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tenth of nineteen fifty and the title is The Horrible Hamburg The Adventures of the
Saint, starring Vincent Price. The Saint based on character is created by Leslie
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The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes transcribed alradyo, Sorry, Hollywood's brilliant
and tell her the doctor of Vincent Price as let's sing Taxi Taxi. Among
men who know locomotion test, it's Louis three to one. Hello, Louis's
mister temple climate, thank you, and with can I watch you this beautifully?
With a can you after me? Louis? What's wrong? Something has
to be wrong? Before I use a poetical type speed. No, but
I as a law which says cab drivers can't use good England. Well no,
but oh with can I watch you wa me the spring Lake Road?
If you please? Spring Lake Road. I never height of it. You've
nothing better to do than make go on making up new streets, and Louis,
spring Lake Road is in west chest Good let it stay there, Ouie.
I want to go there. Why I've been invited to dinner by some
friends. The food tastes better in west Chest. No, but my friends
lived there. Okay, so please don't tuck, Louie. Lots of people
live in Westchester. Lots of people are crazy. Westchester happens to be a
very lovely place full of trees, ain't it. The trees are attracted apes.
I'd better tell you how to go well to tell me I'll find it?
I know, butson, mister Temper, I'm a cab driver. Cab
drivers never get lost, Louis, don't say it. We've just passed that
oak tree on the left for the third time, so it's an active tree.
I thought cab drivers never got lost. Somebody swiped all the streets sign
from the trees, so I got lost, So I'll turn my badge,
and so my wife will despise me, so my children will go through life
a shame of their old man. So, Louis, Louis, it's ten
o'clock. My dinner in the was for eight thirty. You'll never make it.
I don't doubt that, but I'm hungry. Next time you get to
an eating place, don't say anymore. Right up the road. Yeah,
the happy Hamburger, Ben Lawton proprietor doesn't look very happy. Why does it
got to look happy? Above? I'm at the place itself, So maybe
it looks a little like if the wolf came around and huffed and puffed,
he wouldn't have to strain along before it fell down. But food is food,
except when it's a happy hamburger. Perhaps, however, Hey, this
must be the wolf puffing or maybe puffing here he is, yeah, savage
looking at him. Some of the poor dog looks as if he hadn't eaten
for a week. Let's get into the joint before he mistakes me for a
tea ball stake feels happy hamburger is not having a busy night. What can
I do for you? We'd like some dinner? Well, we're kind of
closing, but you have haven't closed yet. No, I guess we ain't
said anywhere. I guess the missus dish up some food. I'll go tell
her a very enthusiastic type hooles. Never mind that, I hope they have
a well stocked ladder. I hope it further occurs to me that they don't
have to go out and catch that dog before they have a lighter at all.
Stop hoping a man could get seasoned. Of course, this place may
be an undiscovered gourmet's delight, but I wouldn't bet on it. A gourmet
who could have delighted in this place is still undiscovered. What do you think
of Missus Lawton's cooking? You know, I don't want to think of it.
I'm trying to eat it. Finish with your jennifellers. The dinner is
more likely to finish it. How about dessert? Well, we've got blueberry
pie. We got huckleberry pie. Once diff huckleberry pie is a nickel moore.
Why harder to spell? Which you have apple pie? Oh? Man,
what's the matter, lily dinner? Yeah? I know exactly what you
mean. However, we won't starve to death. While you try to find
your way back. I beg your pardon. It wasn't made up as a
pie. I was afraid it was. I think maybe yeah, flat flat
fine. We're back in front of that oak tree again. You keep your
eye on that open mister Temple. When I get to spare, yeah,
want some help? No thanks, thank you, mister Temple. Yes,
Louis, come here. Don't tell me you can't lift the spare all by
yourself. The spare I could lift. But there's something else you see.
Yes, a hitchhiker man in his forties, crabs dressed in farmer's clothing.
He might might have walken terribly tired, Louis, he got dead. Somebody
shoots the guy, all right, maybe you don't like him. Why does
he have to stuff the corpse into the trunk of my cab? I don't
know. There were no papers of any kind on the body, all right,
so he's a total stranger. But why are we heading back to that
Happy Hambling Because that's where we must have acquired the corpse. It's the only
place we stopped. We're out the side of the car unless he was already
in the trunk before we left the city. No no, I checked the
tires plus the speed before I picked you up. Then it's the Happy Hamburger.
