Simon Templar/The Saint
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On an ocean liner making its way to New York, Simon Templar, "the Saint", rescues a fellow passenger from card cheats, though she refuses to give him her name and is offended when he kisses her without invitation. He later sends the mysterious woman a rose corsage by way of apology.
The Saint Takes Over: Directed by Jack Hively. With George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle. Inspector Fernack is framed by a cartel of five gangsters and Simon does his best to prove it before all the conspirators are murdered by a mysterious killer.
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The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth of eight films in RKO's film series about Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris.
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who's been framed on bribery charges.
A cartel of five notorious gang kingpins concocts a scheme to frame Inspector Henry Fernack as corrupt by planting $50,000 in his safe. The Saint sets out to exonerate his friend, but one by one, the ganglords are being murdered by a mysterious killer.
After a transatlantic voyage, Simon "The Saint" Templar (George Sanders) arrives in New York to help his old friend, Inspector Fernack (Jonathan Hale), who has been suspended from the police...
