The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
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Synopsis of The Saint Strikes Back
The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the first to star George Sanders in the role. Val Travers (Wendy Barrie) is the daughter of a police detective who killed himself after being dishonorably let go from the San Francisco Police Department, due to allegations that he was a member of a gang led by the mysterious criminal mastermind known only as Waldeman. Hoping to clear her father's name, Val has assembled a gang of minor criminal types to track down Waldeman, which puts her in trouble with the police. Templar crosses tracks with Val and, after hearing her story, believes that her father was framed, most likely by someone else working in the police department. Cullis, one of department's chief criminologists, dismisses this suggestion and implies that Templar might be Waldeman. Templar's investigations eventually find the real culprit and exonerates Val's father. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Saint Strikes Back
- George Sanders - Simon Templar, the Saint
- Jonathan Hale - Inspector Henry Fernack
- Neil Hamilton - Allan Breck
- Robert Elliott - Chief Inspector Webster
- Edward Gargan - Pinky Budd
- Gilbert Emery - Martin Eastman
- Willie Best - Algernon
- Nella Walker - Mrs. Lucy Fernack
- Tristram Coffin - Radio Announcer
- Wendy Barrie - Val Travers
- Jerome Cowan - Cullis
- Barry Fitzgerald - Zipper Dyson
- Russell Hopton - Harry Donnell
- Robert Strange - Police Commissioner
- James Burke - Secretary
- Robert E. Homans - Moriarity, Cop
- Paul E. Burns - Organ Grinder
- Director(s):
- John Farrow
- Writer(s):
- John Twist, Derek N. Twist
- Producer(s):
- Robert Sisk
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