Oct 11, 2022
The Saint: The Spanish Cow (4.8, ITC, 1965)
"Oh Simon, you're a wonderful man!"
"Yes, I know. It's the clean living."
#the saint#the spanish cow#itc#1965#leslie charteris#michael cramoy#john gilling#roger moore#gary raymond#viviane ventura#nancy nevinson#arnold diamond#leonard sachs#michael wynne#david jackson#nicholas donnelly#terry yorke#back on the french riviera‚ so naturally we're visited by Col. Latignant once again. he gets rather more to do here than in some#of his other outings‚ and he's even given a bumbling assistant to spark off (played with deadpan splendour by Michael Wynne)#the plot is fairly familiar guff about valuable diamonds and a country in need (the fictional Santa Cruz; I know there are many real Santa#Cruzes but I don't think any are countries?). Simon must help or not help the widow of a former dictator.. perhaps wisely (or perhaps#cowardly) he never really gets drawn into the political aspect of the discussion‚ focusing instead on doing his diamond thief biz#terry nation would have written this very differently imo. anyway. Gary Raymond gets to chew the scenery as the villain; he was a good get#for the team too‚ having made a couple of high profile films and starred in an adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit for the bbc the previous#year (sadly lost); the following year he'd be starring in The Rat Patrol in the US. Viviane Ventura also travelled over the pond to try and#make it big but with less success (she did a couple of MfU and Get Smart eps). both are still with us happily‚ and Raymond in fact still#acting (he can be glimpsed in House of the Dragon atm!).
