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The Saint * (1997, Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Alun Armstrong) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 3229

‘Never reveal your name. Never turn your back. Never surrender your heart.’ Val Kilmer is totally miscast as Simon Templar in director Phillip Noyce‘s misbegotten 1997 cinema attempt to revive The Saint. It co-stars Elisabeth […]

Jan, 04

The Saint’s Return [The Saint’s Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3228

‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him up FOR THE KILL!!’ Director Seymour Friedman’s 1953 crime mystery thriller for Hammer Films (released in the US as The Saint’s Girl Friday) is a very watchable British stab at reviving […]

Jan, 04

The Saint Meets the Tiger *** (1943, Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Wylie Watson, Clifford Evans) – Classic Movie Review 3227

Following his debut in 1941’s The Saint’s Vacation, the handsome, debonair, suave and witty Hugh Sinclair (1903 – 1962) stars again as Leslie Charteris’s modern-day Robin Hood sleuth character Simon Templar in director Paul Stein’s […]

Jan, 04

The Saint’s Vacation *** (1941, Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Cecil Parker, Arthur Macrae, Gordon McLeod, Leueen MacGrath, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3226

Hugh Sinclair takes over the halo from George Sanders as Simon Templar in the seventh of the RKO Pictures’ The Saint series, co-written by original author Leslie Charteris and produced and filmed in the UK. […]

Jan, 04

The Saint in Palm Springs *** (1941, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Linda Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 3225

For the sixth crime mystery thriller adventure in RKO Pictures’ the Saint series, George Sanders makes his fifth and final appearance as the modern-day Robin Hood-inspired anti-hero Simon Templar. This time The Saint is sent […]

Jan, 03

The Saint Takes Over *** (1940, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway) – Classic Movie Review 3224

Director Jack Hively’s twisty and noirish 1940 crime mystery thriller The Saint Takes Over is the fifth in the RKO Saint series, the fourth for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, and the […]

Jan, 03

The Saint’s Double Trouble *** (1940, George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride, John F Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 3223

Director Jack Hively’s 1940 crime thriller The Saint’s Double Trouble is the fourth episode of the RKO Pictures The Saint series, and the third for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, all entirely […]

Jan, 03

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