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April twenty ninth of nineteen fifty one is today's episode of The Saint Fish's Gotta
Eat The Adventures of the Saint, starting Vincent Price. The Saint based on
characters created by Leslie Trotters and known to millions from books, magazines, and
motion pictures. The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes transcribe to radio,
starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor of Vincent Price as the saint. I don't
like it around here. We go to the waterfront. What's the matter with
it? Oh, I don't know. I get the jittis. Do you
think too much? Listen? After we pick up the step in Sparrow,
you can retire than flor Yeah, yeah, once I didn't like it.
All right, I'd say you can retire someplace else? Is it the ship
up ahead? A beaver, I'm the right pier. Yeah, that's the
expert. Yeah. There's no lights on it, but there's a board except
Sparron. I'll be glad to see him. You need to grand on the
hoof pretty go. It's a matter. Somebody's on deck. It's not Sparrow.
All relax. It's an old man, a night watchman. Oh well,
they gotta have a night watchman around. I don't know. You think
somebody might swipe a ship? Hey you what's your order out here? We're
coming aboard. We got an appointment. Hey, come on appointment of wool.
What's your pop gunn away? Sparrow is expecting us st Yeah, one
of the crew. You heard of him, didn't you? Yeah, heard
a lot about him. I'll come. He jumped boats. Thank you,
said Collins. The jump boat Pop Galveston. The crew was so good about
it. Sparrow the acting funny ever since the boat pulled out of Absterdam.
Come Galveston. Goodbye missus spatter, that's fine, goodbye to our sta.
You have something belonging to you. No where where friends is. We just
wanted to get in touch with him. Where you sure come to the wrong
place. You could be putting on an act. You're on the ship.
Go ahead and look for him, remember mind, Come on, Collins,
come on, are we gonna wait? This is one place Sparrow wouldn't ever
show up. They didn't left the show sooner or later. And when he
does, let's get out of here. Salon pop salon. Yeah, they
left, Sparrow. I guess they believe you are he sure did. I
offered to let him search the ship. They was too sparse. Figured if
you was really on board, I wouldn't have offered, so they went away.
Thanks listen, Yeah, he's a fiber. Why do you want to
dup them so bad? Oh? I told you, you know, I
told them some money. I ain't got it. Hey take the five hour.
That isn't the way they told us what isn't the way you owe them
a few bucks? In the way they figured it, it was fifty thousand.
You're crazy in stones, they said, where are they? Mister Sparrell,
I said, you're crazy. You can see it again if it makes
you feel any better. I think maybe I'll take a look away from the
back. But mister Sparrow, I've got a gun. I'm a warrior.
Better keep clear of me. What a fool? What good a fifty thousand
dead break? You on a fool? Wash out? No? Apparently,
Yes, I was just about to curl up in front of the fire with
a bottle of shut iron, sleep and sleep. Well, maybe I don't
need tablets to soothe my nerves. Come in, Thank you, mister Champter.
My name is Susan Sparrow. Yeah, it sounds very demure, are
you? Isn't that the kind of thing you should find out for yourself,
Miss Sparrow or missus missus and I could always ask your husband if you can
find him. I can't. That's why I've come to you. Oh,
I see somebody lost him. Well. He was supposed to have reached New
York three days ago, the steamship x Brook. Oh he was a passenger,
no one of the crew. He hasn't come home. Mister Templer,
you waited three days before doing anything about it. Well, of course,
because we live in Cleveland. Oh, which means you'd have allowed him a
day to get there, a day's wait before you got alarmed, and a
day for you to come here. All right. Can you think of any
reason why he wouldn't have come to Cleveland, can you? Well? Of
course he may not feel the same way I do about about Cleveland. You've
got in touch with the ship's captain. No, you see, Frank,
my husband didn't want anyone to know he was married. He shy. I
don't know. Well, he's sort of mysterious about things. I see when
you find him for me, mister Templer, I'm afraid something may have happened
to him, something terrible. I'll do what I can. That means you'll
find him very pretty vote of confidence, it's more than a vote. You're
a life save so silent, Well, thank you. I just hope I'll
strike the right flavor with your husband. Hey, part, I beg your
pardon of where you're going. Oh, I'm on my way to the x
Brook. That's it. Isn't it at the end of the year. Yes,
that's the x brook. But visiting ours ain't an effect. Oh yeah,
habba details got a little job of work to do, oh such as
drudging sounds deep for anything in particular a body? I see someone fell overboard.
