A revolutionary new textile formula gets stolen and the developer's daughter asks Simon for help.A revolutionary new textile formula gets stolen and the developer's daughter asks Simon for help.A revolutionary new textile formula gets stolen and the developer's daughter asks Simon for help.
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Ed Bishop
- Cy Imberline
- (as Edward Bishop)
Billy Dean
- Fingerprint Man
- (uncredited)
Michael Dempsey
- Man in Hotel Bar
- (uncredited)
Ian Fleming
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Vincent Harding
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Alan Meacham
- Man in Hotel Bar
- (uncredited)
John Wilder
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn a 2023 interview for 'Infinity' magazine, Annette Andre described her experience of being on this show. She recounted how surprised she was that so many scenes had to be shot in one take due to the time pressures involved and that she described the director as being verbally abusive to her. She said she was so upset that Roger Moore took her to one side, held her hand and said "He's not a nice man is he! But don't worry, you'll be fine". She said that Moore was a "charming man" and really helped her get through her scenes. Despite her initial bad experience she was surprised when she was offered parts in other episodes during the series run and appeared in four more stories after this one.
- SoundtracksOut to Get You
by Chris Andrews
Featured review
The series at its best
Though a long time fan of this series, I'm sometimes disappointed at the lack of imagination with which Leslie Charteris's novels and stories were adapted and developed, the version of THE MIRACLE TEA PARTY I saw recently being a case in point (see review). On the other hand this is an excellent adaptation of a book originally set in the U.S in wartime. It was no surprise to see it was the work of John Kruse, whose scripts even managed to evoke the warm admiration of the famously hard to please Charteris. It starts with a piece of self mockery, the like of which was often to be found in the books, but rarely on TV, with two characters at the hotel bar espying the Saint and wryly predicting he will be approached by some damsel in distress, seconds before he actually is. Apart from the welcome touches of humour, Kruse has fashioned an intelligent plot that never flags for an instant; you can really never guess what's going to happen next, or who is the villain behind it all, or what is his purpose. It is rare for a plot in a series such as this to be as implicitly critical of big business and capitalism, though both Kruse in HELL DRIVERS and Charteris in some of his 1930s stories had been so before. A strong cast includes Geoffrey Keen in a typically incisive and authoritative performance, Peter Vaughan at his most menacing, as well as the glamorous Justine Lord, who gained a lot of male fans in the 1960s and early 1970s, but then disappeared from the screen. Fun too, to see Michael Robbins of On the Buses fame as a gun-toting thug.
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- wilvram
- Dec 7, 2012
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- Runtime49 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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