This is the third Saint movie, based upon a story by Leslie Charteris entitled THE MILLION POUND DAY. George Sanders plays the smoothly charming Saint, has his witty lines and droll manner. The gal in the film this time is Sally Gray, a very lively and smiling English girl (the film is set in London) who later reappeared in another Saint film opposite Hugh Sinclair in 1941 (THE SAINT'S VACATION, see my review). Jonathan Hale could not appear as Inspector Fernack in this film because it was set in England, so his English equivalent is Inspector Claude Teal, played by Gordon McLeod. The chief villain in this film is Bruno Lang, played by Henry Oscar, who later this year appeared in the spectacularly wonderful classic film ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE (1939, see my review), where he played the miser. Henry Oscar was English but he had that ineffable 'foreign look' about him when he played sinister villains, as he does in this SAINT film, and one can believe him capable of anything. The story of this film concerns a corrupt attempt to steal £1 million in freshly printed currency by increasing the currency print run of a foreign embassy. But with much danger to life and limb, the calmly fearless Saint manages to foil this dastardly plan. It is a good Saint film, unlike the next one, THE SAINT'S DOUBLE TROUBLE (1940, see my review), which is absolutely terrible.
Review of The Saint in London