Well maybe Horry could have been pushed. Okay, mister Coupler, we'll
tell her. That's ready to see you now. It's very nice of the
lieutenant. Come on, they found the body thenny Yeah, WA's your stuff
here? Hey, lord turning, here's the guy. Okay Simmons, Now,
mister Templer, I understands you've been hanging around the watchful waiting might be
a better description. I'll bring you here a man named Sparrow, friend of
yours. I never met him, however, I'd like to see him.
Why he might be worth seeing. He might be let him inte, mister
Temple, aren't you the saint? Yes? But you don't want my biography
at the moment, do you? No? Man, he said you wanted
to look at Sparrow. Okay, look at him. Yeah he's not very
pretty. Nobody is. After soaking in the harbor for three days, she
must have been hungry. Yeah, The guy's face is practically gone, but
he was carrying his papers on him. The temple you found your man,
Frank Sparrow. M he was drowned. Surprised he wasn't drowned. There a
couple of bullets in him. Who put him there. The same night he
disappeared. The night watchman on us tub disappeared too, an old guy named
Gleason. We found the watchman's gun and one of the ventilators. Two shots
had been fired from it. Also, some weights were missing. Watchman shot
Sparrow. Put the weights in his clothing to keep him down for a while,
get him down for three days, But Sparrow came up anyway, proving
you can't keep a good man down or a bad man. Templar acts suspicious
about anything, says he. No, he believed me. He got looking
for Sparrow. Now they're a good girl, says he. I wonder they
go. That could be unhealthy. And Collins asked you the front for us,
get a legit character like Templar to find Sparrow for us, for which
you get paid. Don't wonder all right, lego, why are you so
anxious to find Sparrow? Yours? Me and Collins all must be a lot.
Mind your own business, says he. All right, where's Collins telling
Templer? We want to know where Sparrow is the instant? Templer tags him,
saying, there we go. You told me why you didn't want to
go to Templar yourself. You said he'd be more willing to do it if
a pretty girl like me asked him. And what's that supposed to be?
Neons? No, but I'm beginning to think maybe the reason you wanted your
name's kept out of it is suppose something happens to Sparrow after Templar finds him,
something fatal, then you'd be in the clear. You've got a very
healthy imagination. It doesn't feel healthy right now, Lesson, you're running an
errand for me. Don't try to run it up to anything else. Otherwise
you wouldn't lay a hand on me, Oh wouldn't. I see you're wrong
about that. It could be wrong about the lots of things, So stop
imagining. Do like your to me. I'll tuck into the bedroom till we
see us. Come on for somebody else coming coming? Oh Simon, may
I come in? Of course? I'm glad you came. I've been sort
of lonely. That's not exactly why I came. Oh, Simon, you
don't mean you've already found Frank. I don't. Oh, Simon, You're
wonderful, not especially. It was very simple. What isn't simple is why
someone followed me here, someone followed you. Oh, you must be imagining
it, Grabs. I thought better of my imagination though. However, Susan,
what was your husband carrying on him? Oh? I don't quite know
what that means, carrying something, Just a wild shot, Susan. When
I got down to the ship, the police were very busy fishing a body
out of the harbor. The papers found on it belonged to Frank Sparrell.
Oh no, no, nothing else in his pockets except Susan. A night
watchman named Gleaton disappeared the night of the murder, presumably after emptying those pockets.
