"The Saint in Europe, and on TV" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jun 2020 9:13 p.m. PST |
"This is another instalment in my project of comparing episodes of classic 1950s-1970s TV series with their literary sources. In this case I'm going to look at the stories from the 1953 Leslie Charteris collection The Saint in Europe. Charteris's Saint stories fall into several distinct phases with Simon Templar evolving by stages from the incredibly brash cocky hero of the 1930s to the more thoughtful, slightly wiser and just so ever so slightly sadder but more sophisticated Templar of the 1950s. So these stories all feature that final version of the Saint. While the Saint might be older and wiser he still has a very flexible attitude towards the law. Stealing is of course wrong and the Saint would never do such a thing. But stealing from other thieves – that's not really stealing is it? And he continues to derive a great deal of harmless amusement from causing annoyance to policemen…"
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| Old Wolfman | 21 Jul 2020 10:32 a.m. PST |
I also listened to a classic radio adaptation starring Vincent Price as Templar. |
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