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Director:
Writers:
Leslie Charteris (story)
Allan MacKinnon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 April 1954 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
It's LONDON vs. THE SAINT! (Original USA print ad for "The Saint's Girl Friday") more
Plot:
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. | add synopsis
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Predicts nicely the Saint the Roger Moore series would show more (2 total)

Cast

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Louis Hayward ... Simon Templar
Naomi Chance ... Carol Denby
Sydney Tafler ... Max Lennar
Charles Victor ... Chief Insp. Claud Teal
Jane Carr ... Kate Finch
Harold Lang ... Jarvis
William Russell ... Keith Merton (as Russell Enoch)
Diana Dors ... The Blonde in Lennar's Apartment
Fred Johnson ... Irish Cassidy
Thomas Gallagher ... Hoppy, his valet
Russell Napier ... Col. Stafford
Sam Kydd ... Barkley (Joe Podd)
John Wynn
George Margo
Ian Fleming
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Saint's Girl Friday (USA)
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Runtime:
73 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The ninth of nine classic RKO movies featuring Simon Templar, The Saint. Louis Hayward returns in the role after starring in the first Saint movie. more
Movie Connections:
Follows The Saint's Vacation (1941) more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Predicts nicely the Saint the Roger Moore series would show, 15 December 1998
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Author: adam jezard

Louis Hayward is many people's preference as the Saint over George Sanders, precisely because he played him as a hard, cold hit-man in 1938's The Saint in New York. While this is, undeniably, a trait in Charteris's creation, it is not the most likeable one and it is intriguing to see too Hayward's performance has mellowed with age. The script here is a little trite, but on the whole this is a more than passable little preamble that predicts nicely the Saint the Roger Moore series would show, with the Saint a vaguely retired disreputable character who finds it hard to stay on the right side of the law. There is much humour, and a little padding, but the film is worth a watch for Saint fanatics. For Hammer Film fans (the film was shot for RKO by the British studio) a nice touch is the shot of a floor plan of a country house that is about to be burgled; the names of all the guests belong to Hammer regular cast and crew members, including cult director Terence Fisher.

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