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| Ian Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 |
When television shows becomes theatrical features, it's usually a cheat like in the case of THE SAINT two-part episode VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT, which, pieced together, becomes a 90-minute movie...
Although herein, there is a kind of theatrical touch, for two reasons: villain Ian Hendry, as a mobster who was once someone else and now goes by a fake name while working as an aging/dying mob boss's sophisticated, falsely-related henchman, is always great on both the big (GET CARTER) and small (THE AVENGERS to THE SWEENEY) screen...
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| Roger Moore and Aimi MacDonald in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
But it's director Jim O'Connelly, mostly known for bringing Ray Harryhausen's dinosaurs to life in the novelty science-fiction western VALLEY OF GWANGI... before creating terrifically fast-paced theatrical noirish crime programmers THE TRAITORS, THE HI-JACKERS and SMOKESCREEN...
Moving Roger Moore along just the same in his career-making series that's otherwise mostly expository dialogue, here more action-oriented from beginning to end, getting in and out of trouble ranging from old antique dungeons to car chases and gun-play while protecting Hendry's gorgeously vulnerable pseudo-niece Rosemary Dexter and reluctant blonde mob moll Aimi MacDonald as, just as he would as 007, Moore's always perfect when traipsing around unexpected bulwarks at every turn.
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| Ian Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Rosemary Dexter and Roger Moore in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Roger Moore in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Ian Hendry in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Ian Hendry and Aimi MacDonald in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Roger Moore in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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| Roger Moore in VENDETTA FOR THE SAINT |
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