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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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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Officially released March 4, 2009, Editions Montparnasse have collected together eight of the RKO films in a very nice Region-2 DVD set:DVD 1
Le Saint à New York (The Saint in New York). Un film de Ben Holmes with Louis Hayward (1938)
Le Saint contre-attaque (The Saint strikes back). Un film de John Farrow with George Sanders (1939)
DVD2
Le Saint à Londres (The Saint in London). Un film de John Paddy Carstairs with George Sanders (1939)
Simon Templar face au Saint (The Saint’s double trouble). Un film de Jack Hively with George Sanders (1940)
DVD3
Le Saint reprend du service (The Saint takes over). Un film de Jack Hively with George Sanders (1940)
Le Saint à Palm Springs (The Saint in Palm Springs). Un film de Jack Hively with George Sanders (1941)
DVD4
Pas de vacances pour le Saint (The Saint’s vacation). Un film de Leslie Fenton with Hugh Sinclair (1941)
Le Saint face au tigre (The Saint meets the tiger). Un film de Paul L. Stein with Hugh Sinclair (1943) Extras include a 5-min TV interview in French with Leslie Charteris, and a 20-page booklet, Le Robin des Bois des temps modernes, by noted Saint expert Jean-Marc Lofficier.
The set can be ordered from Amazon France. | |
Labels: 2009, Amazon.com, DVD, Jean-Marc Lofficier, RKO
Monday, March 26, 2007
Jean-Marc Lofficier reports:Thanks to the help of Dan Bodenheimer (of www.saint.org) and Ian Dickerson (of www.lesliecharteris.com), the French Saint website has just undergone a massive update:
- Four new pages are now devoted to the French edition of LE SAINT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE which feature all 154 issues and index all the Leslie Charteris et al. stories published therein (with the same information then added to the Bibliography page), with more cover scans to come.
- It turns out that there were FOUR stories published in LSDM not collected in book form: (i) The Noble Sportsman, (ii) Le Saint et les Prospecteurs, a Michel-Tyl adaptation of a NYHT strip, (iii) Amours, Gadgets et Colonel, of which nothing is known at this time, and (iv) The Power Artist, a Fleming Lee collaboration, which was, however, later retranslated in the Livre de Poche Saint on TV collection. In particular, (ii) and (iii) are the first time these stories have come to the attention of Saint fans everywhere!
- It also turns out that the Charteris original The Uncritical Publisher was never translated after all, although there is a 1945 French-Canadian edition of The Saint Intervenes.
- Our Cover Gallery Page 7 now includes additional covers of rare 1950s Saint reprints, the Fayard "Omnibus" volumes, and the Lefrancq reprints of the mid-1990s.
- Finally, fans of French cover artist Bernad will enjoy additional cover scans of the Fayard NERO WOLFE and TOFF series. Labels: 2007, French, Ian Dickerson, Jean-Marc Lofficier
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
 With the upcoming TNT series of The Saint currently in pre-production, I suddenly have a deadline to finish the print version of The Saintly Bible -- The Exhaustive Bibliography of the Immortal Works of Leslie Charteris and his Saint Books.
To that end, I need to quickly get copies of a number of the French Saint Detective Magazines that I am missing from my collection. Please view the last section at the very end of my want list, and let me know if you can offer any assistance. I'm not reposting all the numbers here, as then I'd have to maintain my want list in two places.
Jean-Marc Lofficier has a great site dedicated to the Saint novels in French, and it is sadly missing a detailed section on The Saint Detective Magazine.
UPDATE March 24: Jean-Marc has just added a new section about the magazines, and we've been working together on getting it finished.
I have already scanned eBay and ABE Books for the missing issues, and need your help in finding other sources.
Many thanks for any help you can offer.Labels: 2007, French, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Le Saint, Leslie Charteris
Sunday, September 03, 2006
 Jean-Marc Lofficier had done an incredible job on his website devoted to The Saint in French and has recently updated the site with even more great information.
He has information about The Saint on French Radio and an interesting insight into the details of the English to French Translations.Labels: 2006, French, Jean-Marc Lofficier
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Using Blogger technology I have created The Saint's Blog at www.saint.org/blog to make it easier for multiple people to post news and rumors about The Saint and to allow all the Saint fans to comment on the posts! I think this will certainly be a lot easier to maintain than the manual text editing I have been doing since 1995 -- I apparently was blogging before it was even called blogging!
I will be converting all the news and rumors from 2004, 2005, and 2006 into this new blog format, and the rest of the news from previous years will remain in it's current archive and accessible.
The Saint's Blog Dream Team consists of:Labels: 2006, Burl Barer, DVD, French, Ian Dickerson, Jean-Marc Lofficier, Roger Moore
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