Saint, The
Date: 1997
Director: Phillip Noyce
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment, Mace Neufeld Productions
Stars: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Valery Nikolaev, Rade Serbedziya, Alun Armstrong, Charlotte Cornwall
Location(s): Kent, London, Oxfordshire (UK), Moscow (Russia)
Region(s): London R-S, Rest Of The World, South East R-Z, South West
Storyline:
Simon Templar steals a cold fusion formaula and then wishes he hadn’t as he becomes involved both romantically and with the Russian mafia. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
Kilmer's orphan home, where he hones his skills. Wyfold Court, a grade II listed French Gothic mansion in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire. Once also a hospital, now apartments.
- Capture 2
- 21 May 2016
Serbedziya arrives at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. The real Foreign Affairs Ministry is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers dating from the late 1940s and 1950s which stands on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Place in Moscow, but . . . . . .
. . . . . . this is the entrance to the Hotel Ukraina, now the Radisson Royal Hotel, on Kutuzovsky Prospect, another of the Stalinist skyscrapers. (PW)
- Capture 3
- 21 May 2016
This is a reverse point of view from the outside the Hotel Ukraina and in the distance stands The White House on the left and the Bank of Moscow to the right.
The view is similar but taken from a slightly different location as the hotel's multi storey car park now stands in the way of an accurate comparison. (PW)
- Capture 4
- 'Now' required
An interior. Freemason's Hall, 60 Great Queen Street, WC2.
- Capture 5
- 'Now' required
Another interior, this time the Drapers' Hall, Throgmorton Street, EC2.
- Capture 6
- 'Now' required
Kilmer in disguise in Moscow.
- Capture 7
- 21 May 2016
PW identifies this as the Church of the Theotokos of Kazan next to the huge GUM department store in Red Square, Moscow 3.
The original 300 year old church, also known as Kazan Cathedral or Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, was knocked down in 1936 and the current building is a reconstruction built between 1990 and 1993. (PW)
- Capture 8
- 21 May 2016
Moscow's Red Square.
Confirmed as Red Square by Phil Wilkinson, this view has the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed or Pokrovsky Cathedral, often referred to as St. Basil's Cathedral, in the left distance and the the Moscow Kremlin on the right.
- Capture 9
- 19 Oct 2014
Kilmer arrives at his hideout in 81 Holland Park, W11, once the Halcyon Hotel.
Taken when it was still a hotel. SJ
- Capture 10
- 21 Jan 2015
Berlin airport, in fact Westminster School gym, at the time belonging to the RHS, in London, SW1.
As it looks now. SJ
- Capture 11
- 21 Jan 2015
A close-up showing the stars on site.
Taken after dusk. This interior was also seen in Children of Men, Pink Floyd The Wall, Richard III, Piccadilly Jim and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as London Movie Guide will tell one. SJ
- Capture 12
- 04 Aug 2015
Shue at the Shelley Memorial, University College, High Street, Oxford.
Now, after a little renovation. SJ
- Capture 13
- 04 Aug 2015
Kilmer watches Shue admire the sculpture.
The bench has gone. SJ
- Capture 14
- 19 Oct 2014
Godstow Bridge and The Trout Inn, 195 Godstow Rd., Lower Wolvercote near Oxford.
Not straightforward to achieve this angle. SJ
- Capture 15
- 'Now' required
An interior as Kilmer and Shue dine. Couldn't find this inside The Trout Inn.
- Capture 16
- 19 Oct 2014
Shue somewhere in Oxford.
Spotted by Jonathan B-P who showed me the spot on St John Street, Oxford.
- Capture 17
- 19 Oct 2014
Shue tends to Kilmer who's faking a wound.
Nice bike. SJ
- Capture 18
- 'Now' required
- Capture 19
- 11 Aug 2023
A rear entrance to the hotel but this is not the back of Holland Park but in SW1.

Montrose Place looking north-west to Halkin Street. Also seen from the other direction in "I'll Never Forget What's 'isname." SJ
- Capture 20
- 'Now' required
Escaping from Vilmer's hideout.
- Capture 21
- 19 Oct 2014
Another establishing shot, Broadway SW1.
Now. SJ
- Capture 22
- 'Now' required
An interior with ornate detail around the clock.
- Capture 23
- 'Now' required
Kilmer and Shue keeping a low profile.
- Capture 24
- 'Now' required
Moscow Leningradsky railway terminal, Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow. (SR)
- Capture 25
- 21 May 2016
Kilmer and Shue hide from Nikolaev. Looking north along the Vodootvodny Canal with Sadovnicheskaya Naberezhnaya to the right.
A similar view taken from Zverev Most in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow. (PW)
- Capture 26
- 21 May 2016
Nikolaev senses a presence but Shue is submerged in the ice and Kilmer in the freezing canal.
The weather's better but the view isn't. Looking across at the east side of the Vodootvodny Canal from Ozerkovskaya Naberezhnaya. (PW)
- Capture 27
- 21 May 2016
This is Zverev Bridge crossing Vodootvodny Canal.
From a similar viewpoint. The footbridge links the Zamoskvorechye district with Bolotny Island. (PW)
- Capture 28
- 21 May 2016
A close-up of the building in which they take refuge after freezing in the canal.
Sadovnicheskaya Embankment. As with many other areas in Moscow, redevelopment is taking place and the building has been demolished. (PW)
- Capture 29
- 19 Oct 2014
Amherst Tunnels in Chatham, Kent.
Not the same place but taken from the entrance. SJ
- Capture 30
- 'Now' required
This'll take some finding in the English countryside.
- Capture 31
- 04 Aug 2015
Now back in Oxford with Shue about to give her lecture on cold fusion.
Shue is striding into Radcliffe Square from the Bodleian Library. And thank you to my red-fleeced guide and chauffeur Jonathan B-P casually caught in shot. SJ
- Capture 32
- 04 Aug 2015
She enters Radcliffe Square, but seems to be turning back whence she came.
The Radcliffe Camera as seen from the Bodleian Library. SJ
- Capture 33
- 'Now' required
Kilmer and Armstrong look forward to the lecture in the Speech Room of Harrow School.
- Capture 34
- 04 Aug 2015
The police look for Kilmer in vain, Oxford. Catte Street, which also appears in ‘Sebastian’, ‘Another Country’ and ‘Incense for the Damned’.
This is looking north on Catte Street with Radcliffe Square behind me. SJ

