In #TheSaintInNewYork, the charmingly murderous hero racks up as large a bodycount as any pulp vigilante, but neither this, which was Leslie Charteris’s 1st US bestseller, nor the earlier Saint novels, were published in any pulp magazine, but by the respectable Hodder & Stratton.
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Wow, damn, okay
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"Don't you think a girl with a name like 'Viola Throckmorton' has enough trouble without getting kidnapped?"
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He does a bit, especially when he smiles
"My friends usually wash their hands before they hit me."
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Oh, that's right, he's in the 1945 film directed by René Clair! I forgot because the cast is so stacked — Judith Anderson, Mischa Auer, June Duprez, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Hayden, Walter Huston, C. Aubrey Smith, and Roland Young
I don't know if the psychopathic edge Louis Hayward has given Simon Templar is faithful to the character, having not read the books nor seen any of the other adaptations, but I'm enjoying it
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Nather is played by Charles Halton, one of the all-time great Hey-It's-That-Guy(s)
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Did you ever see the time loop noir #RepeatPerformance? Louis Hayward portrays the playwright and straying husband who the heroine inexplicably does not want to shoot
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"'The Saint' in New York!"
Title drop, drink! 🍾
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