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6.1Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Cast
- Val Kilmer as Simon Templar
- Elisabeth Shue as Emma Russell
- Rade Šerbedžija as Ivan Tretiak
- Henry Goodman as Dr. Lev Botvin
- Alun Armstrong as Inspector Teal
- Michael Byrne as Vereshagin
Themes
- berlin, germany
- london, england
- gas
- based on novel or book
- espionage
- politics
- spy
- master thief
- thief
- scientist
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
76,221 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
30%
Metacritic
50/100
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Phillip Noyce
- Screenplay by
- Jonathan Hensleigh Wesley Strick
- Story by
- Jonathan Hensleigh
- Based on
- Simon Templar , by Leslie Charteris
- Produced by
- David Brown Robert Evans William J. Macdonald Mace Neufeld
- Starring
- Val Kilmer Elisabeth Shue Rade Šerbedžija
- Cinematography
- Phil Méheux
- Edited by
- Terry Rawlings
- Music by
- Graeme Revell
- Production companies
- Rysher Entertainment Mace Neufeld Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- April 4, 1997 ( 1997-04-04 )
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Budget
- $90 million
- Box office
- $169.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 415485
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- publication date
- 1997-01-01
- title
- The Saint
- capital cost
- 70000000
- box office
- 118063304
- review score
- 6.2/10
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Article
The Saint is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick, and starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija. The plot of the film revolves around the title character who is a high-tech thief and master of disguise, who becomes the anti-hero while using the moniker of various saints. He paradoxically lives in the underworld of international industrial theft and espionage. The film was a modest financial success with a worldwide box office of $169.4 million, rentals of $28.2 million, and continuous DVD sales.
It is loosely based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint", which ran until 1983. The Saint character has also featured in a series of Hollywood films made between 1938 and 1954, a 1940s radio series starring Vincent Price (and others) as Templar, a popular British television series of the 1960s starring Roger Moore, and a 1970s series starring Ian Ogilvy.