Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at
Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com
Slash Radio Detectives. Well, before we do get started, I want to
encourage you, if you've not already, to pick up your copy of Slime
Incorporated. It's my first ever full length detective novel, and in it,
private investigator Cole Ustick investigates a case of murder and political intrigue set against the
backdrop of the Ottaho Governor's race. It's available as a paperback, in ebook
and now as an audiobook through audible dot com. And you can see a
list of all the items of written at us store Do Great Detectives dot net.
Now it's time for today's episode of The Saint. The original air date
is April the fifteenth of nineteen fifty one and the title is Strange Bedfellows The
Adventures of the Saints, starring Vincent Price. The Saint based on characters created
by Leslie Charteris and Norns of 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 Vincent Price as the Saint. Hello, this is long
distant. I have a call from mister Simon Templin. This is please,
Hello Kenton. I have you a party on the line. Hold on,
please, mister Templer. Mayor Towers is calling. Hello Templer, how are
you, mister Mayor? How's your campaign coming? Templer? Could you get
up here to my home right away? I know it's asking a lot,
but this is urgent, most urgent. Safe me. What's it all about?
Well, I would like to say too much of the phone, Templer.
Bit something has come up which could very well cost me my office.
Oh that's nothing, but it might cost me the life of my son.
I take the first brain I can get. Well, Thank you, my
boy, Thank you, and Templer. Say nothing to anyone nothing. Yes,
Mayor Towers sent for me, Simon Temper. Oh, come in,
Templer, come in. Thank you good. If you had to come so
promptly, we appreciate it. I'm j. Chase Finley, the Mayor's confidential
secretary. Will you come right this way here. Thank you. It's a
very imposing home. I hadn't been here before. We like it in here,
pace, Simon Templer, mister Mayor, Templer, good to see you
again, Simon, much too long much? How I well, thanks,
mister man. Mister Mayor listened to him. Worse you aren't calling him mister
Mayor. That night up at the Plaza Hotel, when Simon, my wife,
my dear missus, Simon Templer, old old brad frectly Simon, my
wife, rudeness, how do you do? Married? Five years now since
you and I last saw each other. Templer, sit down, Sit down,
m my dear, business I'm getting married, Russell. I told you,
my dear, there's nothing to worry about. I can't help her.
I sometimes wonder, Prudence, if you would be as worried about me,
if I stayed the way a few days, you wouldn't stay away a few
days, Russell. Good good night, mister Goodness. Tower said he has
a very beautiful first lady, mister here, as you see, Templer,
I haven't told her about Bill Favorite. Her reaction would be well. The
reason we sent for your Templar is that the Mayor's son must be being held
a prisoner, you might say, a political prisoner by whom Packie Flynn or
those who work for him. I didn't know Flynn was that crude. What's
his ankle? It's not crude at all, Temper. As you know,
the Mayor's been forced into this special election by false charges of graft and tie
ins with gangsters. Flynn's candidate, Wickersham, has made this the main theme
of his campaign and he's making serious inroads. And I haven't been able to
reply because they're holding Bill. It's horrible. Bill is the price of silence
exactly if we reply to the opposition's charges by showing his link with Packie Flynn,
the head of organized crime in the city. But Bill might be,
well, where I think of that hypocrite Wisham accusing me of corruption when all
the time he is in the camp of corruption seeking to lay his avarice's hands
on the public. Christie, whose funds most inevitably my friends come from the
pockets are simple, honest, working folk like those of you who tonight.
Well, let's see how long is this bill being gone? Four days and
the election and is only two days off. Have you reported this to the
police. Unfortunately, templar, it has lately come to my attention that my
own police force is not entirely trustworthy. Corrupting hand of petty Flynn has touched
that also after the election, I fully intend well, providing that I am
re elected. Of course, also a templar, A clumsy handling of this
thing might be extremely dangerous for the exactly I am prepared to pay the price
of silence about Flynn with a certain if necessary. If the boy is the
important thing? How does Flynn figure on getting away with this? What happens
after the election. He's gambling that I won't be elected the quiggishoman power any
charges we might make, whatever little chance of success. I get the idea,
and you want me to find Bill. If possible, I should be
everlasting, the great. My gratitude is another thing to be taken lightly,
Simon, Now do my bed? How old is Bill? Now? In
years? In fact twenty four find a templar? An organized gangsterism waxes so
bold. This is not the America nor in love, and this is not
the America that those hardy pilgrims landing on that rocky spray swept coast so many
years ago envisioned in shining imagery as well. Let's let's either here nor there
find my boy Templer. I'll do my best. Inesster. The rockets are
brought along company. Christy blind. Christip Flynn is not in. No,
I don't expect him. Thank you, good morning. What can I do
for you? I wanted to see mister Flynn. Mister Flynn is not in.
