"1997 Internationally the film earned $108 million, with a worldwide total of $169.4 million (equivalent to $245.3 million in 2012 dollars). Critical response for the film was mixed to negative, with a Metascore of 50/100, based on 22 professional film critic reviews provided by Metacritic. It has a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 reviews with the consensus stating: """"The Saint"" is watchable thanks to Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue, but the film's muddled screenplay stretches credulity."" Edward Guthmann of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" notes Kilmer is the ""master of disguises"", as ""Templar's genius, like Kilmer's, involves slipping"
"The Saint (2017 film) The Saint is a 2017 espionage thriller TV movie directed by Ernie Barbarash and starring Adam Rayner in the title role of Simon Templar, created by Leslie Charteris. This was Sir Roger Moore's final film appearance and the film was dedicated to his memory; Moore portrayed Templar in a 1960s TV series of the same title. Filmed in 2013 as a television pilot for a proposed TV series, the film was not originally intended for release when the series was not picked up. It eventually saw release direct-to-video in 2017 when it was released in tribute"
"Dr Moreau"". That year, Kilmer starred alongside Michael Douglas in the thriller ""The Ghost and the Darkness"". In 1997 he played Simon Templar in the popular action film, ""The Saint"". Kilmer looked forward to the title role as a change toward a more fun, less serious action thriller, while enjoying the ""master of disguise"" chameleon characters like a mad artist, a nerdy British scientist, a cleaner, and a Russian mob boss. Kilmer also wrote the poetry in the film. He received a salary of $6 million for the movie. ""The Saint"" was a financial success, grossing $169.4 million worldwide. In"
"film of ""The Saint"" started with the powerhouse above-the-line team of Robert Evans as producer, Steven Zaillian as writer and Sydney Pollack as director. Ralph Fiennes—hot from ""Schindler's List"" and ""Quiz Show""—was offered $1 million for the lead, but eventually passed. In a 1994 interview for ""Premiere"" magazine, Fiennes said the screenplay—racing fast cars, breaking into Swiss banks—was nothing he hadn't seen before. Robert Evans left the project—although, contractually, his name remains on the final film's credits—and David Brown (""Jaws"", ""Driving Miss Daisy"") took over. A new story was commissioned from Jonathan Hensleigh (""Die Hard with a Vengeance""), which cast"
"The Saint (film series) ""The Saint"" (film series) refers to eight B movies made by RKO Pictures between 1938 and 1941, based on some of the books in British author Leslie Charteris' long-running series about the fictional character Simon Templar, better known as ""The Saint"". A few years after creating the character in 1928, Charteris was successful in getting RKO Radio Pictures interested in a film based on one of his books. The first, ""The Saint in New York"", came in 1938 and was based on the 1935 novel of the same name. It starred Louis Hayward as Simon Templar"
"the series, but this did not occur. In 1960, a French-Italian film entitled ""Le Saint mène la danse"", with Felix Marten playing The Saint, was released with very limited success. It was not until 1962 and the TV series ""The Saint"", starring Roger Moore, that the character achieved lasting success beyond the literary world. The next English-language cinema film featuring the character wouldn't be released until 1997, with Val Kilmer playing the character in ""The Saint"". Derek Winnert called it ""a very watchable British stab at reviving the series,"" adding that ""With its neat plot and decent sly sense of"
"Saint novels from the 1920s through to the early 1940s, this was only the second production (after the 1943 film ""The Saint Meets the Tiger"") in which she appeared. The Saint (2017 film) The Saint is a 2017 espionage thriller TV movie directed by Ernie Barbarash and starring Adam Rayner in the title role of Simon Templar, created by Leslie Charteris. This was Sir Roger Moore's final film appearance and the film was dedicated to his memory; Moore portrayed Templar in a 1960s TV series of the same title. Filmed in 2013 as a television pilot for a proposed TV"
"Playing God (1997 film) Playing God is a 1997 American thriller crime drama film directed by Andy Wilson and written by Mark Haskell Smith. It stars David Duchovny (in his first starring role after achieving success with ""The X-Files""), Timothy Hutton, and Angelina Jolie. Duchovny plays Eugene Sands, a surgeon who has his medical license revoked after operating under the influence of amphetamines and opiates. Hutton's character, a crime lord named Raymond Blossom, happens upon him in a bar where Sands saves someone's life with an emergency procedure to inflate a collapsed lung. Blossom hires Sands as his personal physician,"