The man was murdered fairly recently. Anyway, how do you know?
No rigor more? This body warning the mind? Never mind? You know
I'll stay a dope And it's the temple. What kind of a welcome you
think we're gonna get at the Hamburger? It's hard to tell, except that
it may not be a welcome at all. Joint is doc looks like maybe
they went out of business. There's a house behind the restaurant that's dock too.
The Lawtons may have gone to bed. It's after eleven. It is
very late. Maybe we should go to bed. Becomes a Julia whale wolf
again. Yeah, animals should be bad, but not by me. All
the flesh I got I need from a long living. I'm coming, So
is the hound of the basket. He's not bothering us so far. He
kept his feet to themselves. Suppose he decides the risk if you and see
how we take it, And it's a chance we'll have to take yeh here
goes Oh, look now that our tumber has left us again. If I
couldn't be more pleased. You know, if they're asleep, then I'm going
to love us with a great love, and I'm not at the moment seeking
affection. Yeah, missus Lawton, that's right. My name is Simon Templer.
This is Louis. What do you want. You cooked dinner for us
a little while ago, so I cooked dinner for you. But since that
time we've had a little trouble. We had a flat tire. This ain't
a garage. I wasn't referring to the tire when I said trouble. Why
don't you say what you're referring to? Well, I would rather your husband
were here when I do. He's asleep, or he can be waved.
What far it's a matter of some importance. You still ain't said anything.
The matter might be murder. Murder, that's right, Come in, I
think right in here. It's the parlor, Michelle. It takes time to
waken mister Lawton. He sleeps hard. Well, I'm sorry, but I'm
afraid it's necessary. That don't make it easier, But I'll get him up
from drift. I think the wait for her is gracious. Very few women
are at their best in the middle of the night. Louis. That's what
you'd think, would you like? Now? Okay, Hey, mister Temple,
you figuring the deceased that we got in the cab was put there by
a lort. It's not necessarily they did have the opportunity, But so what
anyone else who might have been around the place where we were having dinner or
stop complicating, thinks it's bad enough. This is some Paula he has.
I've seen cheerier places. They got a radio oil? No television set?
Is that there? The Temple? What do you think of television? I
think of it as infrequently as I can. Missus Lawton is apparently having difficulty
awaken her husband from what we've seen a guy, how can she tell when
he's awake? And eleven twelve? You know what happens at midnight? Ghosts
take walks. Maybe our botes have flown the coop. It's a possible thing.
How can a boid fly a coop in here? M hm? They
can't fly a coop? Hi, Hello, mister Lawton, you didn't have
to bother dressing for it. I dress for myself. Don't go second mud
over the best rug seck where you are? I'll set where I am.
Wife tells me you're mister Templar. I am. She also tells me you
got something to say about a murder. I have say it in a moment.
Your wife and you own the Happy Hamburger. You already know that.
I noticed quite some farm land behind the house yours? Yeah, frement yourself?
Pretty much? Does that? Pretty much mean you have help? Sometimes
hired hand named Webster? Why only sometimes? Well, you up and quit
this afternoon. It's too bad. Oh, he'll be back as soon as
he spends his money. You might be wrong about that, always has before.
What are you getting at? Suppose we go outside to the cab?
Huh? I don't mind. Come on emmy, I'm right here. What
kind of a man is Webstein? Oh? Not much? Account works when
he has to eat, gets a full belly, stops working. The philosopher
perhaps if you have any quarrels with him? I don't know. Is the
ancient mister Templar? Perhaps? But is there any reason why your husband should
hesitate about answering that question? No reason, No quarrels, fight, Louis,
Yeah, please open the trump compartment, will you sure? In a
second, there's something I'd like to show you, mister Lawton, lois if
you were planning on surprising anybody, give up? What do you mean?
Look, m looks like Boyd, cancel like Coops. Something I picked the
wrong Boyd. We have mislaid our corpse. Mister appear strange. See how
about letting us in on this. Mister Lawton was your hired hand, a
man in the middle forties with brown hair and eyes of stocky build a small
scar under his left job one. That's Webster. You must have met him.
