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Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secretive recluse named Amos Klein who writes a popular (and lucrative) series of adventure novels about a manly and suave spy.
The Fiction Makers
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Roger Moore Caron Gardner Sylvia Syms Justine Lord Kenneth J. Warren Philip Locke Tom Clegg Nicholas Smith Roy Hanlon Peter Ashmore Frank Maher Graham Armitage Lila Kaye Anthony Blackshaw Roy Boyd Vincent Harding Richard Franklin Ralph Ball Joe Gibbons Shaun Curry Oswald Laurence David Rendall Richard Davies Ian Kingly
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Simon Templar – Die unsichtbare Region, L'organizzazione ringrazia firmato il Santo, Hermetico – Die unsichtbare Region, Secretaria para un ladrón, Az Angyal elrablása, Stvořitelé snů, 圣徒智破神偷网, Święty - Twórcy fikcji
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Theatrical
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UK
01 Jul 1977
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Germany12
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Germany
01 Jul 1977
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UK
08 Dec 1968
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I do remember going to the theater to watch one of the first movies crafted together from a 2-part television story of "The Man From U.N.C.LE." I had seen the episodes on television as I was an avid fan of the series, so I suppose that my curiosity got the better of me. Although I can't remember the episodes or the film title (they were renamed), I do recall that there were only a few things added to make it different. It was all right, but I never went to see another one.
Now, I've never watched any episodes of "The Saint" with Roger Moore. So, I felt safer with THE FICTION MAKERS today. It did have one major drawback,…
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Oh my gosh, this was so fun! Sylvia Syms was a delight and the dialogue was often quippy and the premise was hilarious nonsense! I love Sir Roger and I love The Saint!
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-Well, why don't you die of shock?
-Well, I just did.
-So, what's holding you up?
-Rigor mortis.
-Try bending.Sylvia Sims is such a dream pairing with Roger Moore. Absolute perfection as she can ably be just as charming, ridiculous, clever, and chaotic as Roger Moore.
Chaos is the game with Roger Moore's version of Simon Templar (the only Simon Templar that matters 'kay). Pure chaos. Sometimes, really dipping into that chaotic evil side tbh.
You love to see it.
This was such a fun clearly-making-fun-of-Man-From-Uncle caper.
And the final 30 seconds were truly one shock after another and I still have both not recovered and have some questions.
Simon Templar asks Sylvia Sims to put those spectacles on,…
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Amos Klein is, simultaneously, one of the world's most famous and least known authors. His spy novels are hugely successful, and all have been turned into blockbuster movies. But nobody knows who the man is. Klein's a recluse, his true identity a closely guarded secret known only to his publisher. Or at least it was until this evening, when someone raided the publisher's office, ransacked the filing cabinets, and found Klein's address.
Fearful of having his cash cow tipped over, the publisher turns to his good friend, Simon Templar (Roger Moore), for assistance. Zooming over to Klein's home, Simon is met by two big surprises: first, that Klein is *gasp* really a woman (Sylvia Syms), and second, that the guys…
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The Saint is in my opinion one of the best shows to ever grace the small screen. There were 118 episodes running from 1962 to 1968 starring the impeccably polite, classy, confident and at times smug Roger Moore. The first 71 episodes were shot in black and white and the rest in color. This was a two-parter that was folded into a film. The same for Vendetta for the Saint. The beginning of the show became iconic - Simon Templar (the Saint's real name) would be with some people and someone would point out that he was The Saint and a halo would appear above his head, a smile on his face and the famous theme music would kick in…
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I've enjoyed some early episodes of The Saint and especially Roger Moore's interpretation of the very suave Simon Templar, but it's clear that by the time this theatrical edit of a TV two-parter rolled around, the goal was more clearly to rip off the James Bond films/low-key audition Moore for that character. The casual misogyny is laid on pretty thick, most of the supporting actors seem bored, and there are major pacing issues.
I do love the idea of a Misery-style premise being applied to a crime caper, especially when the author is so hyper-fanciful and the goal is to trap them in the supervillain stronghold from their novels! I don't think it works in this, though, because the entire…
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James Bond-lite. This 1968 film looked like it might’ve provided a peak inside the potboiler world of high stakes publishing and the anatomy of writing a bestseller. It doesn’t. At all. It’s actually two episodes of the 1960s British TV show, “The Saint,” stuck together and given a theatrical release. It’s a less cinematic Bond, but starring future James Bond, Roger Moore. It features the same sort of menagerie of villians and ingenues as a Bond film, but on a much lower budget.
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"Hermetico - Die unsichtbare Region"
Eine ziemlich abgefahrene Doppelfolge von "The Saint", die als Spielfilm sogar in die Kinos kam. Als es in Deutschland 1977 soweit war, war Roger Moore natürlich schon als James Bond unterwegs. Deswegen durfte er in der deutschen Fassung auch nicht mehr Simon Templar heißen, sondern hörte da auch auf den Namen James. Manchmal möchte man den Verantwortlichen wirklich die Ohren lang ziehen. Nichtsdestotrotz, eine ganz nette und ungewöhnliche Doppelfolge.
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I’m gonna use this space to also review the show The Saint, which originally ran from 1962-1969 and starred Roger Moore.
I don’t have the patience to sit through multiple seasons of most shows, which is why I really prefer movies. The Saint has to be the one exception and also probably the quickest I’ve ever gone through a series. Every episode is so unique and I think that it being so different each time I watch is what has kept me hooked on it. Roger Moore is the definitive Simon Templar. I didn’t care much for him as Bond but this is his character. He literally tried to buy the rights to the original books so that he could…
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Roger is at his debonair best in this silly meta spy story. It's fun seeing him lampooning Spectre a few years before becoming Bond, and he and Sylvia Syms are great fun together. There's a welter of appearances from members of the "hey, it's that guy" school of British character actors too. But it really shows that this is just two TV episodes stitched together, as the narrative boinks back and forth somewhat aimlessly.
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THE FICTION-MAKERS first saw release on television as a two-part color episode of THE SAINT, the ITV series starring Roger Moore as Leslie Charteris’ infamous sleuth. Later released theatrically overseas and into television syndication in the United States, this adaptation of THE SAINT AND THE FICTION-MAKERS, a Charteris novel ghostwritten by Fleming Lee, is a crackling caper yarn that spoofs the James Bond movies. Of course, the irony is that Moore would go on to play Bond beginning with 1973’s LIVE AND LET DIE.
Simon Templar, aka the Saint, is mistaken for Amos Klein, a reclusive author of popular spy novels, and is kidnapped by a madman named Warlock (Kenneth J. Warren), who has recreated Klein’s imaginary universe down to…
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