thrown together by a judge who wants a second shot at criminals he's been obliged to let walk, they are THE PERSUADERS!, operating in the name of justice, on the fringes of the law.
Produced by Robert S. Baker (The Saint) and with scripts from Terry Nation (Doctor Who, MacGyver) and Brian Clemens (The Avengers), THE PERSUADERS! is classic Brit-TV. This complete collection features all 23 original episodes of the stylish '70s series.
DVD Features: Commentary with Roger Moore, Producer Robert S. Baker and Executive in charge of Production Johnny Goodman; Roger Moore and Tony Curtis Biographies; Photo Gallery; and more.
The Persuaders!: The Complete Series Reviews:
Everthing I remembered and moore 
2009-09-15 - I loved this series when I was young, and aftre watching it again brought many good memories.You will Love it if you were there then.
You'll be Persuaded
2009-07-19 - The Persuaders! was a 70's nugget produced in England. The best part of this series was the interplay between it's two stars Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. They seem to be having a great time trying to constantly out-do each other while trying to solve cases the legal authorities originally couldn't. Moore plays Lord Bret Sinclair,born and bred a British aristocrat, while Curtis plays Danny Wilde,a self-made millionaire from the slums of Brooklyn. Exotic locales and women are part of the fun in this tongue-in cheek adventure series. The cultural differences between the two are never more apparent than when they're camping out on Bret's estate in one episode. While Danny sleeps with only a blanket for protection, Bret has a deluxe tent complete with mini-bar and freezer. The only problem I have with the set is it only contains 24 episodes, due to the fact it wasn't poular in the U.S. and production was stopped after just one season. A must for Moore fans to see what he did to bide his time between The Saint and James Bond.
Sentimental Memory
2009-01-24 - The all series with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis I watched, when I was young.Some time ago.
Now I watch one of the movie mowie before I go to sleep.It give me peace of mind and my dreams are nice. Recomended for age over 45.
Very pursuasive indeed
2008-06-22 - The 1971 series "The Persuaders" is nothing short of a television equivalent to a truck load of precious gems. With an, at that time in British television uheard of, huge waddle of cash thrown at the production of this series (around 100K pounds per episode), they had the means to make "The Persuaders" big. And they did. The signature theme music by John Barry and the colourful introduction of the characters that comes with it. The lavishness of the sets and on-location shootings, the signature Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS and the red Dino Ferrari, the scotch.
They managed to create a world, a believable world, in which British peer Lord Brett Sinclair, in the comely shape of Roger Moore, and American diamond-in-the-rough oil millionaire Danny Wilde, played to perfection by Tony Curtis, would solve cases that the courts could not, or would not, handle all while keeping up a busy globetrotting playboy lifestyle with fast cars, fast women, gambling, and plenty of fine cognac. It is a safe and entertaining world to get immersed into with proper fistfights, loads of drink, and beautiful women. Much like James Bond as it were.
But the biggest boon, by far, is the humour, much of the which derives from the observations of differences between the British and the Americans as seen in the relationship between, as well as the laddish and playful wit of, the two main protagonists.
"The Persuaders" may seem old and tired and a bit ridiculous to modern eyes, like indeed any old TV series might, but I dont think it is. The stories are well written, well acted, and well directed. It is an innocent and interesting world in which Sinclair and Wilde work their magic, and I think, a world we all would like to be in (in some way or other).
It's a shame that Sir Lew Grade, co-creator of the series, was so keen on breaking into the American market (where the series fared badly), that he cancelled the series after only one season although it was doing very well in the rest of the world. Although I guess that only makes it that much more precious, doesn't it?
In a word: definitely one for the lads (lads here meaning men and women). Highest possible recommendation.
UK Set
2008-06-02 - The full set available in the UK and on amazon.co.uk was also released in 2006, but it is not this A&E basic compilation. It has two extra DVDs, including a great "The Persuaders Revisited" documentary, that visits Tony Curtis in 2006 in his present home in Las Vegas and Sir Roger Moore in his home in Monte Carlo. Between the two of them, I think Moore has got the better idea for a residence... :-))
Anyhow, at about the same price as this U.S. version is, plus having the PAL system's better colors and extra line resolution, getting the series from the UK site is a better option. Make sure that the DVD player is PAL capable (most of them are) and that it is region-free. Otherwise, you can just use a separate DVD player that you will always use for Region 2 (PAL) DVDs, this should not be a big issue.
