Return of the Saint (TV Series)

The Village That Sold Its Soul (1978)

Ian Ogilvy: Simon Templar

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Simon Templar : [narrating]  There are places in these mountains where time seems to have stopped in the 16th century. Remote valleys where you feel the Medicis and the Borgias still rule.

• Simon Templar : [the Saint walks into a bar]  A beer.

  Moreno : We're closed, signore.

  Simon Templar : [glances around, there are several other customers enjoying their drinks]  I'll have it in a glass.

  [Moreno complies] 

  Simon Templar : I'll need a room, too.

  Moreno : Unfortunately, all the rooms are occupied.

  Simon Templar : Oh, really?

  Moreno : American tourists. A coach party.

  Simon Templar : A coach party. Well, well. I'll, eh, I'll drink this outside.

  [moves to the door] 

  Simon Templar : Have my bags taken upstairs, would you?

• Prince Lorenzo : I have been speaking with Boldini on the telephone. He tells me that an attempt was made on your own life.

  Simon Templar : Well, it was a warning, really, rather a crude one at that.

  Prince Lorenzo : Ah, heh heh, these people are crude. Crude and violent pea...

• Boldini : [the Saint is in jail]  You know, Signor Templar, you will live forever in the memory of our simple people as a mass murderer.

  [laughs] 

  Boldini : Doesn't that thought comfort you?

  Simon Templar : Listen, I'd take a lot more comfort if I could have a drink.

  Boldini : [looks at his own filled glass]  Ah, against regulations.

  [laughs] 

  Simon Templar : Yes, but, eh, I'm prepared to pay over bar prices.

  [holds up a wad of money] 

  Boldini : You seem to forget, that money will be mine anyway when you're dead.

  Simon Templar : Yeah, I suppose that's true. But, eh... travelers checks. Now they have to be counter signed.

  Boldini : [leans forward]  How much have you got there?

• Sophia Castracane : The farce is over, father!

  Simon Templar : And you're the clown, Guzzi.

• [last lines] 

  Simon Templar : It's not as picturesque as this, I know, but on the whole I think I prefer the 20th century to the 16th.