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The Saint is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick, and starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija.
Charteris, a highly bright and gifted individual, was one of the first members of Mensa, and invented his own sign language, Paleneo. He died in 1993, four years before the Saint returned to screens – the big screen again this time – in the 1997 film starring Val Kilmer.
Apr 4, 2017 · Based on a mystery book series by Leslie Charteris, the story had been made into films during the 1930s and ’40s, as well as into a British television series starring pre-Bond Roger Moore, so...
- Kate Knibbs
A series of novels, short stories, and novellas authored by Anglo-Chinese writer Leslie Charteris between 1928 and 1997; centered around the character Simon Templar / The Saint. The character is a heroic charming investigator operating as a contemporary Robin Hood -like vigilante with various aliases and disguises who is characterized by his ...
Apr 4, 1997 · The movie opens with the Saint’s origination story, although the time line seems a bit askew. The man who was to name himself after the Knights Templar spent his boyhood, we learn, in a Dickensian orphanage somewhere in the Far East.
Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
The latter is a nerdy scientist persona created for the benefit of Emma Russell (Elisabeth Shue), who is allegedly a great authority on cold fusion. This calls for Dr. Russell, at one point in the...
