The Saint's Vacation (1941)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- 'Murder and a mighty nation's security hinges on the safety of this innocent looking strong box! But what does the "Saint" know?'
Taking on the role of Simon Templar this time around was Hugh Sinclair (the first of two big screen performances as The Saint in this film and in The Saint Meets the Tiger a couple years later, eventually Sinclair would pass the reins to Louis Hayward (the first actor to take on the coveted role back in 1938 with The Saint in New York. Actress Sally Gray reprises her role here as Mary Langdon a character she played once before in The Saint in London (1939) starring then alongside actor George Sanders who played Simon Templar in five previous films.
Trivia - American company RKO decided to form a British Company to utilize funds frozen by the British government because of the "Films Act," which limited money taken out of the country to 50% of revenues earned from American films distributed in Great Britain. The Saint's Vacation was the first film made using those frozen funds and the seventh of nine classic RKO movies featuring Simon Templar, The Saint.
Theses old films 🍿 are always brilliant ❤love them 😂
I love these older movies.
I liked this. Most of the actors who’ve played the Saint have tended towards smugness. Sinclair was refreshingly blunt and cut-glass. Also, Sally Gray was a sweetheart who did a few films, had a breakdown and turned down Hollywood in order to raise her children. Sensible girl.
Didn’t like Sinclairs performance too arrogant
Sally Gray was married to a Baron for 50 years and had no children.
@@marcy6723 oh, must have imagined the kids. My bad …. ok, turned down Hollywood to marry into the aristocracy and spend 50 years gardening. Sensible girl.
Only in the Saint 😂
Very entertaining movie! Always a joy to see a Simon Templar movie! The Saint is so good!
I love all the old Saint films. This is the first time I've ever seen this one! Excellent fun. Thanks for sharing this with all of us who love the old films.
This was a most enjoyable movie. Good plot. interesting characters and very well mannered and well dressed heroes, heroines and villains. Good "atmosphere."
Thanks for the movie. Sally Gray is a beauty.😊
She reminds me of Marjorie Reynolds, who played Bobbie Logan in the "Mr. Wong" series, but not as annoying.
“Apparently some people can resist his fatal charm…” Can hardly wait to see how this one plays out!
This turned out to be a pretty darned good movie! And it's actually a British production financed by an American company. I could wish Hugh Sinclair had just a bit more "dash," but he was still good.
Great film
Over the years of the many and various filmed adventures of Simon Templar, the character of the debonair and charming Templar has gone through quite a transition, metamorphosing into one of the smoothest charmers of all time, Roger Moore. It's hard to imagine George Sanders playing Templar in 5 "Saint" films. Hugh Sinclair is one of the coolest, unromantic of all the portrayals of the character, Simon Templar that I have seen.
In the early books, ST was a cold-blooded killer. That was what made the character so compelling. Later productions have focused on the aging, softer, character because only that was acceptable to producers and to modern sentiments.
Not my Simon Templar! The Templar of the books often carried out extrajudicial executions of the villains. That has never been palatable to any director or producer, but it was what made the Charteris stories so unique.
Not my favorite actor who played 'The Saint'. But I would much rather watch any of these old films rather than the new movies.
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@26:10 Of course it had to be the castle with the danged remote operated impassable barrier at the end of the driveway! Foiled again!
Entertaining in a well thought out early scandinavian plains n hills o europe medium fast thrill gangster film for many easy watches
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Best sound detector 😂
Very good.
I can't get used to a mustachioed Saint 😂😂😂
Great little story.
Clean movie must watch❤
I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #3110.🙄
Sally Grey looks like a really good root!
I have been watching the Saint series with Roger Moore. The persona of the Saint is all class, love it. Question I have here is England was at war, Paris fell June 14, 1940, so where did Simon Templer go on holiday? There are two other series from similar time frames that I find interesting, Boston Blackie and Elory Queen.
Switzerland
During the war they made films that were set before the war. Like Ghost Train also made in 1941. (Based on the play written by Arnold Ridley who went on to play Godfrey in Dad's Army. Part was filmed at night on a railway station which was lit up like it was still peacetime. However they had someone ready to kill the lights if an air raid was imminent.
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So the villian didn't conclude that Mr Sqeakyvoice didn't have the box.
Appalling ending.
All very posh
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WHO was this rich albeit infamous person??
Yes.
Ahh, Yawnnn.
Thank you for posting! I'm always happy to find a black and white I haven't seen yet. After I watch one I look up the actors and their biographies are usually very interesting. Double enjoyment and entertainment. 🎥🎥🎥
Me too!
Yes, I end up going on all kind of threads. Like you said soooo interesting. 😊
So glad you enjoyed it, thank you for saying so
Good one. Has all the right ingredients. Love The Saint. Thanks fo sharing.
Sally Gray was in The Saint in London but not the same character. She played Penny Parker in that movie.
I love the super old stuff😊. The stuff now (2024) is so YUK!!😑
The days when a female cub reporter could afford to dress like a fashion model and jet all around the world chasing a story.
Not quite "the jet age" back then.
