Is it just me or is The Saint the cream of that crop. George Sanders brought a very real suave flair to Simon Templar that the others just did not rise to. Yes, Tom Conway came close as The Falcon, (with a close approximation of that continental air, I guess it runs in the family) but lacked the name. Again, maybe its just me, but the ST, Saint, Simon TEMPLAR was really "neat". The modern-day Robin Hood persona, perfect. I don't know why The Falcon was called The Falcon. His name was Lawrence wasn't it? As for Philo Vance. I liked him, but didn't love him. Like The Falcon, he seemed like a Saint copy to me, with even less of that sauve wa fare (I have no idea how to spell that)