Dvd Review: 'the Saint: Set 2’

Stories about Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The Saint” (based on his initials), first inspired a series of low-budget RKO programmers in the 1940s starring George Sanders. Templar was voiced by Vincent Price in a radio series running 1949-50, and portrayed by Roger Moore in a British TV series (1962-69). Being transferred to DVD for the first time is the last British attempt (1989), which starred Simon Dutton as the mysterious figure who works his way all over the world looking for evildoers, while he himself is being sought by police. Clad in a Savile Row suit that never gets rumpled, Dutton makes for a charming, never-outwitted hero, and there’s always a dame nearby. In “Wrong Number,” filmed in Paris, Templar is joined by a U.S.