Le Saint prend l'affût

Le Saint prend l'affût (English: The Saint Lies in Wait) is a 1966 French comedy crime film. It was directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Jean Marais.^[2] It is an adaptation of a french only SimonTemplar novel Le Saint prend l'affût (1960), credited to Leslie Charteris, but in fact ghostwritten.

Le Saint prend l'affût
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Directed by	Christian-Jaque
Written by	Henri Jeanson (dialogues) Jean Ferry Christian-Jaque Marcel Julian
Based on	Le Saint prend l'affût by Leslie Charteris
Produced by	Intermondia Films, Medusa Produzione
Starring	Jean Marais
Cinematography	Pierre Petit
Music by	Gérard Calvi
Release date	26 October 1966 (1966-10-26) (France)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	1,329,177 admissions (France)[1]

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 (uncredited)

Production

The film was known under the title The Saint Lies in Wait (USA), Il santo prende la mira (Italy), Der Lord mit der MP (West Germany), As Aventuras de o Santo (Portugal).^[3]

During the making of the film, the stunt arranger Gil(bert-Yves) Delamare was killed doubling for Marais.^[4] A doyen of French stunt drivers, Delamare^[5] 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.^[6] The stunt passengers were thrown clear and survived.