The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
George Sanders
Simon Templar aka The Saint
Wendy Barrie
Val Travers
Jonathan Hale
Inspector Henry Fernack
Jerome Cowan
Cullis
Barry Fitzgerald
Zipper Dyson
Neil Hamilton
Allan Breck
Robert Elliott
Chief Inspector Webster
A.C. Edington
Writer
Russell Hopton
Harry Donnell
Edward Gargan
Pinky Budd
Robert Strange
Police Commisioner
Gilbert Emery
Martin Eastman
John Farrow
Director
James Burke
Headquarters Police Officer
John Twist
Writer
Nella Walker
Mrs. Betty Fernack
Willie Best
Algernon, Simon's Butler (Uncredited)
Leslie Charteris
Writer
Robert Sisk
Producer
Paul E. Burns
Organ Grinder (Uncredited)
Frank Redman
Cinematographer
Kernan Cripps
Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
Jack Hively
Editor
Jack Gargan
Plane Passenger (Uncredited)
Tris Coffin
Second Newscaster (Uncredited)
Gerald Hamer
Val's Butler (Uncredited)
Robert Homans
Policer Officer Moriarity (Uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Policeman in Commissioner's Office (Uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Police Captain Taylor (Uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Policeman with Cullis (Uncredited)
Ted Oliver
Police Forensic Scientist (Uncredited)
Ben Taggart
New York Detective Vance (Uncredited)
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Details.
Release DateMarch 8, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 4m
Content RatingNR
Budget$128,000
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Wiki.
The Saint Strikes Back is a 1939 American crime film directed by John Farrow. It marks the second cinematic incarnation of the antihero crimefighting character Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". George Sanders replaced Louis Hayward, who had played the Saint in The Saint in New York. The movie was produced by RKO and also featured Wendy Barrie as female gang leader Val Travers. Barrie would appear in two more Saint films, playing different roles each time, though not in the next film in the series, The Saint in London. This was the second of eight films in RKO's film series about The Saint, and the first of five with Sanders in the title role (Hugh Sinclair took over for the final two).
In the film The Saint foils an assassination attempt by a member of Val Travers' gang, but is wanted in connection to the killing before joining the police in their efforts to stop Travers and apprehend a shadowy criminal mastermind.
The script was based on the Leslie Charteris novel She Was a Lady (Hodder and Stoughton, 1931) which was also published as Angels of Doom and The Saint Meets His Match. The screenplay was by John Twist, who set the story in San Francisco (the book is set in England). Robert Sisk produced and John Farrow directed.