Oh wow, that's why you asked me what my husband might be carrying
on? Yeah, I don't know, I Simon. You'd better go now,
of course. The shock Yes, good night, Susan, Good night,
Simon. Shot came from down the hall, Timon, don't leave me,
Come on back inside the New Corps. Same man who'd followed me here,
Colins. What nothing you just said? Colin? Did you see the
man who's shot him? No? By the time I got to the end
of the holly was gone. Who is Collins, Susan, I don't know
anyone named Collins. You must have made a mistake, Susan. A man
was just killed out there. The police will be along in a very little
while. They'll identify him. That'll lead them to you. No, the
police don't know anything about I do. You wouldn't tell them. How long
have you been married to Frank Sparrow? A couple of years. And you
spend a lot of time outdoors, don't you. Someone must have told you
how attractive tanned blondes are. Well, yes, I do get out a
bit. Mind slipping that wedding ring off your finger? No thanks? What
do you star your ring finger and prettily even under the ring. You haven't
been wearing that ring very long, Susan. Otherwise there'd be a band of
lighter skin on your finger, which means you're not married, Susan. You
just started wearing that ring today, Simon, I'll have to you pretend to
be Sparrow's wife and asked me to find him. Why I a friend of
mine? I mean Sparrow was a friend of mine. I was worried about
him. Now you know, I didn't kill Collins. I was here in
the room with you when and when, you know, might have killed Collins,
just as you might have killed Sparrow. What you said? The night
watchman Gleason were suspected, that's all. Who asked you to pretend you were
Sparrow's wife? A man named Rigo? Why did he want Sparrow found?
He didn't tell me. What were you supposed to do when I found Sparrow?
For tell Rigo? That's all. Where is Rigo? Now? I
don't know where does he live? I don't know that either, But the
next time you see him, Susan, ask him to get in touch with
me. All right, Simon, they're a back way out of this apartment.
I'd just as soon avoid the police. Backway apartments frequently have them,
you know, usually through the kitchen, of course. Come on, I'll
show you. You can go right out here. Those stairs lead to the
street. Oh, thank you, Susan, Simon. Couldn't you forget that
you ever came to see me? Yes, Susan, I can be forgetful
about a lot of things, but not Mardie. Bright boy gun you went
very smart, Sisan. What do you mean feeding bred boy my name?
I had to otherwise he might have turned me over to the cops. You
didn't knock off Collins, did you? So? Why I worry? Because
maybe you did? Little thinker, ain't you, Susie. I was in
the apartment when Collins got it. You could have gone out the back door,
shot him, then come back. Sure, Only you forgot to mention.
That's the Templar. I didn't forget Rego. You were expecting something from
Sparrow, something worth money. That night watchman who killed Sparrow must have stolen
it. But you're going to find that night watchman now, aren't you.
I wouldn't know Sparrow's being fished out of Ahaba. Don't make me feel good.
I stuck my neck out on this for peanuts. There's been a couple
of murders, Rigo. I want more money from my end of this job.
Suppose I did kill Colin, says he. That would be on account
of I didn't want to cut him in. I mentioned your name to Templar.
That would be because I wouldn't want you to get the same idea about
me. You're not only pretty, says he, a smart thanks, you
could easily get too smart. All right, I'll cut you in sysie,
but no more flapping up the mouth than templar. Right right, everybody,
SUSI, where are you going? Um? I'm a hard working man.
I need a rest. But about Gleason the night watchman? Worry you'll have
to pedal of stuff he took off Sparrow does you won't forget to let me
know? Will you? I won't forget? And you watch yourself for that
singer because the way I've heard it, it's only a nickname. Hello,
Rico, I rather thought you'd be using the backdoor, jem. Let's not
loiter, shall we? The police object you have a nice visit with Susan
Susan Hill. If you went in Susan's apartment, you might have been out
in the hallway killing Collins. Oh, now you mentioned that you meant Susan.
You sure I was in her apartment all the time? Why were you
hiding when I dropped in? We know how it is. I'm a gentleman.
Yeah, the word has been redefined since I went to school. Rico
it looks as though Sparrow is a dead end. How are you going to
find Gleason? Why should I want him? Whatever Sparrow had, Gleason has
it now something We ain't miss Susie's apartment house anymore. It's kind of late.
Nobody around. You're very exactly also somebody who don't like interference. That's
why you're showing me your gun. What's to stop me from getting you out
of my head? For one thing, you're bald. For another, the
man who's been trailing us ever since we left Susan's house, you're lying.
