Le Saint prend l'affût
Le Saint prend l'affût is a 1966 French comedy crime film. It was directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Jean Marais. It is an adaptation of a french only SimonTemplar novel Le Saint prend l'affût, credited to Leslie Charteris, but in fact ghostwritten.
Cast
- Jean Marais as Simon Templar
- Jess Hahn as Hoppy Uniatz
- Jean Yanne as Mueller-Strasse
- Danièle Évenou as Sophie Chartier
- Raffaella Carrà as Mrs Anita Pavone
- Tiberio Murgia as Tonio Cotone
- Henri Virlogeux as Oscar Chartier
- Claudio Gora as Cesare Pavone
- Nerio Bernardi
- Darío Moreno
- Maria Brockerhoff as Monica
- Roger Carel as The professor
- Reinhard Kolldehoff as Schmutz
- Carlo Pisacane as Agatino Camaleonte
- Siegfried Rauch as Johnny K.W. Mest
- Katia Christine as Mary
Production
The film was known under the title The Saint Lies in Wait, Il santo prende la mira, Der Lord mit der MP, As Aventuras de o Santo.During the making of the film, the stunt arranger Gil Delamare was killed doubling for Marais. A doyen of French stunt drivers, Delamare was skidding a Renault Floride S convertible for a twilight scene on a new patch of freeway when its back axle snapped rolling him and his passengers into a barrier. He was mortally injured when he struck his head on the windscreen. The stunt passengers were thrown clear and survived.