The Saint's Vacation (1941)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Leslie Fenton

Writers:

Leslie Charteris (novel)
Leslie Charteris (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

9 May 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box. |

Plot Keywords:

Music Box | Vacation | The Saint | Reporter | Foreign Agent

Cast

Hugh Sinclair	...	Simon Templar, aka The Saint
Sally Gray	...	Mary Langdon
Cecil Parker	...	Rudolph Hauser
Arthur Macrae	...	Monty Hayward
Leueen MacGrath	...	Valerie (as Leueen Macgrath)
Gordon McLeod	...	Inspector Teal
John Warwick	...	Gregory
Manning Whiley	...	Marko
Felix Aylmer	...	Charles Leighton
Ivor Barnard	...	Emil

Runtime:

61 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

D&P Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

RKO Radio British Productions

Trivia:

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. This was the first film made using those frozen funds.

Quotes:

Monty Hayward: I refuse to be involved in this any further!
Mary Langdon: Is he really going?
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Yes, as far as the bar.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)

The Saint goes over some old territory

Hugh Sinclair is The Saint, Simon Templar, in "The Saint's Vacation," a 1941 film also starring Sally Gray, Cecil Parker and Arthur Macrae. Besides Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy on television, the Saint has been played by Sinclair, Louis Hayward and George Sanders (that I've seen). I liked Hayward's smoothness, Sanders' turn of a phrase, and I like Sinclair's cool, casual, take it as it comes attitude. He doesn't have the dry wit of Sanders' Simon, but like Saints before him, nothing fazes him either. He also doesn't whistle the familiar "Saint" tune, which I kind of missed.

Now the Saint is veddy veddy British as the productions were moved over to the UK, and Simon is working with a friend (Arthur Macrae) who's afraid of his shadow. This time the plot concerns a highly sought after music box - where have we heard that before? And, as usual, people will kill to get their hands on it.

Sally Gray is pretty and energetic as a reporter who accompanies Simon as she tries to get a good story. Evidently she doesn't realize that if you like Sherlock Holmes and The Lady Vanishes, this variation on a theme is old stuff. Very pleasant film.