"Pale Saints (film) Pale Saints is an American-Canadian crime film, directed by Joel Wyner and released in 1997. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Louis and Michael Riley as Dody, small-time thugs trying to gain acceptance with the mafia by driving to Toronto for a crime job that goes catastrophically wrong. The film's cast also includes Saul Rubinek, Rachael Crawford, Maury Chaykin, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Blicker, Julian Richings and Patrick Gallagher. The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 19th Genie Awards, for Best Director (Wyner), Best Supporting Actor (2: Riley, Rubinek), Best Supporting Actress (Crawford) and Best"
"the TV movie ""The Saint"" on 11 July 2017. Since 1938, numerous films have been produced in the United States, France and Australia based to varying degrees upon The Saint. A few were based, usually loosely, upon Charteris's stories, but most were original. This is a list of the films featuring Simon Templar and of the actors who played The Saint: In the 1930s, RKO purchased the rights to produce a film adaptation of ""Saint Overboard,"" but no such movie was ever produced. Three of the most recent actors to play Templar — Roger Moore, Ian Ogilvy, and Simon Dutton"
"The Reluctant Saint The Reluctant Saint is a 1962 film which tells the story of Joseph of Cupertino, a 17th-century Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. It stars Maximilian Schell as Joseph, as well as Ricardo Montalbán, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, and Harold Goldblatt. The movie was written by John Fante and Joseph Petracca and directed by Edward Dmytryk. Joseph of Cupertino was said to have been remarkably unclever, but was recorded by many witnesses during his life as prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstasies. This movie follows Joseph"
"Costume Design (Tamara Winston). Pale Saints (film) Pale Saints is an American-Canadian crime film, directed by Joel Wyner and released in 1997. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Louis and Michael Riley as Dody, small-time thugs trying to gain acceptance with the mafia by driving to Toronto for a crime job that goes catastrophically wrong. The film's cast also includes Saul Rubinek, Rachael Crawford, Maury Chaykin, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Blicker, Julian Richings and Patrick Gallagher. The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 19th Genie Awards, for Best Director (Wyner), Best Supporting Actor (2: Riley, Rubinek), Best Supporting"
"The Saint: The Big Bang The Saint: The Big Bang is a 1990 TV film featuring Simon Dutton as Simon Templar, the crimefighter also known as The Saint. It was one of a series of ""Saint"" films produced in Australia and broadcast as part of the syndicated series ""Mystery Wheel of Adventure"". The Saint teams up with a newspaper woman to explore the deaths surrounding a corporate takeover. This movie was one of six 100-minute TV films, all starring Simon Dutton made for London Weekend Television (LWT) in the United Kingdom, it was postponed due to poor ratings, but went"
"The Saint's Double Trouble The Saint's Double Trouble is a 1940 action-adventure film produced by RKO Pictures. The film stars George Sanders as Simon Templar, a.k.a. ""The Saint"", a master criminal turned crime-fighter, and features horror film legend Bela Lugosi as ""The Partner"". This was the fourth of eight films in RKO's film series about the character created by Leslie Charteris, and the first film to not be directly based upon one of the original Saint books, although Charteris did contribute to developing the story for the film. In this production, Sanders plays a dual role, not only that of"
"The Apostle The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, Miranda Richardson and Billy Joe Shaver also appear. It was filmed on location in and around Saint Martinville and Des Allemands, Louisiana with some establishing shots done in the Dallas, Texas area by a second unit before principal photography began. And main opening shots filmed in Grand Coteau and Lafayette Louisiana. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. For"
"an average score of 8.1/10. Roger Ebert gave it four out of four stars and called the film ""a lesson in how movies can escape from convention and penetrate the hearts of rare characters."" The Apostle The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, Miranda Richardson and Billy Joe Shaver also appear. It was filmed on location in and around Saint Martinville and Des Allemands, Louisiana with some establishing shots done in the Dallas, Texas area by a"
