The Saint’s Vacation (1941) + The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)

Hugh Sinclair stars as Simon Templar in this thrilling double feature of The Saint. In The Saint's Vacation, Templar is puzzled by an innocent-looking music box. Surrounding it is a legacy of robbery, torture and murder. As The Saint explores sinister places in the dead of night, he learns the box contains the key to a valuable code sought by ruthless thieves.
When a crook develops a conscience and tries to expose his cohorts, they murder him at Templar's doorstep in The Saint Meets the Tiger. The Saint trails the mystery to a remote English village where small-town manners cover up a hotbed of intrigue and a bloodthirsty band of gold smugglers.

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While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

Director: Leslie Fenton
Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Cecil Parker, Arthur Macrae, Leueen MacGrath, Gordon McLeod, John Warwick, Manning Whiley, Felix Aylmer, Ivor Barnard, Roddy Hughes

The Sant’s Vacation Simon Templar the debonair sleuth known as "The Saint," is hounded by the press for a story as he sets sail for a vacation in Switzerland with his friend, Monty Hayward. Determined to get a story, reporter Mary Langdon trails Simon to the Hotel Regina and corners him in the lobby. There Simon excuses himself to greet Valerie, an old friend, but knows something is amiss when she denies knowing him and furtively sneaks away to meet a man she calls Gregory. Simon watches as Gregory speeds away in his car and is followed by Rudolph Hauser, Simon's old adversary. Simon then proposes that Mary and Monty accompany him on a stroll in the woods, where they witness a man being assaulted. Simon comes to the rescue and takes the injured man to his hotel suite. After finding a locked box in the man's possession, Simon goes into the next room to show it to his companions, and when he returns to his room, he discovers that the man has been stabbed to death. When Hauser and his accomplice Marko appear and reclaim the box at gunpoint, Simon jumps onto the rear bumper of their car and follows them to their headquarters, where he watches as Hauser interrogates Gregory about the box. Simon then steps in to claim the box, calling Mary with instructions to meet him at the St. Gallen crossroad. As Simon speaks into the phone, Hauser grabs the box and disappears through a secret panel. Hauser and Marko drive to the crossroad, where they plan to eliminate Simon, but are surprised when Simon pops out of their trunk and demands the box. Just then, Monty, disguised as a police officer, drives up and, after returning the box to Hauser, pretends to arrest Simon. As they drive away, Simon informs Monty that he emptied the contents of the box, and thus to Monty's chagrin, the troublesome object is still their traveling companion. At the hotel, Simon examines the music box that he removed from Hauser's box and discovers that its playing cylinder punches a peculiar code on a piece of blank paper. When Valerie calls and demands the box, Simon decides to mail it across the border and books passage on the train that carries the mail. Also on board the train are Mary, Monty, Hauser, Marko, Gregory and Valerie. Rudolph and Marko begin to rifle the mail car but are interrupted by Gregory, who is killed in the ensuing shootout. Nevertheless, Rudolph finds the box and when the train stops at the next station, the police, who have been alerted by Hauser, board the train and arrest Simon for the murder of the man found in his hotel room. When Hauser opens the box, he finds a medicine kit and, realizing that Simon has tricked him, abducts Monty and calls Simon in jail to demand the box in exchange for Monty's freedom. Meanwhile, Mary goes to visit Simon in jail and is arrested as his accomplice. Feigning a fire in their cell, the two escape and drive to Hauser's castle. Simon realizes that Hauser is unaware that the box is stowed in Monty's luggage, and offers to tell him the location of the box in return for clearing Simon's name and releasing Monty. Hauser agrees to Simon's terms, and after Mary speeds off to Paris with Monty, Simon informs Hauser that the box is on its way to Paris and threatens to charge Hauser with murder and mail theft unless he is allowed to go free. As Simon returns to London, he is greeted at dockside by the story-hungry press and Inspector Teal, who accompanies Simon, Mary and Monty to headquarters, where Simon turns the box over to Charles Leighton of the war office. As Leighton explains that the notches on the box's music cylinder replicate a plan for a secret sound detection device, Valerie, who was also working for the British government, enters the room and greets Simon

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The last words uttered by by a conscience-stricken crook dying on the Saint's front doorstep leads the detective in pursuit of gold smugglers and the master-crook know as the Tiger.

