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The Saint - The Fiction Makers [VHS] [1967]
 
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The Saint - The Fiction Makers [VHS] [1967]

VHS ~ Roger Moore
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms, Justine Lord, Kenneth J. Warren
  • Directors: Roy Ward Baker
  • Format: PAL
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • VHS Release Date: 22 May 2000
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004S8FQ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,333 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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The Saint stumbles across a gang who have modelled themselves on characters from a novel and who plan to kidnap the author.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Rgoer Enjoys It Moore Than Bond, 25 Aug 2001
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I saw this a few days ago along with The Persuders (made around the same time), overall it has more humour than other outings of "The Saint"'and it seems to be better produced too.

It has the sort of daft story that one would expect, and Roger Moore is developing that acting eye-brow that became his trademark in his later Bond outings. All that aside, this is a feature length episode of "The Saint" that has enough surprises and corny lines to make it enjoyable enough to come back to later.

The supporting actors do a good job to, with Sylvia Sims really stealing the show and putting Roger Moore somewhat in the shade. All good fun though, and certainly one of the stronger "Saint" stories with an apparently bigger budgat that later episodes (I could tell because they seemed to get out of the studio a bit more; especially during the car chase scenes). A good introduction to "The Saint" if you are unfamiliar; and a better episode if you are.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable Saint TV movie, 21 Jun 2009
By Helen "hw" (England) - See all my reviews
The Saint was my teen hero and I was delighted when Roger Moore took on the TV series, but the TV scrips weren't I felt often up to the quality of the original books. The books are tremendous fun and Charteris's Saint isn't just a superlative action hero - Charteris has a real gift for writing exciting action, but also a loquatious and opinionated hero who delights the readers with his views on all kinds of things, and also with a soft spot for women and considerable gallantry, so that some of the baddie females escape their just desserts due to his gallantry though he doesn't hesitate when they really deserve to lose. I must admit that latter degree of self-indulgence didn't always please me. I sometimes felt they got away with too much!

In the TV series, however it's mostly far too anodyne, though I gather this was to fit in with the 60's ethos and to avoid annoying the viewers. Charteris's other gift, for writing humour, does come through quite well in the TV series, and of course Roger Moore with his courtly charm and good manners (which of course the original Saint also has) is absolutely excellent in the part. Nonetheless, after seeeing Moore as Bond soon after, I can see what the Saint could have been if Moore had been allowed to act the Saint as the stronger and more vengeful character he was in the books, more on the lines of Bond but still with the courtliness and humour and it's a shame too that the scripts omitted nearly everything of the Saint's always entertaining lectures on just about anything that cropped up. I suppose the script writers either didn't have it in them or didn't have the time for lectures in one hour and perhaps the audiences wouldn't have liked it!

The Beeb made 2 movie-length Saint episodes and this is the least good (the other being Vendetta for the Saint) but both are enjoyable. This one is all about making movies/tv etc with the usual batch of criminals and a pretty heroine for Simon to flirt with and save and all the rest of it. Lots of fun. A little old fashioned as are all these TV eps now, but such a relief in other ways from the increasinly tedious grimness and violence and explicit sex of many modern TV series.
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