VIDEO SATURDAY HAT SQUAD - TONY CURTIS

There'll be plenty of other sites which will have video tributes to the film work of Tony Curtis, highlighting 'Some Like It Hot', 'The Defiant Ones', 'Spartacus', and my favorite, 'The Great Race'. But of course, that's the "Cineverse" and here we deal with the TV Universe of Toobworld....

As I mentioned in my Hat Squad tribute to the actor, his series from the early 70's, 'The Persuaders', was one of my favorites and still is today. Thanks to YouTube, here's a sampling of clips that give you a feel for the show (which was really nothing more than an excuse for Curtis and Roger Moore to romp across Europe with beautiful girls in an international TV production).

First up, how the fates of their two characters were manipulated into becoming entangled with each other. (And that great title sequence & music is featured as well):











Here's Curtis & Moore "camping" it up on the series. Like I said, the show was just an excuse for them to have fun.....





And now for something completely different - this video is being promoted as an example of video slash involving their characters of Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair. It's so very very wrong, but also very very funny. I'm sure Mr. Curtis would have found it hilarious!





Here's the big climactic scene for Fernand Mondego, one of the villains in the classic "Count of Monte Cristo". As Mondego, Curtis showed he still had that flair with a sword which he exhibited a decade earlier in the movie "The Great Race". (And he was still able to fill out the white tights as well.)





I wish I could have found some decent clips from 'Vega$' and 'McCoy' to also represent his TV work, but these should work nicely.

But no video tribute could be complete without Tony Curtis' venture into the Tooniverse, circa 1,000,050 B.C.......





Speaking of B.C........
BCnU!