29th June 2009: The Saintly Mr Baker
Before he ever met the Saint producer Robert S. Baker
(and his partner Monty Berman) had a busy career making 'B' movies such as The Hellfire Club. Now VCI Entertainment in the US have released a couple of their early films on DVD. Blackout, directed by Robert S. Baker, can be found on British Cinema Crime & Noir and The Siege of Sidney Street can be found on the British Cinema Classic 'B' Film Collection volume 1. Both DVD sets are all region but are in NTSC. All these films have been digitally restored and look absolutely splendid; this is exactly how these films should be presented, in a wonderful collection that you can watch for hours...
Bill Krzastek has written to tell us that his car, ST1--one of the original Volvo P1800s that was used in the original TV series-- has been selected to be part of the Antique Automoble Club of America's (AACA) exhibit "The Sportscar in America". This exhibition is being held in the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA and will begin on May 22 and last until October 12. The AACA Museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. 22nd May 2009: The Hindenburg
As you may know Leslie Charteris was on the maiden crossing of the Hindenburg and Dan Grossman celebrates the maiden flight on his splendid web site. He's also gone on to create The Pauline Charteris Cocktail which is making us thirsty just reading about it...
7th April 2009: A Saintly Tattoo
Whilst browsing the internet researching something that had nothing whatsoever to do with Mr Templar we cam across this which we thought was kind of funky. And then after a bit of research we discovered that the tattoos were done to commemorate this chap, which seems like a lovely idea.
You can read more about Jimmy Zerda here.
7th April 2009: Who likes The Saint...?
Favorable reviews for the Editions Montparnasse release of the RKO films can be found around the web. 20minutes.fr seem to like them, as do dvdfr.com.
10th February 2009: The RKO movies on region 2 DVD...
Officially released March 4th. Editions Montparnasse have collected together eight of the RKO films (Le Saint à New York, Le Saint contre-attaque, Le Saint à Londres, Simon Templar face au Saint, Le Saint reprend du service, Le Saint à Palm Springs, Pas de vacances pour le Saint and Le Saint face au Tigre ); extras include an interview with Leslie Charteris and a booklet
Le Robin des Bois des temps modernes
by noted Saint expert Jean-Marc Lofficier.
The set can be pre-ordered from Editions Montparnasse.
The latest edition of Ruedas Clasicas, an Argentian classic car magazine, features an article by Sergio Goldvarg on the Saint's P1800s Volvo. Click on the link and the insert for No. 12 to find it but be warned, it opens up a pdf document and the article is in Spanish...
1st February 2009: The Comic Strip Saint
We're currently working with Millenial Concepts on putting together a collection of the Saint comic strips that were published by the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate for many years starting from the late 1940s.
The first collection, which should be out later this year, will feature the first batch of stories--dating from 1948 and 1949--plus, hopefully, one or two extras.
In tandem with Transfuzion publishing, Millennial Concepts has put out several graphic novels over the last few months, including a TPB collection of the classic Sherlock Holmes comics strip.
January 14th, 2009: Win The Best of the Saint
Shots, "The Crime and Thriller Ezine", are offering readers the chance to win a set of Hodder & Stoughton's new Saint anthologies. Details here.