"The Persuaders!" Angie... Angie (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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Kirsten Lindholm, pretty model, luscious hair, but mute?
RavenGlamDVDCollector28 July 2016
This episode shows that it can be a bad idea to cast a model as an actress. Apparently, that is the case with Kirsten Lindholm. I've since researched her here on IMDb, and she has numerous other credits, not many, but enough to show that she must be able to speak English if she was cast in all those other appearances, yet here she acts exactly like she is either unable to speak in front of a camera or unable to speak English (which is the most likely, given that Olivia Mela also appears herein speaking one line of French) but the result really is kinda weird, making her character kinda lame despite that shampoo commercial hairstyle. A great pity. Well, if I was a director back then, I'd have wanted her in my movie as well, I am not faulting their choice, indeed not, for she is very pretty. But her acting ability? Ooh weeee... She just stands there, suppressing giggles, I can see, she looks like she is going to burst out laughing immediately afterwards. Ma cherie, this be laid down for posterity, parlez vous? Zee little French chickie, she shoulda been taken firmer in hand, non?

Kidding. Funning. I'm not complaining. I'm glad there was a pretty girl in the script. Who wants a Shakespearean actress if you could play around with a blonde French dolly-bird?
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9/10
Never go back
ShadeGrenade30 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The majority of episodes of 'The Persuaders!' were by British writers. An exception was 'Angie...Angie', scripted by America's Milton S.Gelman, also the show's executive story consultant. Lord Brett Sinclair ( Roger Moore ) and Danny Wilde ( Tony Curtis ) are in Cannes for the film festival. At a casino, Brett foils an attempt on the life of union official 'Kyle Sandor' ( John Alderson ). Sandor is due to give evidence in a corruption trial, and someone wants him dead. Danny meets an old friend from his childhood days - 'Angie' ( Larry Storch ). Are the instances related? Judge Fulton ( Lawrence Naismith ) thinks so. He has compiled a dossier linking Angie with high profile murders across the world. Danny is dismissive at first, but gradually comes to realise that Angie is indeed a hit-man...

The only serious episode of the series. Danny's childhood is depicted throughout in monochrome flash-backs. You feel sorry for Brett initially as his friend does not seem to want to know him any more, but then your sympathies switch to Danny as the man he had thought of a life-long friend turns out to be a crook. Angie and Danny shoot it out at the end, but the latter cannot bring himself to kill his pal. Angie announces that this job will definitely be his last, but the man who hired him - 'Ben' ( Lionel Murton ) - has other ideas, leading to a tragic climax.

Nice performance by Larry Storch as 'Angie', an actor probably best known to British viewers for his role in the Western sitcom 'F Troop'. Lionel Murton's other roles include American Intelligence boss 'Coughlin' in the 'Man In A Suitcase' episode 'Man From The Dead'. Beautiful Danish-born Kirsten Lindholm plays 'Marissa Nave'. This, surprisingly, turned out to be her swan-song from films and television.

Frederick E.Smith, author of the '633 Squadron' books, wrote three novelisations of 'The Persuaders' for Pan Books. 'Angie...Angie' appeared in the first volume, alongside 'Overture'.

There are moments of humour. I love the pool room scene in which Brett explains the game of 'rounders' to Danny and Angie, and they respond with: "That's baseball!". His Lordship then claims that the Americans stole the idea for the game from the British!

Directed by Val Guest.
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