THE FELLOW TRAVELLER is a solid opening for series two of THE SAINT, feeling more like a Bond flick than ever with Peter Yates at the helm. The story is one involving the theft of valuable blueprints, with a sinister criminal organisation working behind the scenes. Dawn Addams, of Hammer's THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, plays the femme fatale of the piece. There are attempted poisonings, truck chases, fight scenes, assassinations, and more besides, all wrapped up in a fast-paced screenplay.
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The Fellow Traveller
Prismark1015 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Directed by the renowned Peter Yates. The opener of series two takes a step up from many stories from the first series.
This has elements of John Le Carre, Len Deighton and Ian Fleming.
The Saint has been sent to rendezvous with a man called Henry Matson who betrayed his country.
Matson got into gambling debts. Then he was made to give blueprints of a secret research project he was working on.
However Matson is killed before he can tell Simon Templar more information.
To find the killers, The Saint goes to a club that Matson frequented. He meets a glamorous Hungarian emigre Magda Vanoff who got Matson into gambling debts.
The Saint places some personal ads in newspapers to lure a man called Nick Vashetti out in the open. He dealt with a foreign spy ring and also ends up dead.
This was a much enjoyable story, some depth to it. As Simon Templar is told when he confronts the main baddie. This was a foreign organisation that not only stole secret plans but attempted sabotage such as wildcat strikes.
A series of small attempts to destabilise Britain. These days it is not the lefties who resort to such things.
This has elements of John Le Carre, Len Deighton and Ian Fleming.
The Saint has been sent to rendezvous with a man called Henry Matson who betrayed his country.
Matson got into gambling debts. Then he was made to give blueprints of a secret research project he was working on.
However Matson is killed before he can tell Simon Templar more information.
To find the killers, The Saint goes to a club that Matson frequented. He meets a glamorous Hungarian emigre Magda Vanoff who got Matson into gambling debts.
The Saint places some personal ads in newspapers to lure a man called Nick Vashetti out in the open. He dealt with a foreign spy ring and also ends up dead.
This was a much enjoyable story, some depth to it. As Simon Templar is told when he confronts the main baddie. This was a foreign organisation that not only stole secret plans but attempted sabotage such as wildcat strikes.
A series of small attempts to destabilise Britain. These days it is not the lefties who resort to such things.
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