The Saint Strikes Back

The Saint Strikes Back

THE 'SAINT' SWINGS WEST!...to astound you again...in the second of fiction's modern 'Robin Hood' series of mystery and thrills!

193964 min5.8 / 10

A charming 1930s detective adventure where a suave vigilante hero clears a dead man's name while romancing his daughter and outwitting both criminals and corrupt cops.

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.

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