“THE SAINT IN NEW YORK”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4

“THE SAINT IN NEW YORK”

| The immunity of racketeer j • | barons from punishment, and the | | helplessness of the police in deal- | | ing with them by legal methods, ! ! forms the background of RKO j | Radio's dramatic thriller, "The j | Saint in New York.” By bribery, | j intimidation and the tactics of ? f their lawyers, the racketeers ! [ laugh at the law. But in the pic- i | ture this laughter changes to ter- j | ror when a civic leader, wearied | | of the situation, ’secretly calls I I "The Saint” to mend matters. This I { elusive adventurer, who ha? dedi- | | cated his life to fighting crime by j i his own lawless but efficient j 1 methods sets about wiping out the S ) I city’s six most prominent gang- | | sters. one by one. Battling the j | frightened crooks on the one hand j x and the police, who are not aware I J of his sponsorship. •on the other, f | he soon finds himself in difficulties. j j The results make "The Saint in ? | New York” a brand new type of ! | crime-adventure melodrama. Louis I | Hayward has the role of "The j | Saint,” with Kay Sutton as the | i girl, and a cast of noted character | | players that includes Sig Ru- j I mann, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan | | Hale, Frederic Burton. Ben Wei- j | don and Cliff Bragdon. Ben ! i Holmes directed the production by I 1 William Sistrom. j