The Saint's Return is a 1953 British crime thriller film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance and Sydney Tafler.
It was produced by Hammer Film Productions in London and released in the United States as The Saint's Girl Friday.
[9] Derek Winnert called it "a very watchable British stab at reviving the series", adding that "with its neat plot and decent sly sense of humour, it is entirely entertaining, if only mildly".
Of the actors, he wrote: "An ideal Hayward is aloofly smooth and suitably chilly in a role he created in the original film", concluding that "there’s a really good true Brit cast to support him".
It was not until 1962 and the TV series The Saint, starring Roger Moore, that the character achieved lasting success beyond the literary world.