The Saint isn't unforgivable, but it definitely falls short of being satisfying entertainment.

A generic suspenser that doesn't taste bad at first bite but becomes increasingly hard to swallow.

There's no lack of style or pace from Noyce, just the sense that it isn't quite gelling together.

This Simon Templar has so little to do with the original character that he might as well have been loosely based on Tom Joad, Uriah Heep, Jean Valjean, or any other literary creation of the past several thousand years.