Fearless (1978 film) was Chinzano, especially poignant because Joan and Leonard Rossiter would star in a long running series of commercials for that brand of spiced Italian wines. At the time the Film was made, Joan Collins career was experiencing something of a resurgence. In conjunction with " The Stud", the somewhat artistically challenged " Empire of the Ants" and the second adaptation of her sisters Novel "The Bitch", Joan Collins found herself in a second chance at fame, including Cannes Film Premieres and associated promotions for these Films. It is said that having seen her performances in several of these pictures and
Leonard Rossiter demobbed he worked for six years as an insurance clerk in the claims and accident departments of the Commercial Union Insurance Company. From childhood he was an apparently unlikely but in fact enthusiastic and capable sportsman in football, cricket, tennis and later squash. Rossiter joined the Wavertree Community Centre Drama Group and made his first appearance with the Adastra Players in Terence Rattigan's "Flare Path". The local critic said that he "was particularly outstanding, his one fault being a tendency to speak too fast on one or two occasions". He gave up his insurance job to enrol in Preston repertory