"as a possible director for the film. This was the first of eight films in RKO's film series about The Saint. After being replaced in the series by George Sanders, Hayward would not play The Saint again until 1953 in Hammer Films production of The Saint's Return. There had not been a Saint film made in twelve years. Police Lieutenant Martin, an officer leading the fight against New York gangsters, is killed. Jake Irbell is arrested and charged with his murder, but has to be released when prosecution witnesses are either coerced into changing their testimony or simply disappear. A"
"film's trailer.) The film featured the Volvo C70, a nod to the Volvo P1800 of the original series. Fort Amherst starred as a filming location for ""The Saint"" in 1997. The tunnels were used for the scene in which Simon receives a map in the Kremlin tunnel in Moscow. A novelization based upon the film script was written by Burl Barer. ""The Saint"" won the 1998 BMI Film Music Award. The songs ""Out of My Mind"" by Duran Duran and ""6 Underground"" by the Sneaker Pimps were played during the credits, and released as singles to promote the movie. The"
"The Blonde Saint The Blonde Saint is a 1926 American silent romantic-adventure film produced by Sam E. Rork and released through First National Pictures. Lewis Stone and Doris Kenyon star and young newcomer Gilbert Roland is featured. Producer Rork's 19-year-old daughter, Ann Rork, has a major role in the film as she has in her father's later produced ""The Notorious Lady"". Lewis Stone also returned in ""The Notorious Lady"". An abridged and or incomplete version of this film survives in the British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive, London. The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to"
"All Saints (film) All Saints is a 2017 American Christian drama film directed by Steve Gomer and written by Steve Armour. The film stars John Corbett, Cara Buono, Myles Moore, Nelson Lee, Barry Corbin, David Keith, Angela Fox, Chonda Pierce and Gregory Alan Williams, and follows a small-town Tennessee preacher who attempts to save his struggling church. It was released on August 25, 2017, by Affirm Films and Provident Films. Based on a true story, a salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock of a tiny Episcopal (Anglican) church in Smyrna, Tennessee is ordered to shut it down. He attempts to save the church,"
"The Saint (TV series) The Saint is an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It was based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s and featured in many novels over the years. He was played by Roger Moore. Templar helps those whom conventional agencies are powerless or unwilling to assist or protect, often using methods that skirt or are outside the law. Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal, his nominal nemesis, considers Templar a common criminal, but often grudgingly tolerates his actions for"
"played by Alun Armstrong. Besides Templar, Teal is the only character from the original canon to appear in this loosely based film. Claud Eustace Teal Claud Eustace Teal is a fictional character who made many appearances in a series of novels, novellas and short stories by Leslie Charteris featuring ""The Saint"", starting in 1929. A common spelling variation of his first name in reference works and websites is Claude, however in his works Charteris uses the spelling without the 'e'. Teal was a London-based police detective for Scotland Yard, with which he initially held the rank of Inspector. He first"
"executive Ronnie Waldman (1914–1978) (from 1953 to 1978). She died of a heart attack in Windsor, Berkshire, aged 68. Lana Morris Lana Morris, born Averil Maureen Anita Morris (11 March 1930 – 28 May 1998) was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s. She played the role of Helene in the 1967 BBC adaptation of ""The Forsyte Saga"", and appeared in many other television programmes. She worked with Roger Moore in ""The Saint"", appearing on the cover of an early 1960s tie-in reprinting of the novel ""The Saint in New York"". She later became a"
"who make up a family as well as the family itself? Or do families become, not support systems, but burdens of guilt, leading to damaging sacrifices of personal freedom?...As she explores the myriad ways in which dreams get deferred and hopes revised, infusing the prosaic details of domestic life with honor, humor, and deep affection, it is Anne Tyler's achievement to raise ordinariness to an art form."" In 1998, the novel was adapted for a ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" television film, starring Thomas McCarthy, Mary-Louise Parker, Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Melina Kanakaredes, Glynnis O'Connor, Bethel Leslie, and Denis O'Hare. Saint"
"and Jonathan Hale as Inspector Henry Farnack, the American counterpart to the British character, Chief inspector Claud Eustace Teal. The film was a success and seven more films followed rapidly. They were sometimes based upon outlines by Charteris, while others were based loosely on his novels or novellas. George Sanders took over from Hayward as The Saint in the second film, and starred in a further four between 1939 and 1941, before being enticed by RKO to play the lead in their forthcoming series about ""The Falcon"", which they made into a blatant copy of ""The Saint"". In 1941, Hugh"
