The Saint Meets the Tiger is the title of a crime thriller motion picture produced by RKO Pictures and released in 1943. This was the eighth motion picture based on the adventures of the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter, Simon Templar, a.k.a. The Saint, who had been created by Leslie Charteris in 1928. This film is, in fact, an adaptation of Charteris' first Saint novel, Meet - The Tiger!; it was the third and last full Saint novel adapted by the RKO series.

Hugh Sinclair makes his second (and final) appearance as Templar in this adventure, which sees Templar investigating a dead body left on his doorstep, which leads him to a quiet seaside village where he pursues a mysterious villain known as The Tiger.

Co-starring in the film is Jean Gillie as Templar's love interest, Patricia Holm. Although this character made many appearances in the book series, this is to date the only film in which she appears.

It's actually quite close to the book, with the major difference being that Inspector Teal is included and everybody knows who The Saint is (in the first book he was a mysterious unknown). The quality of the recording is fair, considering the age of the original (which is out of copyright). Don't expect HD!

Bonus: Included on the DVD for your entertainment is The Saint's Double Trouble (RKO 1940). Leslie Charteris described this as 'awful' so be warned. It stars George Sanders as both The Saint and his doppelganger hoodlum. It also stars Bela Lugosi.

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Meet the Tiger aka The Saint Meets the Tiger aka Crooked Gold!

The world met the Tiger in June 1928, in the third novel by Leslie Charteris. The story introduced an athletic 27-year old, Simon Templar, who lived in a converted Devon pill-box with his manservant Orace.
Partly because of his initials, he had acquired the nickname Saint some eight years earlier, although we have never known how.
Simon meets a local Ward of Court, Patricia Holm, and falls in love.
He later meets the eponymous Tiger and also Detective Inspector Carn, who is on the trail of a missing million dollars. Needless to say, the Saint beards the Tiger in his den and appropriates the loot.
Published by Ward, Lock, in green cloth (1st edn lists previous books as X Esquire & White Rider), a condensed version appeared in The Sunday Dispatch (London) titled Scoundrels Ltd. The first US publication was by The Crime Club (who were to become the first US publishers for most of his work) in 1929. The Sun Dial Press changed the title to Meet - The Tiger! The Saint is in Danger in 1940 but Bond-Charteris Enterprises gave it the final retitling in 1945 as The Saint Meets the Tiger. In July 1962 Digit Paperbacks in the UK kept to this. The Saint had become so well-known that most of the original books were later retitled to include his sobriquet. In 1929 the Amalgamated Press printed an anonymous story titled Crooked Gold as a fourpenny Boys’ Friend Library. It was actually an abridged rip-off of Meet the Tiger, but Leslie didn’t find out about it until many years later. This comic is now very sought-after (I’ve seen it advertised at £300), as indeed is Meet the Tiger generally.