The Saint's Vacation (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.6/10   

Director:

Leslie Fenton

Escritores:

Leslie Charteris (novel)
Leslie Charteris (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 mayo 1941 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Misterio

Plot:

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box. |

Plot Keywords:

Music Box | Vacation | The Saint | Reporter | Foreign Agent

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"The Saint" has no vacation from crime...

Reparto

Hugh Sinclair	...	Simon Templar, aka The Saint
Sally Gray	...	Mary Langdon
Cecil Parker	...	Rudolph Hauser
Arthur Macrae	...	Monty Hayward
Leueen MacGrath	...	Valerie (as Leueen Macgrath)
Gordon McLeod	...	Inspector Teal
John Warwick	...	Gregory
Manning Whiley	...	Marko
Felix Aylmer	...	Charles Leighton
Ivor Barnard	...	Emil

Duración:

61 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-11 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Locaciones de Filmación:

D&P Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

RKO Radio British Productions

Trivialidades:

RKO decided to form a British Company to utilize funds frozen by the British government because of the "Films Act," which limited money taken out of the country to 50% of revenues earned from American films distributed in Great Britain. This was the first film made using those frozen funds.

Citas:

Monty Hayward: I refuse to be involved in this any further!
Mary Langdon: Is he really going?
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Yes, as far as the bar.

Conexiones de Película:

Sigue The Saint Takes Over (1940)

"The Saint" has no vacation from crime...

Entertaining little low-budget entry from Great Britain, it has HUGH SINCLAIR as "The Saint" involved immediately in getting hold of a music box that holds some sort of war secret--although the war itself is never actually named and kept strictly out of sight. SALLY GRAY makes a pleasant female lead, a newspaper reporter who is a lot braver than The Saint's sidekick, played by ARTHUR MACRAE in a most annoying manner. He makes Dr. Watson's Nigel Bruce look like a brain surgeon.

With some obvious studio backgrounds subbing for Switzerland locales, this caper moves along at a fast pace, filling every one of its one hour running time with story development that never lets up.

CECIL PARKER is a smooth villain, but the story has all the familiar ingredients we've come to expect in any Saint outing. The McGuffin is clearly the music box and the plot is kept simple with everyone's concentration on getting hold of it.

Summing up: Passes the time quickly and pleasantly, but Hugh Sinclair is no replacement for George Sanders, no matter how British he is.