The George Sanders Saint Movie Collection (2 Disc)

"I'm very sorry, but, uh, under certain conditions I simply can't resist the temptation to be a cad."
With his perceived snooty ways and that vaguely sinister air and his awesomely snide but oh-so-elegant delivery of dialogue (man, that rich baritone!), it's a cinch that Englishman George Sanders would land scripts offering him the plum villain role. But, once in a blue moon, the gent did end up playing the heroic lead. Case in point, he starred in several B-flicks in the Falcon franchise. And, before that, he breathed life into the adventurer and amateur sleuth Simon Templar a.k.a. the Saint. Sanders was, hands down, more memorable than Louis Hayward and Hugh Sinclair, the two actors who bookended him in the franchise. This two-disc set, THE GEORGE SANDERS SAINT MOVIES COLLECTION, serves up all five of Sanders' briskly-paced exploits as the Saint, a champion of the underdog and of fair play and who abides by the law when it suits, and goes his own way when it doesn't. And who doesn't love the Saint's signature calling card and that haunting theme song he tends to whistle at the drop...

George Sanders is great as the Saint
This set includes all five movies with George Sanders as "the Saint", although you may be forgiven if you've confused some Saint and Falcon movies in your mind. He did three Falcon films later.

Sadly, the set includes no special features of any kind, and the movies are pretty short: 64, 77, 67, 67, and 66 minutes.

But Sanders is just great as the Saint and like the "Thin Man" movies, you'll enjoy re-watching these periodically just for the witty repartee.

These don't appear to be available elsewhere, and are "out of stock" as I write this in Oct. 2011, so you might want to purchase this item sooner than later.

Now if they'd just come out with a Falcon set...

George Sanders as the Saint
I was alwaysa fan of the Saint when I was younger, I loved the radio program, the short stories and books, and I really loved the movies. If you have not seen these movies before, the both entertaining and and mysterious. I gave the review 5 stars, but I am prejudice.

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