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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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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has been showing some really great detective movies every Tuesday and Wednesday this month in their 53 movie celebration called, Watching The Detectives. The movies have included, The Saint with George Sanders, The Thin Man, Dick Tracy, The Lone Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, and Philip Marlowe. This week they are showing a number of Boston Blackie films, as well as Chinatown, and the James Garner Marlowe from 1969. This collection of whodunits follows Van Dine’s rules in highly suspenseful and entertaining fashion. Our Detective All-Stars include Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946) — both given definitive readings by Humphrey Bogart in his best wry, burned-out style. We present four films each devoted to The Lone Wolf (all TCM premieres), Sherlock Holmes, Dick Tracy, Nancy Drew, The Saint and The Falcon — plus the TCM debut of no less than eight Boston Blackie mysteries! Among our Police Detectives are Lt. Vincent Hanna, played by Al Pacino in Heat (TCM premiere, 1995), which also stars Robert De Niro as his nemesis, a master thief who calls himself “double the worst trouble you’ve ever seen.” Perhaps the most famous of all Society Sleuths are Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) in The Thin Man (1934), which took its title not from Powell’s character but from that of Edward Ellis, who plays the murder victim.
Amateur Detectives include the elderly British spinster Miss Jane Marple, played for the first time by the indomitably droll Margaret Rutherford in Murder She Said (1961). The actress has become so closely associated with the role that it is sometimes forgotten that the Miss Marple of the Agatha Christie novels is quite a different character — far less funny and eccentric than the jut-jawed Rutherford. Photo GalleryLabels: 2007, Gentleman Thief, George Sanders, TCM
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
 This evening Turner Classic Movies is showing a number of The Lone Wolf movies, starring Warren William. One of the classics being shown is The Lone Wolf Strikes from 1940. These movies are based on a series of books by Louis Joseph Vance, and some have said that they were in part an inspiration to Leslie Charteris for his Saint books. Vance's books feature Michael Lanyard, alias The Lone Wolf, as a charming gentleman rogue who was trained to be a jewel thief by a mysterious Irishman named Bourke. As with The Saint, The Lone Wolf also has a weakness for robbing from the rich and giving to the damsel in distress, all the while keeping a percentage to maintain his fine lifestyle.
Another interesting tie-in between The Lone Wolf and The Saint is that Louis Hayward played The Lone Wolf in seven TV episodes between 1954 and 1955, just one year after he starred as Simon Templar in The Saint's Girl Friday aka The Saint's Return (RKO 1953). Louis Hayward also played the title role in The Saint In New York (RKO 1938)
 The Lone Wolf TV show is currently playing on GoodLife TV, with the next show airing Saturday, March 10 at 3:30AM.
The Lone Wolf is an important part of the Gentleman Thief genre, and for further information about The Lone Wolf, visit Thrilling Detective or read the novel, Alias The Lone Wolf, online for free from Project Gutenburg.
The Lone Wolf books by Louis Joseph Vance:
- The Lone Wolf (1914)
- The False Faces (1918)
- Alias The Lone Wolf (1921)
- Red Maquerade (1921)
- The Lone Wolf Returns (1923)
- The Lone Wolf's Son (1931)
- Encore The Lone Wolf (1933)
- The Lone Wolf's Last Prowl (1934)
Labels: 2007, Gentleman Thief, Leslie Charteris, Louis Hayward, Return of The Saint
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Turner Classic Movies is showing Raffles on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 1:30pm (EST). Raffles is a gentleman thief played by David Niven, and is based on the books by E.W. Hornung (who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law). If you like The Saint, you'll be sure to enjoy watching David Niven in a very Saint-like role as A.J. Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman.Labels: 2007, Gentleman Thief, Raffles
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