The Saint (film, 1997)

Synopsis

A man called “the Saint” earns his living while flying of the invaluable objects: experimental electronic chip, table X, etc When it receives the order to steal work of one professor to the day before to discover the secrecy of the cold Fusion, it does not suspect that it will have mesh to leave with a Russian gangster . Not only it will have to save its life, but also that of the woman whom it loves.

The film makes us pass from rich the old workings of London to the dirtiest places of Moscow, with a fast visit of the the Kremlin.

Data sheet

original Title: Holy The
Realization: Phillip Noyce
Scenario: Jonathan Hensleigh, according to the character created by Leslie Charteris
Production: David Brown and Robert Evans
Music: Graeme Revell
Photography: Phil Meheux
Assembly: Terry Rawlings
Comings out date: April 4th 1997 (Canada, the USA), June 18th 1997 (Belgium, France)
Lasted: 116 minutes (1. 56)

Distribution

Val Kilmer: Simon Templar
Elisabeth Shue: Dr. Emma Russell
Roads Serbedzija: Ivan Tretiak
Valeri Nikolayev : Ilya Tretiak
Henry Goodman: Dr. Lev Botvin
Alum Armstrong: inspector Teal
Michael Byrne: Vereshagin, henchman of Ivan Tretiak
Yevgeni Lazarev: chair Karpov
Lev Prygunov: general Sklarov
Charlotte Cornwell: inspector Rabineau
Velibor Topic: Skinhead
Tommy Flanagan : Scarface

Around film

This film, partly inspired by the novels of Leslie Charteris whose hero carries this nickname, fact part of long series of films introducing the same character: Simon Templar. The receipt is only modernized.

There is a fault of assembly in the Québécois version of film: when the Saint tries to force a safe, the sequences are mixed, letting accept a repetition its gestures.

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