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It's TV... It's fiction....😮
@@heartsrk It's not TV, it's a movie. Secondly, I'm not serious, I'm joking.
😂 it's not a movie, it's a motion picture.
Always enjoy the stories and the various actors playing the Saint.Thanks😊
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My all-time favorite Saint will always be Louis Hayward. There was something about the way he d play a cheeky but dangerous
Fellow who was out to right the wrongs. I've never seen this film before and was quite entertaining. Thank you for posting this.
Near the end, where Templar is listing all of Rudolph's crimes - no mention of the 2 murdered Postal train workers.
Mr. Cecil Parker, who played Rudolph played many roles. I never knew his name but his voice was unmistakable. He played criminal s, comedy
I laughed alot at his role in A navy lurk, always wondered if the series Mash and in particular the role MacLean Stevenson played was a copy of the part of the colonel.
Yes, his voice was rather Sidney Greenstreet-esque.
First time seeing this!! wow what a good and funny movie. Loved the cast and whole plot! Thanks a mil!!!!!!! Is this a series?
Cecil Parker, who played one of the villains, had to go through life without using his German birth-name, Schwabe.
I'm sure as a German that he didn't need a good cry about it.
Good movie!
I like all the Saint and the Falcon movies. Had taped most of them from the TV and later erased them.
I love this movie! Thank you so very much! ❤️
how many bullets do those guns shoot/ Simon carries bullets in his pocket?
Good fun 😊 At 6:33 i spy Patricia Laffan behind the reception desk of the Hotel Regina in an Alpine Principality. OR, since i find no mention elsewhere i could be wrong, it has been known.
52:43 Talking real charges. Intentional smoke inhalation is no joke.
Thank you thank you thank you wonderful film
interesting old movies how the women are usually young and beautiful and the men starts are old enough to be their fathers. actually still some of that today
And they used capital letters.
Much better than I expected. Good movie!
The Saint’s theme (composed by Charteris himself) sounds a little like the Big Band standard “Velvet Moon”.
Au contrite ! It somewhat; shows how IMPORTANT investigative reporters were THEN as TODAY!!
Bs they cover it up today stop living in lala land
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I really enjoy these moving pictures
I enjoyed the film, and I fell in love with Sally Gray. England, February, 2024.
Agreed. Ms. Gray was a bombshell. Try to catch her in another Brit flick, "They Made Me a Criminal," with Trevor Howard, one of my fav vids.
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Monte was such a worm.
Sweet!❤
Loved the television series "The Saint" 😇
With that puff-ball Roger Moore? The Saint of the books was a killer. Producers have always been too scared to show that.
TWO beautiful ladies to take lunch, Templer must have good money; nobody ever think of me?
I would love to get a copy of the sheet music for the theme to The Saint and have an orchestra play it in a slow tempo rather than what he would hear on tv in the 1960's or later with Ian Oglivy.
It's quite pretty.
I didn't know that so many actors played The Saint!
Great movie, and a lot of fun!
Notice in those days they drove on the left in Europe?
No, they did not. Germany mandated driving on the right in 1926, as Spain did in 1924 and Italy progressively from 1923. France had made it official in 1909. .The Austro-Hungarian empire and its successor states continued to drive on the left for some years beyond the major western European countries but all had made the change by the date this film was made
Sweden was an outlier and changed to driving on the right in 1967
good movie!
I think Basil Rathborn need a great Simon Templer back in the day.
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A jolly little English thriller of the day, long ago. I think Leslie Charteris co-authored the screenplay. He created "The Saint." Roger Moore was the most famous Saint, but there have been others.
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Excellent movie 🙂🙂🙂
I am truly blown away because I always assumed Roger Moore was the original Saint...
Seeing the little "Saint" animation with the famous theme at the beginning was a complete wow moment for me...
Quite enjoyable thanks 👍 👍
Yeah me too I’ve only discovered these today there’s a whole bunch with a couple of different actors although the same names as the Roger Moore saint-hoppy, Lestrade, fernach in the United States, claude Eustis teal of Scotland Yard plus the non-de- plumes such Sebastian tombs etc-and still all of those also (which I suppose makes sense ) directed or taken from Leslie Charteris the original authors stories
Who wrote the screenplay for this terrible movie? A 10-year-old?
Can I have George Sanders please. My father swore he was the original.
I like Vincent Price myself, but he never made it to the screen. I will gladly give this a try
Louis Haywood got their first
It is all good
@@betsya7054 Price is fun in the role, but I prefer Simon Templar to be a little more English. Sanders is the Saint of the books for my money.
@@VictoriaAlfredSmythe it sure is! I also like many versions of Sherlock Holmes although i do have a favorite lol
I love the old Saint films & this was especially good
Fun and fluff. TY!
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Wow !....the original ST....
Simon’s male associate (snibbling coward, & utter distraction; mis-cast) .
Not even worthy ‘comic relief’ .
That ending was a bit of an Anticlimax.
Too bad you thought so, I thought it was great.
@@rickmiller1429 I enjoyed the movie as a whole. It was the ending that I found disappointing. .. 😉