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Region 0 - NTSC

1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
• 5 movies on 2 discs

DVD Release Date: June 21, 2011

George Sanders made only five feature films playing lovable rouge Simon Templar known around the world as The Saint. He was not the first to play The Saint on the big screen (that honor goes to Louis Hayward in The Saint in New York), nor the most prolific (Roger Moore stared in British TV series with 118 episodes over 6 years), nor the most recent (Val Kilmer was seen in a Russia-set misfire from 1997), but this character fit Sanders like a glove and these highly enjoyable and fast paced films. Jonathan Hale reprises his role from The Saint in New York as Inspector Henry Fernack in three of these films and Wendy Barrie can be seen as three different characters in three of them; she would continue good rapport with Sanders in the first two Falcon pictures).

All five pictures were previously available in various boxed sets in Finland, Spain and France and the last three are available separately in UK, but we could not obtain these discs for comparison. The George Sanders Saint Movies Collection debuts in region 1 as a dual-layered 2-disc set from made-on-demand Warner Archive Collection. The films are not advertised as remastered and the first two pictures that share the first disc are problematic with some damaged frames, some marks and specs. The quality improved greatly once we move to the second disc with the last three pictures. There are still some marks and specs, but fewer and far between. The mono soundtrack is decent for all pictures, but per usual standard, there are no subtitles available. Unfortunately, there are no extras, not even a trailer, but still, we can recommend this release. Warner Archive also recently released Sanders' next series - The Falcon. Hopefully the Saint wasn't abandoned and we will see another volume collecting The Saint pictures with other actors.

  -Gregory Meshman

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