The Saint (TV Series) The Organisation Man (1968) User Reviews

Avengers-type episode

[lucyrfisher · 8/10 · 27 May 2022]

Secret army in a huge private country house with grounds, you know the scenario. Roger Moore looks great in a kilt and gets to bark orders. (He did National Service and became a captain.) He was wonderful as the Saint and I love this very English genre of preposterous adventure.

Female interest is supplied by the beautiful Carrie Mortimer, here looking like Cleopatra in a purple trouser suit. But that doesn't sound like her voice - it's higher and more girly. In England we call it acting? Or did her real voice not sound "dolly bird" enough?

For the James Bond Fan -- A Fleming-style Adventure

[reprtr · 15 December 2014]

The Saint may not have been budgeted like Eon Productions' James Bond movies, but toward the later part of the series it seemed like Roger Moore's suave adventurer/hero was immersed in the kind of stories that Ian Fleming could have written as novels or short stories. "The Organisation Man" is one of the best of them, a crackerjack thriller of a story in which Simon Templar infiltrates a private army being organized for some nefarious purpose by a man far less scrupulous than the "notorious" Templar. Without giving away too much, there's vital secret information involved, a very important compromised spy, and lots of characters acting out various levels of paranoia and desperation concerning their respective careers and goals. A James Bond movie (or story) would have had more violence and sex, but there are some interesting sparks, of the cold, admiring kind, visible here in the latter department between Roger Moore and female lead Caroline Mortimer.

Highly enjoyable episode

[coltras35 · 10/10 · 26 August 2021]

Templar infiltrates a secret mercenary force working under cover at an exclusive health farm In this enjoyable, Bondian-style Saint adventure. It's plot moves briskly, has some good twists and turn - Templar is one step ahead of the bad guys, and has an admirer in Roper - played by Tony Britton - who loves his high class tastes.

There's a blink and miss appearance of Sensei Hirokazu Kanazawa, a Teacher of Shotokan Karate, who learned from the founder of the Shotokan style, Gichin Funakoshi, and was one of the last living karateka (practitioners of karate) to have done so. He, like sensei Enoeda, was teaching in England in the mid-60's.

Who's shooting at who?

[theoldman-05943 · 5/10 · 1 May 2021]

What a truly terrible episode. Turning the big shoot out you really can't tell who's shooting at how. The outdoor stand-ins become indescribable and unrecognizable. The torturous interrogation scene makes no sense. "We all agree I'm going to crack (from that one lightbulb in the light fixture)..." And the twist ending is the definition of lame but the Jeep flying through the mud is cool for about one second.

The Saint continues to sink.

Paramilitary Templar

[aramis-112-804880 · 18 December 2023]

Simon Templar goes undercover in a paramilitary organization.

Roger Moore is very good. Norman Bird, an unlikely secret service interrogator, has some amusing bits that reach a welcome, laughable climax.

Of course, paramilitary organizations are the overused boogie-man of every TV and movie writer (I've used them myself), but while I'm sure such groups exist I'm also sure they're ineffective crackpots only useful for legacy media types to exploit to play into far-fetched dystopias to present in "insurrections" that never really happened.

I only mention that to reach the necessary word count. The story plays out well, but it's not much fun. And despite what's said in other reviews, it's easy to tell who's shooting whom at the end. The good guys are in red berets and the bad guys are in cocktail dresses. Templar (in case you don't know) is played by Roger Moore, and he's on the side of the angels.