A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Sydney Tafler
- Max Lennar
- (as Sidney Tafler)
William Russell
- Keith Merton
- (as Russell Enoch)
Robert Arden
- NYPD Official
- (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Erik Chitty
- Older gang member
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe ninth of nine classic RKO movies featuring Simon Templar, The Saint. Louis Hayward returns in the rôle after starring in the first Saint movie, The Saint in New York (1938)
- GoofsThe Saint gets into a taxi with a registration number that appears to be MGM 694, but three seconds later gets out of taxi LYL 576, a very clearly seen registration number.
- Quotes
Chief Insp. Claud Eustace Teal: The Saint doesn't break the law, he just bends it.
- ConnectionsFollows The Saint in New York (1938)
- SoundtracksCuyaba
(uncredited)
Music by Da Paula Bana (pseudonym of Winifred Palmer)
Paxton Music Ltd
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Another Go-Around For Louis Hayward
The movie series based on Leslie Chateris' long-running collection of novels about "the Robin Hood of Crime" ends where it began, with Louis Hayward taking on the role of Simon Templar. When a girl friend dies after sending him a telegram asking him for help, the police thinks it was an accident. Hayward soon discovers a ring of crooks running a crooked gambling joint. The problem lies in finding out who the mysterious boss is and wrapping them up in a neat bow before Chief Inspector Charles Victor can arrest him for the corpse that came tumbling out of Hayward's refrigerator.
It's a handsome mix of light-hearted bravado, lucky turns and murderous incidents, far removed from the RKO series of the early 1940s. It's a solid light-hearted mystery from Hammer Films, despite the fact that Hayward is not the young man he had been a decade and a half earlier. Naomi Chance is the busty young woman whom he reforms, although Diana Dors has a small role in which, after complaining that she has no gun to use on Hayward, is told to "Use what she's got" and she most certainly does.
Still, there wasn't enough interest to keep the series going. It would be another decade before it was successfully revived on the small screen, with a perfectly cast Roger Moore.
It's a handsome mix of light-hearted bravado, lucky turns and murderous incidents, far removed from the RKO series of the early 1940s. It's a solid light-hearted mystery from Hammer Films, despite the fact that Hayward is not the young man he had been a decade and a half earlier. Naomi Chance is the busty young woman whom he reforms, although Diana Dors has a small role in which, after complaining that she has no gun to use on Hayward, is told to "Use what she's got" and she most certainly does.
Still, there wasn't enough interest to keep the series going. It would be another decade before it was successfully revived on the small screen, with a perfectly cast Roger Moore.
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- boblipton
- Apr 2, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Saint's Girl Friday (1953) officially released in India in English?
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