George Sanders stops Wendy Barrie from being fleeced by a bunch of shipboard gamblers. He reads that his old pal Inspector Jonathan Hale, is suspended because $50,000 has been found in his safe. On showing up, he learns that Hale has been investigating a race-fixing racket, who wanted him put out of commission. Sanders offers to investigate, and soon enough the lawyer who has been fronting the group is shot in his home, and $90,000 in cash is missing from his safe.
I figured it out about 30 minutes into its 69 minute run, but it seems to me the best written of all of them. It was the first one not based on a Charteris book, and I believe that had a good deal to do with its excellence. This is not Charteris' Saint, it's Sanders', and the story could be written to suit his talents. His motivation is a simple and soft one, to help out a pal, and he claims to do some thinking here. He may even do it -- the character, I mean, not Sanders.
There are the usual errors caused by shooting everything on the RKO lot. The final confrontation takes place on a half-used suburban street, with a white picket fence and a low-rise detached apartment building, which backs onto a high-rise alleyway. Even stranger, what's actually on that block is Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
With Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway, Robert Emmet Keane, and Cy Kendall.
I figured it out about 30 minutes into its 69 minute run, but it seems to me the best written of all of them. It was the first one not based on a Charteris book, and I believe that had a good deal to do with its excellence. This is not Charteris' Saint, it's Sanders', and the story could be written to suit his talents. His motivation is a simple and soft one, to help out a pal, and he claims to do some thinking here. He may even do it -- the character, I mean, not Sanders.
There are the usual errors caused by shooting everything on the RKO lot. The final confrontation takes place on a half-used suburban street, with a white picket fence and a low-rise detached apartment building, which backs onto a high-rise alleyway. Even stranger, what's actually on that block is Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
With Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway, Robert Emmet Keane, and Cy Kendall.