Le Saint prend l'affût

Le Saint prend l'affût
Film poster
Directed byChristian-Jaque
Written byHenri Jeanson (dialogues)
Jean Ferry
Christian-Jaque
Marcel Julian
Based onLe Saint prend l'affût
by Leslie Charteris
Produced byIntermondia Films, Medusa Produzione
StarringJean Marais
CinematographyPierre Petit
Music byGérard Calvi
Release date
  • 26 October 1966 (1966-10-26) (France)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office1,329,177 admissions (France)[1]

Le Saint prend l'affût (English: The Saint Lies in Wait) is a 1966 French comedy crime film. It was directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Jean Marais.[2] It is an adaptation of Leslie Charteris's French-only novel Le Saint prend l'affût (1960), featuring his character The Saint.[3]

Cast

Production

The film was known under the title The Saint Lies in Wait (USA), Il santo prende la mira (Italy), Der Lord mit der MP (West Germany), As Aventuras de o Santo (Portugal).[4]

During the making of the film, the stunt arranger Gil(bert-Yves) Delamare was killed doubling for Marais.[5] A doyen of French stunt drivers, Delamare[6] was skidding a Renault Floride S convertible for a twilight scene on a new patch of freeway when its back axle snapped rolling him and his passengers into a barrier. He was mortally injured when he struck his head on the windscreen.[7] The stunt passengers were thrown clear and survived.

References

  1. ^ "Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films". Box Office Story.
  2. ^ Travers, James (2017-07-27). "Review of the film Le Saint prend l'affût (1966)". frenchfilms.org. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  3. ^ Barer, Burl (2003). The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris' Robin Hood of Modern Crime, Simon Templar, 1928-1992. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 136–138. ISBN 978-0-7864-1680-6. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  4. ^ Le Saint prend l'affût at IMDb
  5. ^ "Remembering Gil Delamare". .Westerns...All'Italiana!. 1924-10-14. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  6. ^ Baxter, John (1974). Stunt: the Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men, p. 245.
  7. ^ Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan, vol. 12~25, 1967, p. 33.


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