Look back fat. Oh no, you're just angling for a chance to jump
me. That's your problem. Okay, move up in front of me a
couple of people now, I'll take a look. Sorry, yeah, I've
seen him, only I couldn't have He's dead. Pretty go, you're a
fool. If you hadn't started running, we could have caught the man trailing
us. I like this better being in a cab. Oh that's the kind
of remark I approve of, Louis. Stay out of this conversation, sudden
you don't like cab drivers, mister TUMPTI, I'm crazy about them. Look
I see two fellas having a foot race in the middle of the night.
I think maybe they would get there faster than a cab. I pull over
to the cope. And it's my fault. It turned out to be you,
how mister Tumptons, No loie, and I'm very grateful that she stopped
for it. Okay, ain't nobody mentioned the address fifty three Colton, Well
it's address? Who is that man, Rego, George Washington. You're a
little behind the times, bigger? Did you kill Collins? No? Can?
You're proving no. The police are gonna want somebody for that murder.
I'll let them find our own murderers. I got other troubles. May turn
out to be the same trouble. Rego, you didn't kill Collins, and
the man who did maybe after you. Yeah, and for the same reason,
to get you out of the way so he could catch in on the
stuff Sparrow was smuggling into the country. Jewels, that guy who cares what
you guess? Besides, that would make it Gleason. And I ain't afraid
of Gleason. Why not because he ain't dead. And mister Templer, yes,
Louis, you know personally, I'm not sorry. We deposited mister Rigo
at his house. He's not that type. I'm comfortable driving around in my
care. That would be narrow minded, Louis. No, it's not that
I'm narrow minded, just so happens. I'm not bulletproof neither, he mister
Temple, you want I should drive you back to that Blant's apartment, No,
Louis, Or than your description of what was not the truth? Oh
it was the truth. But I have a more important darn one the middle
of the night. What could be more important than a plant? A car?
Louis? Make it the morgue all right, Louis, Oh it's about
time. I don't enjoy waiting on for a fair outside of the Morgue.
I get morbid thoughts. What do you want? I should take you back
to Rigo? He goes house. Look, mister Templer, I got a
suggestion. Why don't we just stay here and send for Rigo? You know,
then after he got through with us, we could move right into the
Morgue without bothering nobody. Yeah, I should have been a truck driver.
Oh, you whistle nicely, my brother in law, he keeps telling them,
louisas you should be a truck driver. You'lin manners want to be polite
to people? Why not how to help distress motorists when they're in distress?
Why how you shouldn't it be a road hog? And above everything else,
he says, you don't have to associate with riff rat. So I listen
to him. No, I stay a cab driver, and I visit the
morgue. Hey, mister Templer, what did you do there? Looked at
the corpse they fished out of the harbor. Huh? He improved in appearance
h at lane, However, I did, suggested the officer in charge.
Did he get in touch immediately with Spara's dentist? Oh? Wow, wow,
the corps has a toothpaker. Oh, I don't know, but it's
possible, Louis, it's possible. Let me go go yet, Susie.
Let me in where I'm out? The unlocked the door. It's nice if
you to visit me, Susie. What's the matter with you? Go?
I see things? Are you sure you come along? Of course I did.
Maybe you only think so because maybe somebody came with you, only you
can't see him. You're drunk. I wish I was drunkerre we go,
you killed Collins? That's you wouldn't have killed him on speculation. You must
have found Gleason yourself got the jewels from him, then you killed Collins so
you could keep them all. Maybe you're nuts. I want my share where
you come right over and ask fim it like a buying like Collins off on
account of those stones. What makes you think I wouldn't do the same thing
for you, Because I've got this ladies model. It'll do. Yeah,
I'm not very bright. I we go. What's the matter? Window?
There's somebody the window. He's got a gun. I figured him to have
run as no place to run to. Please? Oh no, no,
open the door or shots we go? Never mind? Rego go who shot?
No? No, we go. Don't be a fool. That's that
Simon. He's dead. You were the only one in the room within,
Susan. He was shot through that window. Simon, Please believe me when
the glass broken by the bullets, he is a glass fell under the room.