What do you have to say for himself? We met him, but
he didn't have anything to say. We didn't start out being the great loves
of the loss of his life. But I hate to think what they must
be thinking of us now right. I hate to think of the missing mister
Webster. Yeah, he didn't even say goodbye, mister Temple. What happened
to him? I don't know. Corpses rarely are the active tide, but
the late mister Webster may have been an exception. Exceptions like that. I
hope stay away from me. We're in what could easily be an overgrown filling
station. Slow down, lowie, this is expert oh in the town nearest
the happy Hamburger place seems to be shut up for the night. I didn't
think the sidewalks in though. Hey, up ahead the gay white way.
The drug store appadly is still open. Let's stop there, len Okay,
yeah, when those full of harnesses vitalizer and yacht goods. How did you
know? What's a drug store? And there's a large sign advertising ice cream
sodas in front. Oh well that explains it. Well, thisting only for
information, come along joined us crawling with juveniles, and look at the joke
box. And so it is the waitress behind the fountain. And that's too
covering the waitress the fountain. H mister templar, I just noticed behind the
cast rogister dissent, look it. Yeah, we'll not put your eyes back
in their sockets. She's dressed in gingham, she's wearing pigtails and big blue
eyes. She's merely the farmer's daughter doing. Is that a fact? Hey?
Maybe she knows a joke, maybe able to help with his help the
word you really had in mind? Good evening, man, I beg your
pardon, sofa, what's for? Hmm? And far I means what it
used to be? Not to mention the farmer's daughter. Who's a little stranger
who's Oh that's Louis. It's not bad either, but it looks married.
Who are you? I'm a templar, I'm Teddy. And what are you
doing after I get through here? Well? Are you married? No?
What a coincidence. I'm not married either, but it happens all the time.
But what I wanted my closest in half hour? Tell me that,
my dear Teddy? I Look, what do you know about a man named
Webster? Dan Webster? M I imagine so hired hand out to the Lawtons.
Yeah, that's the Dan Webster I had in mind. He wears a
private property no trespassing sign on him. Oh who's signed missus Lawton's m How
does mister Lawton feel about that? Mister Lawton has never seen fit to whisper?
Sweet? Nothing's in my show like ears? Don't you think the show
like my ears? I mean I hadn't noticed stop wasting time and do so
noticing. Look, I'm almost old enough to be your father maybe, but
you're not my father. Uh good, so far, it's a terrible evening.
Where are you going? Louie? And I have an erin to do.
My phone number is one three seven in case in case of what your
erin is out of town. Goodbye, Wow. I'm afraid Wow is exactly
right. Oh, you know, I'm coming to the conclusion they got something
these small towns up in question. But do you mean they have is teddy
and you're married and we have an appointment? Yeah? Well the Happy Hamburger.
You mean we're going to wake the Lawtons again? I hope not.
So what are we going out there for? We're going to dressed us on
very private property. I ought to hang us, would shuttle on it.
I'm like, I don't imagine we're going to be coming out here again.
You're not breaking my heart. You know, every time we come out to
the Happy Hamburger gets darker. I think I'll coin a proverb too late.
It's always darker before it's lighter. I don't think that'll catch on Happy Hamburgers.
Up ahead, Louis. We have a problem. Oh, thanks for
letting me. What kind of a problem have we got? We gotta find
a pond, a brook, or perhaps a lake. You've got a sudden
desire to go swimming, No, not swimming. You forget something, Louis.
I always forget something. What is it this time? Ponds, brooks
or lakes create mud? Oh? Thanks a lot tonight. I don't need
any mud. Call me hypersensitive. I just don't need any more. You
better stop the car under these trees. Okay, you know about that mud.
I have to spect you're mistaken. That's because you've got a suspicious nature.
Get starting, head away from the house. Why we're looking first?
I know, I know, and they rarely occur in house? Okay,
okay? Does this watery object you're looking for have to be any place in
particular? Or are we surveying in Westchester count It has to be on the
Lawton's land. All that helps? Yeah? Probably they got one hundred and
thirty nine acres and in the dark. How are we gonna search it?
I understand? Hazel twigs. Don't wait anymore. That hound without a home
again. I hope he goes away and be silly. Way we water meet
up with him. You'll do all the wanting by yourself. Why because he's
going to be a hazel twig? What is he went make? You mean?