Director: Paul L. Stein
Cast: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans, Wylie Watson, Dennis Arundell, Charles Victor, Louise Hampton, John Salew, Arthur Hambling, Amy Veness, Claude Bailey, Noel Dainton, Eric Clavering, Ben Williams, John Slater, Tony Quinn, Alf Goddard, Joan Hickson

The Saint Meets the Tiger Late one night in London Simon Templar a debonair private detective known as "The Saint," receives a phone call from a stranger offering him a million pounds in gold. When the man appears on Simon's doorstep, he is stabbed by an unseen assailant, but before dying, the man gasps, "The Tiger, Baycombe and the gold." Simon then calls Inspector Teal of Scotland Yard, a friendly rival, and the dead man is eventually identified as Joe Gallo, a well-known bookie. After Teal reveals that Gallo was involved in a recent bank robbery, Simon suspects that the still-missing loot is the gold that Gallo mentioned, and that he will find the answers in Baycombe. The next morning, Simon and his valet Horace travel to the Cornish village of Baycombe, where they begin searching for "The Tiger," the mysterious leader of the gang of bank robbers. As he meets the townspeople, Simon becomes acquainted with pretty Pat Holmes, who invites him to tea, where he meets banker Lionel Bentley and entrepreneur Bittle. Simon is immediately suspicious of the pair, and as Simon deduces, Bentley and Bittle are in league with The Tiger, who, under the name Tidmarsh, is working in Baycombe as a newspaper reporter. Also present at Pat's gathering is Teal, who poses as a geologist named Professor Kahn. Later, at Simon's rented cottage, one of Bentley's henchmen attempts to shoot him but misses, leading Teal to comment that Simon revealed too much earlier when he intimated to Bentley and Bittle that he knows about their compliticy in the robbery and Gallo's death. Simon insists that the assassination attempt proves that he is on the right track, and then refuses Teal's offer to work together. Soon after, Simon goes to Bentley's home and interrupts as Bentley buys Pat's shares in a defunct gold mine. Simon announces that the banker must have a criminal reason to be buying the worthless mine, and the angry Bentley orders two henchmen to pursue Simon and Pat after they resist his attempts to detain them. Simon sends Pat to his cottage, then returns to Bentley's house, where he discovers a secret passageway to Bentley's office. There, he is captured by Bentley, Bittle and other members of the gang, and accuses them of plotting to plant the stolen gold in the old mine and thereby be able to sell the gold legally. Simon also accuses them of killing Gallo to prevent him from revealing the scheme. Simon throws a knife at Bittle's hand when the criminal tries to shoot him, then is released by Bentley when Tidmarsh telephones and orders them not to kill Simon, but instead get him "out of the way" until they can escape with the gold. Bittle then attempts to get Simon arrested for assault, but the smooth-talking detective pressures Teal into providing an alibi for him. The next day, having learned from Pat that a network of ancient smugglers' caves exists in Baycombe, and that they can be accessed through the local museum, Simon questions Merridew, the curator. Merridew admits his involvement with the gang, but before he can reveal the entrance to the caves, he is killed by a knife thrown by Eddie, one of Bentley's men. Unaware that Eddie has escaped through the secret entrance, Teal, who is in the museum's outer room, arrests Simon for murdering Merridew. Tidmarsh arrives as Teal states that he is taking Simon back to London, and after they leave, calls Bentley with the news that Simon will be off the case. Tidmarsh then orders Bentley to load the gold into a boat anchored near the secret caves, but Bentley, angered by Tidmarsh's arrogance, plots with Bittle to double-cross him. The still unsuspecting Pat then informs Tidmarsh of her plan to sneak aboard Bentley's boat with Horace and retrieve the gold. That night, Bentley and Bittle knock Tidmarsh unconscious before he can join Pat and Horace, who board the boat and begin their search for the loot and the Tiger. Meanwhile, Teal explains to Simon that he arrested him as a ruse to lure the Tiger into a false sense of security, and the pair return to the museum. There, they find the entrance to the smugglers' caves, and Simon sneaks onto the boat. Pat, Horace and Simon eventually find one another, but they are captured by Bentley and Bittle. Tidmarsh arrives onboard soon after, and tells Simon that because he is a worthy opponent, he and his friends can go free. Tidmarsh is determined to kill his double-crossing partners, but Bittle shoots him while he is talking to Simon. Simon then throws a knife at Bittle's hand and succeeds in disarming him. Teal arrives with reinforcements and is informed of Tidmarsh's identity and death, although Simon announces that the police cannot have the gold, as he will be turning it over to the bank's insurance company for a hefty commission. Pat then bestows congratulatory kisses on both Simon and Horace

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