The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

The Saint Strikes Back (1939) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by John Farrow and produced by Robert Sisk.

Watching 1939: The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them.?As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, tha... Read full article

The Saint Strikes Back

???? Moviegoers had no lack of detective/murder mystery movie plots to entertain them in the 1930s and 1940s and perhaps the story lines of The Saint movies offered nothing particularly unique, but George Sanders in embodying Simon Templar surely did. The Saint Strikes Back was the first of a handfu... Read full article

What to Watch Saturday: The Saint Strikes Back

The Saint Strikes Back (1939) I was quite thrilled to find one of the Saint movies airing on TCM this weekend and was thrown?back into memories of a couple years ago when I?watched probably all of the films in the series. The Saint Strikes Back is the either the first or second in a series of five f... Read full article

The Saint Strikes Back (1939, John Farrow)

The Saint Strikes Back is George Sanders’s first Saint film. It’s strong, even though John Farrow might not be the right director for it. The script’s great, playing to Sanders’s strengths of being the charming cad, but Farrow’s close-ups are poorly conceived and some o... Read full article