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  Auction History Result SAINT TAKES OVER LC Date Sold 4/1/1998Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 5 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (Learn More) The Saint Takes Over, the 1940 Jack Hively detective crime mystery thriller ("Featuring 'The Saint' created by Leslie Charteris"; in this entry, The Saint's police inspector friend is framed by five gangster kingpins; The Saint wants to clear him, but one by one, the gangsters are murdered, and he must help his friend before the last one dies) starring George Sanders (in the title role as Simon Templar/The Saint), Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway, and Roland Drew. Note that this was the fourth of the "Saint" movies made by RKO, based on Leslie Charteris' classic character, The Saint (the first of these was in 1938, The Saint in New York, where Louis Hayward played the title role, and then George Sanders took over). However, Charteris often disagreed with any story changes made by RKO and with Sanders' interpretation of his character. Because of this (and to save on royalty fees), the 1941 film "The Saint in Palm Springs" was the last of the series produced by RKO. Instead, they made "The Gay Falcon", which obviously starred the exact same character, but with the name changed (and there were many more in that series). Mr. Charteris threatened to sue RKO over this but the matter was settled out-of-court, and in 1953, RKO handled U.S. distribution for the English film "The Saint's Return" (also known as "The Saint's Girl Friday"), which starred Louis Hayward, who had played The Saint in the first RKO movie! George Sanders starred in four movies as The Falcon. After the fourth movie, the role of The Falcon was passed from George Sanders (who apparently had tired of this role, and wanted to leave) to Tom Conway (they played brothers in a movie called "The Falcon's Brother", and in real life they were brothers!; it had George Sanders' character killed, and his brother, played by Tom Conway, shows up and solves his murder, and becomes the "new" Falcon; and Conway went on to make a total of twelve Falcon movies). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: No condition recorded. 
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