The Persuaders - Vol. 2 - Five Miles To Midnight / Gold Nap / Take Seven / Greensleeves

Image Not Available Director: David Greene, Roy Ward Baker, Sidney Hayers, Val Guest Dvd Release: 12th February, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Persuaders was a British television series, which first aired in 1970 & 1971. It starred Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair & Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde, both millionaire international playboys, but from very different backgrounds. The somewhat inconsistent premise of the series was that the aristocratic Sinclair was forced to team up with rough diamond American Wilde to fight crime on behalf of a judge, played by Laurence Naismith, or face jail. Twenty-four episodes were made by Lew Grade s ITC company, each 50 minutes long. It featured theme music by John Barry. Some television critics have stated it is one of the finest television series ever made anywhere. In some ways the Sinclair character was inspired by Roger Moores earlier work with The Saint & was first tested in an episode of that series, ‘The Ex-King of Diamonds’. These roles were similar to the James Bond role Moore played for seven Bond films in the ’70s & early ’80s.

Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song, basically a ground of the form called a romanesca ; the widely-believed legend is that it was composed by King Henry VIII. It likely circulated in manuscript, as most social music did, long before it was printed. A tune by this name was registered at the London Stationers Company in 1580 as A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves. No copy of that printing is known. It appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights as A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves. Whether this suggests that an old tune of Greensleeves was in circulation, or which one our familiar tune is, remain mooted. All of these allusions suggest that the song was well known at that time. Greensleeves has inspired a number of derivative works. The British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a Falstaff opera, Sir John in Love, from which Ralph Greaves adapted a Fantasia on Greensleeves. Its slow tempo has inspired modern languishing renditions. Posters Of Greensleeves

David Greene is a National Football League quarterback with the Seattle Seahawks. At South Gwinett High School in Snellville, Georgia, David Greene was a two-sport standout as a quarterback in football & as a right fielder in baseball. As a senior, he completed 134 passes out of 227 pass attempts for 2,102 yards & 19 touchdowns, earning USA Today All-USA honorable mention, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Super 11 honors, Super Southern 100 honors, Top 75 in Georgia honors,Class AAAA All-State honors, Georgia Sports Writers Association AAAA All-State, Gwinnett County co-Offensive Player of the Year, Atlanta touchdown club quarterback of the year, Gwinnett touchdown club All-Star quarterback & Atlanta Club Quarterback of the Year. He also played in the Georgia-Florida All-Star game & led his team to the playoffs as a junior & as a senior. Greene played quarterback at the University of Georgia in college. He began his career as a redshirt freshman in 2001, being named the starter before the season. His most notable freshman game occurred at Tennessee, known as the hobnail boot game. Posters Of Blondie

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Val Guest is a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for the Hammer company in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied & highly active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s. Guests initial career was as an actor, appearing in various productions in London theatres. He also appeared in a few early sound film roles, before he gave up an acting career & moved into writing. He was for a time in the early 1930s the London correspondent for the Hollywood Reporter trade paper, before he began working on film screenplays for Gainsborough Pictures, his first being No Monkey Business in 1935. He wrote screenplays for the rest of the decade, as well as some film scores, before in the early 1940s becoming a director, with his debut feature in this role being Miss London Ltd in 1943. The Quatermass Xperiment & Quatermass 2. He also directed the cult science-fiction films The Abominable Snowman & The Day the Earth Caught Fire & was one of several directors to work on the unofficial James Bond film Casino Royale. Posters Of Casino Royale

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