"out as part of ""The Mystery Wheel of Adventure"" in the United States: The film was broadcast on 28 July 1990. The Saint: The Big Bang The Saint: The Big Bang is a 1990 TV film featuring Simon Dutton as Simon Templar, the crimefighter also known as The Saint. It was one of a series of ""Saint"" films produced in Australia and broadcast as part of the syndicated series ""Mystery Wheel of Adventure"". The Saint teams up with a newspaper woman to explore the deaths surrounding a corporate takeover. This movie was one of six 100-minute TV films, all starring"
"The Saint of Fort Washington The Saint of Fort Washington is a 1993 American drama film directed by Tim Hunter and starring Matt Dillon and Danny Glover. Dillon won best actor at the 1993 Stockholm Film Festival for his performance. Despite the poor box office returns, ""The Saint of Fort Washington"" was a critical success, many praising the performances of Matt Dillon and Danny Glover. Matthew is a young man with a good heart that suffers from sporadic schizophrenic tendencies. He ends up with nowhere to live after a slumlord tears down his tenement. With nowhere left to go, Matthew"
"The Devil's Advocate (1997 film) The Devil's Advocate (marketed as ""Devil's Advocate"") is a 1997 American supernatural horror film directed by Taylor Hackford, written by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, and starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, and Charlize Theron. Based on Andrew Neiderman's novel of the same name, it is about an unusually successful young Floridian lawyer (Reeves) invited to New York City to work for a major firm. As his wife (Theron) becomes haunted by frightening visual phenomena, the lawyer slowly begins to realize the owner of the firm (Pacino) is not what he appears to be, and is"
"The Saint: The Blue Dulac The Saint: The Blue Dulac is a 1989 TV film featuring Simon Dutton as Simon Templar, the crimefighter also known as The Saint. It was one of a series of ""Saint"" films produced in Australia and broadcast as part of the syndicated series ""Mystery Wheel of Adventure"". The Saint must trap a ruthless American with the help of twin sisters and a rare Russian necklace. This movie was one of six 100-minute TV films, all starring Simon Dutton made for London Weekend Television (LWT) in the United Kingdom, it was postponed due to poor ratings,"
"film met critical success and features several well-known actors, so far it has only been released on VHS with no public plans for a DVD release. Household Saints Household Saints is a 1993 film starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio and Lili Taylor. It was based on the novel by Francine Prose and directed by Nancy Savoca. The film explores the lives of three generations of Italian-American women over the course of the latter half of the 20th century. The film's executive producer is Jonathan Demme, a long-time friend of Savoca's, and her first real employer in the world of film."
"The Saint Strikes Back The Saint Strikes Back is a 1939 American crime film directed by John Farrow. It marks the second cinematic incarnation of the antihero crimefighting character Simon Templar, alias ""The Saint"". George Sanders replaced Louis Hayward, who had played the Saint in ""The Saint in New York"". The movie was produced by RKO and also featured Wendy Barrie as female gang leader Val Travers. Barrie would appear in two more Saint films, playing different roles each time, though not in the next film in the series, ""The Saint in London"". This was the second of eight films"
"films), and Barry Sullivan. Louise Arthur played Patricia Holm, Templar's assistant. Lawrence Dobkin played Louie, the cab driver. John Brown played Inspector Fernack, and Ken Christy played Hoppy, Templar's sidekick. Besides the versions broadcast in the United States, a six-episode version was broadcast in Ireland in 1940, and a three-episode version was broadcast by the BBC in 1995. The Saint (radio program) The Saint was a radio adventure program in the United States that featured a character (""a swashbuckling, devil-may-care Robin Hood type who, in his attempt to help people, remained just one step ahead of the police and crooks—both"
"Santa Santita Santa Santita, or Magdalena, The Unholy Saint, is a 2004 Filipino film starring Angelica Panganiban and Jericho Rosales, directed by Laurice Guillen. The film follows Malen, the daughter of an intercessor, her love affair with a hustler and gigolo, and her confrontation of the evil within her life. Based on a script by Jerry Gracio, the film was picked up by Guillen in 2000 but did not start production because an appropriate actress for Malen could not be found. After picking Panganiban, Guillen began work, and the eventual film was released on November 17, 2004, in the Philippines"