A screen adaptation of the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's dance production. Set in London 1897 this is the story of a stranger who is after a girl called Mina...
Massive hulking alien space-crafts fill the sky, hovering over Earth as their killing machines attack the ground with unprecedented force. Terror reigns and panic ensues amongst the human race, as the monsters invade and destroy anything in their path. Upon tactically annihilating the entire nuclear arsenal, the world is left defenceless and with a bleak choice: either escape to a new planet, or stay behind to face what could be the end of the humankind as we know it. Resigning themselves to abandoning Earth, most turn their hope to a new planet in order to survive. Meanwhile, the president of the United States turns to a rogue army soldier to fight back, uncover the truth and defeat the seemingly invincible enemy, before the human race is obliterated.
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
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