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The Saint Meets the Tiger is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie and Clifford Evans. It was made by the British unit of RKO Pictures and released the same year, but was not distributed until 1943 in America.
The Saint Meets the Tiger: Directed by Paul L. Stein. With Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans. The last words uttered by by a conscience-stricken crook dying on the Saint's doorstep lead the detective in pursuit of gold smugglers and the master crook known as the Tiger.
- (605)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Paul L. Stein
- 1943-07-29
In this outing, Templar uncovers a band of gold smugglers after a dead body turns up on his doorstep. Although The Saint Meets the Tiger was the last film in RKO's initial series, it was adapted from the first Saint novel, Meet the Tiger. It was also the only film in the series to feature Pat Holm (Jean Gillie), the girlfriend from Charteris ...
- Paul Stein
- Hugh Sinclair
Private detective Simon Templar (Hugh Sinclair), aka the Saint, gets a visit from a dying man who passes on a mysterious tip about a gold-smuggling scheme that leads the investigator to a...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- Paul Stein
Meet the Tiger is an action-adventure novel written by Leslie Charteris. In England it was first published by Ward Lock in September 1928; in the United States it was first published by Doubleday 's The Crime Club imprint in March 1929 with the variant title Meet – the Tiger!.
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
