#the elusive ellshaw
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The Saint: The Elusive Ellshaw (2.5, ITC, 1963)
"Well, there's nobody here."
"Yes; you wait here, I'll go round the back, see if I can get in a window."
"Simon, do you think you should?"
"Well, I am trying to break the habit."
#the saint#the elusive ellshaw#leslie charteris#1963#itc#harry w. junkin#john llewellyn moxey#roger moore#angela browne#richard vernon#ellen mcintosh#philip latham#anthony bate#walter brown#philip bond#norman pitt#arthur hewlett#james ottaway#nicholas pennell#a solid murder mystery episode (Simon even assembles the suspects in the drawing room!) finds the Saint (at first anyway) unusually#disinterested in the case (he blames loneliness for a woman's story about being followed. egg on his face when she gets murdered! actually#as an aside‚ that onscreen murder of a woman is fairly unusual for early 60s tv; the Avengers generally steered clear of showing that kind#of violence). then it's off to the country and a shooting party hosted by Richard Vernon's aged patriarch (actually Vernon was only 9 years#older than screen son Philip Bond). the excellent guest cast elevates this one (Anthony Bates!) but it is a little let down both by Simon's#casual misogyny in the first act and by some awkward class politics in the second (of course the working class northern member of the#shooting party is an uncouth‚ sneering dick; of course the old money upper class family are really Quite Nice Actually and Ever So Kind)#we also get our third and final Insp. Teal before the big one; Norman Pitt is I'm afraid to say very much the weakest of the three one shot#Teals‚ getting very little to do and a poorly developed character. he does appear tho to be chewing gum in one scene‚ a surprisingly#faithful nod to the book Teal (a perpetual gum chewer) which the other actors didn’t perform#iirc Dean substituted peppermints for chewing gum; personal preference or acknowledgement that gum was now had youth associations by 1963?
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