Sep 15, 2023
The Saint: Vendetta for the Saint - Part 1 (6.15, ITC, 1969)
"Want some advice? Go easy."
"And mine to you is pull out - before I start breaking his world up."
"What?"
"You heard."
"Dear man, have you any idea what you're taking on?"
"No, but I'll pick it up as I go along."
"You won't get six feet. Well, maybe: laid out in your best suit."
#the saint#vendetta for the saint#itc#1969#leslie charteris#jim o'connolly#john kruse#harry w. junkin#roger moore#ian hendry#rosemary dexter#aimi macdonald#george pastell#marie burke#fulton mackay#peter kristof#peter madden#guy deghy#charles houston#edward evans#malya nappi#eileen way#ooh we're really in the final stretch now. 1969! the show started in 1962‚ it had occupied most of the 60s by this point (a tumultuous and#culturally unique decade). here we hit the second two parter‚ coming quick after the first‚ but a very different fish: where the fiction#makers chose to go bigger‚ zanier‚ weirder (all laser beams and cartoonish villains‚ eccentric side characters and many#explosions) this second movie length outing instead takes a very standard Saint formula (he is sort of witness to a murder and so decides#to bring down the killer and mafia too) and just does it.. more thoroughly‚ i guess? takes advantage of the longer running time and what#was presumably a higher budget to simply add more spectacle to a solid Saint adventure. it works! this is pretty good! fancy location work#(at an actual location! the team shot extensively in Malta for this 2 parter)‚ a helicopter‚ car chases and gun battles. it's the series#finally realising what it's always wanted to be thanks to a last minute splurge of the coffers. pretty good stuff
