While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Leueen MacGrath
- Valerie
- (as Leueen Macgrath)
Eric Clavering
- Reporter at door
- (uncredited)
Noel Dainton
- Commissaire
- (uncredited)
Roddy Hughes
- Valet
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRKO decided to form a British Company to utilize funds frozen by the British government because of the "Films Act," which limited money taken out of the country to 50% of revenues earned from American films distributed in Great Britain. This was the first film made using those frozen funds.
- GoofsWhen Mary leave's her apartment in England to chase the Saint she packs one suitcase. Later when she arrives at Dorfeld and asks the porter where to find a taxi, she has a suitcase and hatbox.
- Quotes
Monty Hayward: I refuse to be involved in this any further!
Mary Langdon: Is he really going?
Simon Templar, aka The Saint: Yes, as far as the bar.
- ConnectionsFollowed by The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
Featured review
Brisk Little B-Thriller
One of the two Saint films that RKO made in Britain, THE SAINT'S VACATION is a brisk little tale in which the eponymous hero (Hugh Sinclair) successfully smuggles a box out of an unnamed Central European country, containing a vital device essential to Britain's future position in the World, aided and abetted by journalist Mary Langdon (Sally Gray) and amiable duffer Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae). Looked at today, one cannot help but admire the way in which director Leslie Fenton makes use of very limited resources, in which stock footage is spliced together with studıo-bound sequences shot against very obvious backdrops. His main technique for sustaining our attention is through fast cuts between close-ups and two-shots, while encouraging his actors to play their roles to the hilt. Sinclair turns in a characteristically suave performance that contrasts with Macrae's cowardly Monty who perpetually desires a quiet life away from everything. Needless to say no one ever listens to him; and he is unwittingly drawn into the action when the Saint hides the box in Monty's traveling-bag. The husky-voiced Gray turns in a competent performance, even though she doesn't have much to do in the fight-sequences other than to put her hands up to her face in terror. Cast against type, Cecil Parker makes a good hissable villain with a penchant for turning his top lip up in distaste. He tries his best to remain detached from the action, leaving most of the dirty work to his sidekick Gregory (John Warwick). While the story might be unmemorable, THE SAINT'S VACATION offers several incidental pleasures for anyone looking to while away an entertaining hour.
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- l_rawjalaurence
- Aug 1, 2014
Details
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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