A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

Louis Hayward
as Simon Templar

Kay Sutton
as Fay Edwards

Sig Ruman
as Hutch Rellin

Jonathan Hale
as Inspector Henry Fernack

Jack Carson
as Red Jenks

Paul Guilfoyle
as Hymie Fanro

Frederick Burton
as William Valcross

Ben Welden
as Boots 'Pappy' Papinoff

Charles Halton
as Vincent Nather

Cliff Bragdon
as Sebastian Lipke
John Chard
I'm such a hero I hardly recognise myself. So it begins, the start of the realisation of Leslie Charteris' literary creation, one Simon Templar, AKA: The Saint. And it's a good start to be sure. Templar here is played by Louis Hayward, all smirky confidence, lithe and deadly, Templar is "hired...