Cast

Tony Curtis
DANNY WILDE

Roger Moore
LORD BRETT SINCLAIR

Laurence Naismith
JUDGE FULTON

Larry Storch
ANGIE

Lionel Murton
BEN

Kirsten Lindholm
MARISSA

John Alderson
KYLE SANDOR

Anna Brett
BANK SECRETARY

Rose Alba
MADAME LA GATA

Uncredited cast

Olivia Mela
GIRL ON MOPED / GIRL IN BIKINI

Alan Chuntz
SANDOR'S BODYGUARD

Paddy Ryan
CINEMA PROJECTIONIST

ANGIE... ANGIE

Screenplay by MILTON S. GELMAN
Directed by VAL GUEST

"...you're going to help me stop a game called 'How to kill a friend' "

UK TRANSMISSION DATES:
Thursday 18th November 1971 - GRANADA and ANGLIA - 8pm
Friday 19th November 1971 - ATV Midlands, HTV, LONDON, SOUTHERN and YORKSHIRE - 7.30pm

The French Riviera is the setting for American gangster drama when Danny meets up with a friend from 'way back and learns, too late, that the gaiety of a film festival is a mask for murder.

Kyle Sandor (JOHN ALDERSON) has come to the Cannes Film Festival to enjoy himself. Somebody else has come to kill him... but who? This is what Judge Fulton (LAURENCE NAISMITH) wants Danny Wilde (TONY CURTIS) and Brett Sinclair (ROGER MOORE) to find out.

Sandor, ex-boss of a big union in the United States, intends to testify at a Congressional Investigation into criminals taking over the unions. The hoods intend to see he never makes the stand.

Only Brett's speed saves Sandor from a bullet fired through the French windows at the Casino where Sandor is playing the tables with his right-hand man, Ben (LIONEL MURTON) and two guards. Brett chases the gunman into the grounds, but he gets away.

But Brett has a lead - the girl, Marissa (KIRSTEN LINDHOLM), who had caught his eye as she opened the window for the mystery gunman and set up the shot for him.

When he sees her again, she is with Angie (LARRY STORCH).

Angie is Danny's boyhood pal from the slums of New York. He has turned up in Cannes, but is evasive about what he is doing there. Danny refuses to believe a suggestion that Angie could be the hit man for the crooks, and sets out to prove to Brett that he is making a mistake.

Angie is in trouble. He is warned that he must not miss the union boss next time, and it is Ben, Sandor's trusted lieutenant, who is giving him his orders.

That night, Sandor is to attend a special film screening, and he ensures that his old friend Danny will not be there by giving him a drugged drink. And efforts to remove Brett from the scene are made by his being sent off on a wild goose chase and attacked. Brett escapes, however, and races to the cinema in time to save Kyle Sandor for a second time.

In the fight that follows, Angie escapes but returns to his hotel to bid good-bye to his old pal, the half-conscious Danny. And Danny, now knowing the truth, strains to clear his drugged senses and gives chase, following Angie to a remote mountain spot where, just like the games they played as kids, they stalk each other. This time, their guns are real.

But it's more than Danny can bring himself to do, when the chance presents itself for him to kill Angie. Then from the shadows a new voice breaks the night and Danny pivots to see Ben, machine pistol at his hip and aimed in their direction. He is about to fire when a rock, thrown from behind, hits his hand. It's Brett, who has forced Marissa to tell him where Angie has gone.

The advantage, though, still lies with Ben - until Danny takes a gamble on Brett's lucky number at roulette.

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THE PERSUADERS!

DEVISED AND PRODUCED BY ROBERT S. BAKER

"The Persuaders!" theme by JOHN BARRY
Music composed and conducted by KEN THORNE
Musical Supervision by DON KIRSHNER

In charge of Production - JOHNNY GOODMAN
Story Consultant & Associate Producer - TERRY NATION
Co Story Consultant - MILTON S. GELMAN

Director of Photography - TONY SPRATLING
Production Manager - MALCOLM CHRISTOPHER
Art Director - CHARLES BISHOP
Editor - BERT RULE, G.B.F.E.
Made on location and at Pinewood Studios, London, England.

Lord Sinclair's clothes designed by Roger Moore.

Assistant Director - PETER PRICE
Location Manager - ARNOLD ROSS
Camera Operator - JIMMY DEVIS
Set Dresser - KEN TAIT
Continuity - DORIS MARTIN
Production Secretary - ANN M. PATERSON

Sound Recordist - CLAUDE HITCHCOCK
Dubbing Editor - JIM SIBLEY G.B.F.E.
Dubbing Mixer - TED KARNON
Music Editor - DEVERIL GOODMAN
Make-Up - GERRY FLETCHER
Hairdressing - MIKE JONES
Wardrobe Supervisor - JOHNNY BRIGGS

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