The Saint in New York

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Louis Hayward and Kay Sutton in The Saint in New York (1938)

Simon Templar, le Saint, est amené à New York. Sa recherche de l'identité du « Big Fellow » le mène à travers de nombreuses situations dangereuses.Simon Templar, le Saint, est amené à New York. Sa recherche de l'identité du « Big Fellow » le mène à travers de nombreuses situations dangereuses.Simon Templar, le Saint, est amené à New York. Sa recherche de l'identité du « Big Fellow » le mène à travers de nombreuses situations dangereuses.

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Louis Hayward

Simon Templar, aka The Saint

Kay Sutton

Fay Edwards

Sig Ruman

Hutch Rellin
(as Sig Rumann)

Jonathan Hale

Inspector Henry Fernack

Jack Carson

Red Jenks

Paul Guilfoyle

Hymie Fanro

Frederick Burton

William Valcross

Ben Welden

Boots Papinoff

Charles Halton

Vincent Nather

Cliff Bragdon

Sebastian Lipke

Jay Adler

Eddie, a Hood
(uncredited)

George Anderson

Bonacci
(uncredited)

Leon Belasco

Driver
(uncredited)

Stanley Blystone

Policeman at the Zoo
(uncredited)

Shirley Coates

Viola Throckmorton
(uncredited)

Harry Depp

Shooting Witness
(uncredited)

Lester Dorr

Jacob S. 'Jake'
(uncredited)
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Paul Fix

Phil Farrell, Doorman at the Silver Club
(uncredited)

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Anecdotes
The kidnapped child is Viola Throckmorton. In the novel, her name was Viola Inselheim, daughter of a prominent Jewish businessman. This is one of several alterations of ethnicity in the film adaptation. "Dutch," a gangster, becomes "Hutch" in the film. This was a possible reference to New York mobster Dutch Schultz - born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer - who was killed in 1935.

Gaffes
Templar speaks the cabby's phone number, then dials it. It's Columbus 5-1098; on a rotary dial phone, 0, 9 and 8 are all full or nearly full turns of the dial, but when he dials it, it's all small turns until the last digit.

Citations
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: [flags down cab which brakes hard. Leans in] I smell burning rubber.
Sebastian Lipke, Taxi Driver: Best brakes in town, Boss, where to?
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: [Gets in] 49th, near 8th.
[reads taxi license on back of seat]
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Just forget about those lights, Sebastian.
Sebastian Lipke, Taxi Driver: [looks back] Say, I know you!
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Why shouldn't you? My life's an open book.
Sebastian Lipke, Taxi Driver: [looks back again] Why, you're the Saint! I seen your picture in tonight's paper!
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Terrible picture. Made me look like Tarzan.

Autres versions
Possibly for local censorship reasons some theatrical prints delete the brief scene revealing that the nun at the scene of the first of the Saint's killings was the Saint. Rather than a straight cut, it dissolves from the bystanders crowding round the body to the Saint's conversation after he has divested himself of the nun's habit.

Connexions
Followed by The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

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7/10

Stylish b noir

The first Saint movie was a very good effort, true to the spirit of the book albeit made on the cheap by RKO. I grew up thinking that Roger Moore was the Saint and no-one could top him, but have to admit that Louis Haywood was just right in the title role with the right amount of debonair, imperturbable devil-may-care attitude. I hadn't seen this for over 10 years until off UK cable TV tonight, but there was a small but significant chunk of action which for some reason was cut out of the print shown. I hope the full version is still out there somewhere!

The Saint is "hired" by the NYPD to flush out and deal with a group of gangsters strangling the city. In his role as unpaid mercenary Prince he has to deal in his own inimitable fashion with 7 metaphorical dwarf hoodlums before moving on to the shadowy "Big Fellow" whilst falling in love with an alluring raven-haired femme fatale. This is Snow White for adults!

A real pity Haywood only played the Saint this glorious once in Hollywood - I don't count his 50's British attempt - although Sanders was very funny in his 5 films didn't really hit the right note. My favourite Haywood film came much later, Fritz Lang's "House by the river", an overlooked suspense gem from 1950.