--- title: 'The Saint Strikes Back (1939)' type: 'film' director: 'John Farrow' released: '1939-01-01' runtime_minutes: 64 genres: - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-saint-strikes-back-1939' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031890/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Saint Strikes Back (1939) 1939 · 64 min · Crime · United States Part of: The Saint ## Synopsis The Saint Strikes Back is a 1939 American crime film directed by John Farrow. It marks the second cinematic incarnation of the antihero crimefighting character Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". George Sanders replaced Louis Hayward, who had played the Saint in The Saint in New York. The movie was produced by RKO and also featured Wendy Barrie as female gang leader Val Travers. Barrie would appear in two more Saint films, playing different roles each time, though not in the next film in the series, The Saint in London. This was the second of eight films in RKO's film series about The Saint, and the first of five with Sanders in the title role. ## Credits - **Director:** [John Farrow](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-farrow) - **Screenplay:** [Derek Twist](https://cinepixo.com/people/derek-twist), [John Twist](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-twist) - **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-webb) - **Director of Photography:** [Frank Redman](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-redman) ## Cast - [Jerome Cowan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerome-cowan) - [Jonathan Hale](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-hale) as Inspector Fernack - [Russell Hopton](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-hopton) - [Neil Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-hamilton) - [Barry Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-fitzgerald) - [George Sanders](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-sanders) as Simon Templar - [Frank O'Connor](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-o-connor) - [Wendy Barrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendy-barrie) - [Nella Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/nella-walker) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-saint-strikes-back-1939 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7762076); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.