He'll help us find water? Actually, but what is all this excitement
about water? Anyway? Among other things, the way water wish is away
blood. No, I'll tell you a secret, mister Templar, I never
like hikes. It can't be much longer. That dog is definitely leading us
somewhere. She'll probably to a poney buried the last month. I don't do
it. We're referring to the junior sized lakes that pond. Yes, no,
what, oh fine, fine, he went swimming. We gotta go
swimming too. No, we can walk around the pond. We're at one
end of it. Hey, look at that on ground, hunker Hamburger has
stopped. Yeah, just beyond the pond, in a small plump of trees.
We're joining them. Of course, Come on, why because the land
around the pond is muddy, all right, So the land around upon is
money. This fills me with a great dog's not moving, he's waiting for
him. Also fills my shoes with mud. Hey, you know what,
half the trees, when they die, they become telegraphed. Stop swiping my
jokes. That dog is going nut with joy. To be sure, everybody
hasn't even gone near a tree. He's digging at the ground for sure.
You had that bonny buried last month. Do you know what we're going to
do, Louis, I got an unhappy idea. We're gonna copy the dog
and dig right, I'm already looking for something to do with. What are
we going to dig for? Something the dog lost? No, something we
lost, Hey, mister Temples, a couple of feet more, I'll be
in China. Don't be silly. You can't get to China by digging straight
down, but you can't where you get is Australia tells me things like that,
Hey, what is it, Louis? From where you are you can't
see but from down here and I'll come to the edge of the hall.
Well, Louis, we've kind of found that courts all over again. Look,
you tell that dolls to shut up. I don't feel so now.
I'll give you a hand, Louis. Help climb out of the hole.
That sounds like a cap backfire roads too far away, Never mind climbing up
here, Louis, I'm going to join you down there. Hey, what's
going on? And I'm not gonna like the answer? And someone is having
target practice with us for target wool. I could see a vague figure at
the other side of the pond, too dark to identify. Oh, there
goes that houn that walks like a horse. Probably figured was too crowded down
here. Hey, mister Templar, I hate to mention this, but if
the boy with the gun kind of world is over here. I realized that
Louis this grave we're in isn't level. The edge on your side is lower
than the one facing the pond, which means you can climb out without being
seen. Make for the trees, then for the roads, your cab,
and if you police him may be sober, then what are you going to
do? Stay here as our gun shooting friend will head for the cab too.
While I'm getting help, you are level to be getting gun. There's
a chance we'll have to take, and believe me, I'm not taking it
with any great joy, but we have no alternative. You better hurry,
okay, mister Templar, But look at with the way the taxi businesses,
be careful. I don't want to have to look for another fair and a
condor you got shot in the woods. To me, well, it's been
a lovely life. Simon, What on earth are you doing down there?
What on earth? Not? Teddy? Is it fun down there? Because
if it's fun, if I'm right down, Teddy, stay where you are.
Hum may not be very fancy down here, but it is cozy.
Simon. You didn't tell me you weren't alone. I didn't have a chance.
You better not to look at him too long, Simon, what on
earth are you doing down at the bottom of a grave with mister Lawton.
He is mister Lawton, isn't he? Well, of course he is.
Why do you say it in that funny way? Because we were supposed to
think it was Dan Webster, except that I hadn't thought so none for a
while and he was murdered. Teddy, did you murder it? No?
Well, I'm certainly glad to hear that, because you're very handsome. But
after all, even hansome fellow shouldn't murder people. What they should do with
Teddy, Dan Webster, along with Missus Lawton murdered mister Lawton. Well,
that's not very surprising, because I did have a crush on each other,
and nobody loved mister Lawton anyway. They must have planned to leave town immediately
after the murder. But uh, Teddy, did you happen to notice a
dog about? Not to mention Dan Webster, I heard somebody running in a
dog barking before I found you? Mmm, dog muster frightened webster? Are
so that's all right? How did you find me? I noticed your car
outside the Happy Hamburger. I lived down the road a bit and was going
home, so I knew he was someplace around. And when I was a
little girl, I used to be a girl scout. Because you wanted to
learn how to tie out to bill campfire, No, because I wanted to
learn how to track a man. I had a feeling it would come in
handy it had. Did anybody call for a cab? Louis excuse me,
daddy, Hello Louis, Hello, Louis says, I thought you'd gone to
town for hell. It would take too long. Think maybe I could get
behind the villain and surprise him. So instead, mister Templey, you surprised
me. Back to the Hamburger again, well hungry, No, except perhaps
for justice Simon. The Lawton's car is out front, missus Lawton's inn.
