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The Saint's Blog devoted to news and rumors about The Saint and Leslie Charteris. Simon Templar, alias The Saint, was played by Roger Moore in the 1960's TV show featuring the Volvo 1800.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
It is very rare that the artwork used on the covers of various Saint books is used twice, especially from country to country. The 1955 Swedish edition of Helgonet vid Spanska Sjön (The Saint on The Spanish Main) uses the exact same artwork as the 1955 American first edition of the same title by The Crime Club. Both editions feature cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.
You can tell that The Crime Club edition was first as there are still remnants of their clever Crime Club man (see if you can find the letters C.R.I.M.E. within) swimming in the ocean on the Swedish edition.
If you know of any other such double-use of cover artwork, please comment below.Labels: 2007, Foreign Language, Swedish, The Crime Club
Thursday, June 28, 2007
 The Saint by Leslie Charteris was published in Japan as セイント by レスリー・チャータリス.
The book pictured here is a 1966 Japanese (Kanji) edition of Nazo no kaito Saint of which the original English title is unknown. The cover artwork of this particular edition is fairly reminiscent of the Dutch editions that were done by Dick Bruna around the same time.
There are more pictures and information about the Japanese editions and all foreign language editions available.Labels: 2007, Dutch, Foreign Language, Japanese
Monday, June 25, 2007
 This is a picture of a very rare Korean (Hangul) edition of The Saint. It's a VHS tape of the 1997 Val Kilmer movie.
The Saint was known as 세인트 in Korea. It is not known if any books have been published, and please comment or e-mail if you know of any. Leslie Charteris' name was translated to 레슬리 차터리스 in Korean.
The page of foreign editions of The Saint has been updated with this information, and a few newly found Japanese editions have also be added.Labels: 2007, Foreign Language, Korean, Val Kilmer, VHS
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I have recently found a number of new Leslie Charteris foreign language editions of The Saint, and have therefore expanded that area of this site quite substantially. Look for the new Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, and Portuguese editions on the main foreign language page!
 Then look at the growing collection of artwork for the following languages:NOTE: The broken links have been fixed.Labels: 2007, Dutch, Finnish, Foreign Language, French, German, Italian, Leslie Charteris, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Some of the Roger Moore TV series has been published on DVD in Finland as three special DVD box sets.
The Saint was known as Pyhimys in Finland, and there were comic books and paperback editions of many of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris.
Pyhimys Vol. 1 is an 8-disc Box set, Pyhimys Vol. 2 is a 4-disc Box set, and Pyhimys Vol. 3 is a 2-disc Box set of the two Roger Moore Saint movies: Vendetta for The Saint and The Fiction-Makers.
These DVD's are published in Region 2 format.Labels: DVD, Finnish, Foreign Language, Roger Moore, TV
Thursday, May 31, 2007
And now for your viewing pleasure. The Star Wars Saint! This is the front cover of Gerçekleşen Düşler, a Turkish paperback edition of The Saint by Leslie Charteris. It is by far one of the strangest ones I've ever seen, as it features C3PO of Star Wars fame. What's the connection? Is there a ST3PO that we need to know more about?
 View more foreign language editions.Labels: 2007, Foreign Language, Star Wars, Turkish
Saturday, March 31, 2007
 The Saint by Leslie Charteris was first written in English and published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada for all those English-speaking readers around the world. Due to The Saint's popularity, most of The Saint stories were translated into a number of languages, including: French, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, Italian, Afrikaans, Czech, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Hungarian, Serbo-Kroat, Arabic, Norwegian, Finnish, Braille, and perhaps even others!
The success of the Roger Moore series led to a number of TV-tie-in editions in Spanish, Polish, English, and Hebrew, to name a few. When the Val Kilmer Saint movie came out, the Burl Barer novelization of the film was translated into quite a number of languages and might possibly be the most-translated title of all The Saint stories, next to The Saint in New York.
Another interesting fact is that some of the "translations" were never published in English at all. The French translator wrote many stores from radio scripts and comic strips, and while some of these novels were translated into Dutch, and perhaps other languages, they have never been translated back to English.
