| The Saint | |
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| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
| Screenplay by | |
| Story by | Jonathan Hensleigh |
| Based on | Simon Templar by Leslie Charteris |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Edited by | Terry Rawlings |
| Music by | Graeme Revell |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Russian |
| Budget | $90 million[1] |
| Box office | $169.4 million[1] |
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.[2][1]
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.
- ^ a b c "The Saint - Box Office Data, DVD Sales, Movie News, Cast Information". The Numbers. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
- ^ "The Saint". April 4, 1997 – via IMDb.