I have fallen completely in love with Roger Moore’s Simon Templar character in The Saint. Actually, he’s Sir Roger Moore these days, bestowed an OBE for his charity work. He’s not my favourite Bond, although Live and Let Die is one of my favourite Bond movies. I also adore him alongside Tony Curtis in The Persuaders. Last night we watched him play a sinister villain in an episode of Alias (ta Sean). I would love to see him play a Bond villain — surely some studio hack must have had the same idea?
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He was also pretty good, and less of a light weight, in this movie in 1979. It’s probably one of my favourite Moore roles. You can also click to this for an early role.
ooh! haven’t seen that one. Looks good!
Glad I could help 🙂
He was also pretty good, and less of a light weight, in this movie in 1979. It’s probably one of my favourite Moore roles. You can also click to this for an early role.
I loved him in Cannonball Run. Or was it Cannonball Run 2?
Surely Sir Roger never sunk so low!
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Jeezus — is there anyone who *wasn’t* in that movie? Even Jackie Chan!
It might have been Chan’s first US role, too!
reckon it might have been — a good 20 years before Rambo “discovered” him
IIRC, he was playing a man suffering from the delusion that he was James Bond 🙂
Moore said in his book about the making of ‘Live and Let Die’ (also my favourite Moore Bond film) that he’d always wanted to play an over-the-top villain a la the Bond films, and he managed to seem convincingly nasty in much of ‘For Your Eyes Only’, so maybe it’ll happen.
hope it happens soon — he’s 80 years old!
IIRC, he was playing a man suffering from the delusion that he was James Bond 🙂
Yup. My favorite part of the movie too, especially since I grew up with Moore’s 007.
My favorite Moore Bond film is THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, though LIVE AND LET DIE is a close second (despite some awkward racial politics and embarrassing jive talk).
and the flared gangsta trousers are awesome!
Moore is my least favourite Bond; the dialogue sank so low! Guess that’s not necesasrily his fault… must admit I haven’t watched any original Saint, but I loved that he was the radio announcer in Val Kilmer’s movie (which is up there as one of my favourite fluffy movies ever!).
The Saint movie with Val Kilmer shat me off something chronic. Val did a good enough job, but Elizabeth Shue’s dipsy cold fusion scientist with all her notes stuffed down her bra on napkins… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more anti-feminist lead female role. But the movie did feature a shit hot Duran Duran song over the closing credits…
Shue was hilarious! I loved Kilmer as – was it Moore? The South African playboy type, anyway; so ridiculous.
yep, that was pretty funny
But the Kilmer film really wasn’t ‘The Saint’ – it was just a random acrion film that happened to have the same name. The character that Kilmer played didn’t really even bear a passing resemblance to any of the incarnations of Simon Templar.
I absolutely loved Roger Moore as The Saint – it’s still one of my favourite TV shows from that era.
yeah, you’re right. But it still shat me.
Roger designed his own outfits when he played Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders. He is the only man in the world who ever looked good in high waisted trousers!
I loved him in the Saint (my time period) and the Persuaders too. I agree not my favourite Bond…Live and Let Die- I think that was my first Bond movie.
I liked Val Kilmer’s The Saint…but it wasn’t a box office hit. Nor was it Moore redone.
Roger ROCKS!