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Vendetta for the Saint: Part 1

  • Episode aired Jan 5, 1969
  • 1h 34m
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6.4/10
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Aimi MacDonald in The Saint (1962)
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Templar is having a drink at a bar in Naples when he witnesses a mêlée between two of the customers. It appears that one of them has mistaken the other for an old colleague. Templar's suspic... Read allTemplar is having a drink at a bar in Naples when he witnesses a mêlée between two of the customers. It appears that one of them has mistaken the other for an old colleague. Templar's suspicions are raised the next morning when he reads in the newspapers that one of the men has b... Read allTemplar is having a drink at a bar in Naples when he witnesses a mêlée between two of the customers. It appears that one of them has mistaken the other for an old colleague. Templar's suspicions are raised the next morning when he reads in the newspapers that one of the men has been murdered. He begins to investigate only to find himself thrown into the world of the S... Read all
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    • Jim O'Connolly
    • Leslie Charteris(by)
    • Harry W. Junkin(screenplay)
    • John Kruse(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Roger Moore
    • Ian Hendry
    • Rosemary Dexter
    • Jim O'Connolly
    • Leslie Charteris(by)
    • Harry W. Junkin(screenplay)
    • John Kruse(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Roger Moore
    • Ian Hendry
    • Rosemary Dexter
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    • 6User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Roger Moore in The Saint (1962)
    Roger Moore in The Saint (1962)
    Roger Moore and Guy Deghy in The Saint (1962)
    Ian Hendry in The Saint (1962)

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    Roger Moore
    Roger Moore
    • Simon Templar
    Ian Hendry
    Ian Hendry
    • Alessandro Destamio
    Rosemary Dexter
    Rosemary Dexter
    • Gina Destamio
    Aimi MacDonald
    • Lily
    George Pastell
    George Pastell
    • Marco Ponti
    Marie Burke
    Marie Burke
    • Donna Maria
    Fulton Mackay
    Fulton Mackay
    • James Euston
    Peter Kristof
    • Giorgio
    Peter Madden
    Peter Madden
    • Lo Zio
    Guy Deghy
    Guy Deghy
    • Maresciallo
    Eileen Way
    • The Maid
    Edward Evans
    Edward Evans
    • The Bank Manager
    Malya Nappi
    • The Bank Clerk
    Charles Houston
    Charles Houston
    • Hotel Reception Clerk
    Salmaan Peerzada
    Salmaan Peerzada
    • Airline Clerk
    • (as Salmaan Peer)
    Derek Sydney
    Derek Sydney
    • Maitre 'D'
    Gábor Baraker
    • Barman
    • (as Gabor Baraker)
    Agath Angelos
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      • Jim O'Connolly
      • Leslie Charteris(by) (original story)
      • Harry W. Junkin(screenplay)
      • John Kruse(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The helicopter seen (F-BOSD) is a SUD Aviation SA3180 Alouette II c/n 1966. This model is differentiated from the Alouette III by its open frame tail boom.
    • Goofs
      The newspaper article of the assassination seen at about 6:30 has the picture and headline pasted on over a different article.
    • Connections
      Edited into Vendetta for the Saint (1969)
    • Soundtracks
      Out to Get You
      by Chris Andrews

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    7/10
    Enjoyable long Saint episode
    The Saint has been one of my favourite fiction characters right since my early teens when I first discovered the books and started collecting them. Vendetta was one of the last I bought before I lost patience with the samey and all too often rather uninspired latest books. Vendetta was definitely superior to any that had appeared for a good many years.

    This 2-part TV adaptation is one of the best TV episodes and it was good to see it again recently. Of the various actor incarnations of the Saint, Roger Moore is by a long way the best I've seen - not perfect but that is mainly because of the generally anodyne TV scripts which ignored the darker side of the Saint's original ethos and ruthless lawlessness and made him into a thoroughly nice guy who went around helping people rather than seeking out adventure. Admittedly the later books were in themselves rather anodyne, notably those that followed the Saint's departure for ever from England to take up residence (more or less) in the USA at the start of WW2 - something for which I never forgave the writer since I felt this great English hero should have been here helping to save England, not pootling around in the US chasing the odd Nazi at the behest of the CIA or FBI or whoever it was employed him at that period.

    I've no doubt incidentally that Moore could have played the original, sharper and more dynamic (also more moralising!) early Saint, given the opportunity but none of the Saint episodes I've seen, which is most of them, ever came near the standard of the early books.

    I would like to see a Saint movie based on those early Saint books - there are some splendid early adventures. Vendetta harked back somewhat to those early days in that it was much better than any other Saint book since the pre-WW2 stories. I'd also mention that I've never seen any screen version of a Saint story that came close to the Charteris original and I have to ignore the Val Kilmer effort which was totally bizarre and nothing remotely like Charteris's Saint - it beats me how the director could get it so completely and mind-bendingly wrong when the books are there for the checking. Charteris was a master story teller.

    In Vendetta, the Saint is in Sicily and gets involved with the inevitable pretty girl in trouble from a family both linked with and in difficulties with the Mafia, and you can guess at some of the things that would happen to him - I won't give the plot away any further. On the whole the filming is fine although there is an excessively extended chase sequence - which gives you plenty of scenery to look at but my impression was this was filling time to ensure the story would fill two TV periods adequately. Other than this, the pacing is fine and Moore as always give a sterling performance - entertaining, humorous as well as tough and when necessary ruthless.

    (No matter what movie Moore may be in and some haven't been brilliant, I've always found his own performance will be excellent, a supremely professional actor.)
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    • Apr 21, 2007

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    • Release date
      • January 5, 1969 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
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    • Filming locations
      • Isle of Capri, Naples, Campania, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Bamore
      • Incorporated Television Company (ITC)
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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
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