It come on into the cab this way. It'd be as quiet as you
can't. I can't see us under the trees here, can your ignition on?
Louis be ready to start the car. It's ready, that's just coming
out of the house carrying a couple of suitcases getting into the car. Here
they go, Louis, I know, follow them, may not notice they're
being followed, and supposing they do, I will have to chance that.
Okay, but look, I don't mind so much being shot myself. But
don't forget this here can't belongs to the company. I can't afford to get
bullets in it. We're coming into Exbrook now, mister temple Teddy. At
this hour of the night, no one would be about him. I right,
that is kind of light. The police station is where the next block
in that case. Catch up with him, Louie, quick, well,
I should have a collision with him, preferably a small size when you're a
good driver, Louis, run them off the road. But the caver mind
that hit them as soon as we get opposite the station. Okay, I
only hope it will show on the meter. We're getting close to him and
hit thanks going, Louis. Oh didn't leave a scratch of fender, say
one of those tops polite, which is very unusual. And Louis, be
still, why I have to explain things to Teddy here? From what I
heard sheet on Louie. I shut up, please, Simon tell me,
well, you see, teddy, missus Lawton and Webster planned to kill mister
Lawton and then leave town, figuring no one would ever know. How did
they expect to get away with it? Actually, their idea of placing the
corpse in the trunk compartment of the cab was clever. Normally the body wouldn't
have been discovered for days and then miles away from expero. But instead you
got a flat and came back very lucky flat. But not for missus Lawton
and Webster. She got quite a shock when she saw her smiling faces,
but she kept her head and sent Webster out to remove the body from Louis's
cabin hide it. The only mistake she made was being two housewifely, what
do you mean? Oh? When Webster returned, her instinctive reaction was to
tell him not to track mud on the rug. If he'd been asleep in
the house, there shouldn't have been mud on his shoes. Therefore, I
concluded he'd been out I see, and when the body was missing, I
knew that he'd buried it. The mud also told me the burial place had
to be near water and mister Lawton's dog led you to the burial place and
that's where I found you. Simon m Yes, but we were kind of
interrupted back there, so wow, wow, wow, Louis, I'm not
hearing a thing. Was she the thing in my review mirror? Louis,
we've reached Teddy's pay stop the car? Okay, what sign? My dear.
You're very lovely, but you're very young, so I'm afraid this is
where the farmer's daughter goes back to the farm. You've been listening to another
transcribed adventure of a Saint, the robin Hood of Modern Crime. Now here's
our star of Incent Price, ladies and gentlemen. Our cast tonight included Louise
Ericsson, Loreene Gamille, Arthur Q. Bryan and Dave Light. Larry Dobkin
was Louie. This is Bencent Brice inviting you to join us again next week
at the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Tonight's script of
the Saint was written by Lewis Vittie. The music was composed and conducted by
Von Dexter. The Saints based on characters created by Leslie Charteris as a James
L. Safier production and is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent Price is soon
to be seen co starring in RKO's production of His Kind of Woman. All
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Good Times on NBC. Wednesday marks the return to the air of that delightful
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your Invitation next to Sam Spay, then an hour long drama on Theater Guild
on MBB. Welcome back, Well. I continue to appreciate just the sheer
number of rules that Arthur Q. Brian is getting here, particularly noteworthy for
those of us who primarily remember him as Elmer five. And I did find
that whole part about caves not getting lost and really knowing their way around interesting
because that's been something I've traditionally held to, though in the last couple of
times I've taken Calves. I don't do it too often. I've been very
surprised to find that in the twenty first century we have cabvees who don't actually
know their way around the area and are actually totally dependent on the GBS.
Though I don't know in this case, that's probably a little bit of twenty
first century knowledge that would have benefited LOWI. But at any rate, that'll
actually do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Crime and Peter Chambers,
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