The Saint in London (1939)

Directed by

John Paddy Carstairs

Genre

action film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

Simon Templar, a gentleman adventurer known as the Saint, gets involved in a case in London. He uses his cleverness and charm to outwit criminals and solve the mystery.

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What happens

The Saint in London is a 1939 British crime film, the third of eight films in RKO's film series featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". It stars George Sanders as Templar and was produced by William Sistrom. John Paddy Carstairs directed. Lynn Root and Frank Fenton wrote the screenplay based on Leslie Charteris' short story "The Million Pound Day", which was published in the 1932 collection The Holy Terror, published in the United States as The Saint vs. Scotland Yard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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