More details and cover scans are available at The Saint Around The World page of this website (www.saint.org), and your help is greatly appreciated in finding additional languages and book cover artwork.Labels: Dutch, Finnish, Foreign Language, French, German, Italian, Leslie Charteris, Polish, Portuguese, Roger Moore, Spanish, Turkish, Val Kilmer
Friday, March 30, 2007
 Dick Bruna is one of the few living Dutch artists to have achieved worldwide fame among young and old. He started drawing in 1940 and among the books he illustrated was the series entitled Zwarte Beertjes (Little Black Bears), which published a very large number of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris in Dutch.
Bruna has spent his later career developing his skills within the picture book genre, creating characters such as miffy. The work of Dick Bruna is distinguished by its simple and direct draughtsmanship. Not only has Bruna made more than a hundred picture books, he has also designed more than two thousand book covers, over one hundred posters, postcards and prints. Aged 78, he still works every day in his studio in Utrecht - this year he published his 114th title. The Dick Bruna collection of the Centraal Museum comprises more than 1,200 works. The Centraal Museum holds the collection on long-term loan.
The offical Dick Bruna website can be found at www.dickbruna.comLabels: Dick Bruna, Dutch, Foreign Language, Leslie Charteris
Saturday, March 24, 2007
 Roger Moore is Simon Templar, Collector's Box I
Selected episodes from The Saint TV series starring Roger Moore are now available on DVD in Germany. The first set contains 8 discs, encoded in Region 2 format. The first set was originally released on April 21, 2006 and it has sold well enough to bring out a second set.
Studio: Koch Media Deutschland GmbH - DVD
Running Time: 1170 Minutes
Format: Dolby, HiFi Sound, PAL
Languages: English, German
Region: Region 2
Viewing Format: 4:3
Number of Disks: 8
You can buy the German DVD Set 1 from Amazon.de today.
 Roger Moore is Simon Templar, Collector's Box II
The second set will be released on April 27, 2007. It will contain 16 colour (2 of them never before shown in Germany - with subtitles) and 6 b/w uncut episodes.
As extras the second box set will have the documentaries, "The Saint Steps In... To Television," and "The Saint Steps In... To Colour," as well as an audio commentary for "The Ex-King of Diamonds." The total number of DVD discs in the box is 7.
Studio: Koch Media Deutschland GmbH - DVD
Running Time: 900 Minutes
Format: Dolby, HiFi Sound, PAL
Languages: English, German
Region: Region 2
Viewing Format: 4:3
Number of Disks: 7
Order the German DVD Set 2 from Amazon.de today!
There will only be these two DVD box sets in German, and many thanks to Martin Metzler of SimonTemplar.de for writing the booklets for both sets and informing us of these important foreign language releases.Labels: 2007, DVD, Foreign Language, German, Roger Moore
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Translate This Page
Using Google's new translation service, you can translate this website into a number of different languages. Try it now!
Labels: 2007, Foreign Language, French, German, Google, Italian, Portuguese, Search, Spanish
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
 This month The Saint is avalaible in Spain a seven DVD pack with complete 5th season (plus 2 of 6th season) of the Roger Moore series. Extras: photos and TV trailers. Visit DVDenlard.com for more information and pictures.
Blurb: Suevia Films pondrá a la venta el próximo 25 de septiembre un pack de 7 dvds con 28 capítulos de la mítica serie El Santo protagonizada por Roger Moore . Todos los capítulos contenidos en este pack son de la época en que se emitieron en color.Labels: 2004, DVD, Foreign Language, Roger Moore, Spanish, TV
Saturday, August 21, 2004
The Saint on Dutch TV
Dutch TV channels have been re-running the complete series for a long time and are now up to the 1969 episodes. They are broadcast on these channels at the following times: SBS6 15:30(BST). Then the episode is repeated the following morning on NET5 10:05(BST). These Dutch TV stations are available on the Astra satellite beaming to Europe and they are free to air channelsLabels: 2004, Dutch, Foreign Language, TV
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