Someone outside, chat rigo, someone keep talking, Susan, he's still.
You must know that, we know we're in the light. Oh is
it? Sigh? Before I think I could name him? Keep talking Sisson.
I'm going to work my way around to the wall next to the window
as soon as I get there, and put the lights out in here.
The lights? Why you knew the switch? Don't look at it. It's
to your left, a little higher than your waist. Turn a bit away
from me, slide one hand behind your back. What are you going to
do with Simon? Windows? The lights? I'm scaredn't worry about it,
and said Susan. Catch your finger on the switch. Yes, all right,
then let's have a little darkness. I think I'm much better, Susan.
Put the lights on inside all right, Simon, Simon, did you
yes? Yes, a little stranger is resting. You're recognize him? No,
I've never seen him, and perhaps i'd better introduce you to him.
Susan, meet mister Sparrow. So all right, mister Temple, is a
guy you in that dot side of Rigo's house? Was Sparrow? Yeah?
So he killed REGOs so he also killed Collins only but he was dead.
No, Louis, they checked with Sparrow's deadist. It wasn't Sparrow in the
morgue or sure, sure he was out shooting people, but if it wasn't
Sparrow who was the night watchman Gleason? Oh you mean instead of Gleason knocking
off Sparrow, it was Sparrow, which not for Gleason, That's right,
Louis. Then he emptied Gleason's pockets and put his own papers in them.
He hoped that would result in the police looking for Gleason. Yeah, he
also hoped it would throw Collins and Rego off. It did, until he
could kill them and keep the jewels for himself. It's a very low type.
Only you must have known before you caught Sparrow on a colf You know,
you told the cops to look up that dentist. So how did you
know? Obviously Sparrow was in a hurry after he killed Gleason, the shots
might have been heard. Therefore, he didn't have time to change clothes with
the dead man. All he could do was empty Gleason's pockets of everything that
I'd have identified him in substitute his own identification. And then he hoped the
water and the fishes would make it impossible to identify Gleasian. Huh, but
that still don't tell me. Louis was too pat what the only thing in
a corpse. This pocket turned out to be is identification papers a corpse otherwise
unrecognizable. Oh it's too pat and they're there for a fake sure, okay,
yeah, but there's something else you have to explain, which is why
ain't that beautiful blund with you? Susan? Yeah? Oh, she's in
conference at headquarters? Is that soul? Yes? Who says the policeman's lot
is not a happy one. You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of
the Saint the robin Hood of Modern Crime, and now here is our starve
and surprise, Ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's cast who heard Sheila Bromley as
Susan and Ted de Courtier as Rico. Didney Miller played the night watchman Gleason
and Peter Leeds played Collins. Harry Bartell was the Lieutenant and Harry Brown the
policeman. Louis is played by Larry Dopkin. This is Vincent Bryce inviting you
to join us again next week at the same time for another exciting adventure of
the Saint. Good Night. The script of The Saint was written by Lewis
Vidis The Saint based on characters created by Leslie Chatters is that James el Sutter
production and is directed by Helen Mind. Vincent Price is soon to be seen
co starring with Errol Flynn and Michelin Perel, and William Marshall's production of Bloodline.
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Welcome Back, Well, this one was probably, in terms of mystery,
one of the weaker Saint plots. I guess this one early on,
just because it did seem to me the likely big shake up rather than any
of these people who were far away having committed the crime. I also have
to say that with the suspects talking among themselves and the way the Saint comes
into this, it almost seems like a script or The Falcon, and I
can't help but wonder if this was either a reused script or a script that
had been proposed for The Falcon and then rejected and subsequently reworked for the Saint.
Acting is still good, and Vincent Price X one is always speaking of
that. We have some listener comments and feedback. Jan says, love Vincent's
Price's voice on the Saint radio show I have. I'd have watched him a
lot more than Roger Moore if he'd been on the TV series. Wow.
High praise indeed, Jen. And then we have a note from Joe.
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It's truly appreciated. That will do it for today. Join us tomorrow
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