Didn't you Jackie any sisa? I never eat Scott try it. You're
missing half your life. Believe me, you believe in living vicariously. Say
are you being fresh? Because if you're not eat it, I'll do my
best. Halloween that's my favorite name. Well it's not mine, mister Flinn
b and Elloise never that is, even when he's in, he's out.
And how could we arrange it so that he is in dinner tonight? Perhaps?
Yeah, maybe we could. No, let's not plan on it.
I feel bad when you didn't show up, and you'd have me on your
conscience when you didn't show up, So why don't you just go right?
Honey? And mister Flynn is the first day to the right Ellouise. You
are destined for greatness. I'm just in to marry a guy who wears a
leathern act hie and drives a motorcycle. Don't tell mister Flinn and a Jeanet
think of it, mister Flynn for you, my name is Templer, mister
Flinn, Simon Templer. I'm from the Clean Government League and I'm interested in
getting your analysis at the present campaign. An unbelieve it. How about if
I applied for a loan. We don't give loans here except the policeman and
politicians. You don't look like either. You're very frank, Packy. Sure
I pay enough to hire politicians. They supply all the hypocrisy. That's why
don't you be just as frank with me? Templar what adviaid? I just
wanted to have a look at the famous Packy Flynn. I wouldn't believe it,
but not accepted. You aren't from j Edgar, you aren't from the
Treasury, so you can be anything else you want to be. How about
the elections. Right after it's all over, I'll still be doing business.
It's a word to remember. Business. That's what politics is, That's what
gambling is. Business. We're all in business to get it. We may
fight a little bit in public, but after it's over. We meet back
at the barn and we vide up the loops. In other words, you're
nut. That's what I like. A keen mind. I let one of
the boys show you out, and I think my keen mind and I can
find a way. We'll make sure I don't encourage nomads in my place of
business. Buster, what are you doing here? I just come down a
bit of horse packy. I wanted you there, So go home and stay
there. But first show our friend flam heard us a saw but thorough.
Let's go, friend, goodbye packing. I'll give you a message to the
clean government. Please do that. Always interested in clean government, but I
don't think it'll ever be popular. Let's just say it will never replace baseball.
To you, Buster, your goodbye Halloween. Leaving so soon. I'd
love to stay, but Buster insists we beat n run. Buster let this
guy in anyway, Yo, so fire me come over here to the elevator.
You're interested in horses bustering. I got some information this morning. I'm
something at ain't met her. I never bet drop my own system. Mathematical,
you kind have three horses from the bottom. Divide the speed Rayton by
the number of winners the jackass for the meeting Coppy fool and then you you
you well, I gotta have paper and pins, but this might be the
one to get even on. Yeah, well, I know, I know,
I never bet that. Oh yeah, but this is straight from the
owner. Yeah, what's you I'm waiting to hear this afternoon. The owner
won't release it unless he's sure. But if you give me your drink,
no, no, no, no, I love a bust. I don't
even give back to my wife. So long, friend, and don't try
to tell me. Why should I take it easy? Bust? And oh
said you haven't got a match? You should should? Yeah, I'm friends.
Stay away from tips and packy. Flynt with horses. You wind up
in a barrel with Packy. The barrel is full of comm cree. Best
do you kill me? Ohhh yeah, that's a good one. Now see
you see you like that? Well? Obami said that where I've been pounding
the pavements. George, some footloation, huh foot log overright? Ah,
you have me worried foot lauging over right here? You want? Thank you?
M hm. And now it's something for the left foot, George.
Okay, mister Templar. Isn't it, Missus Towers? What did you join
me? Watch me? I'm hoping to see a friendly face part first,
lady of the city isn't supposed to be seen drinking alone? At your service?
And as patriotic is the next? Going right up, Missus Dowlers.
He looks tired, mister Tinson. I've been trying to run down the home
of a book of matches. Well each to his own taste. May I
say that? Certain? Yeah? Each ments and growth in any success,
growing thin looking, but no success sufficiently Cryptically, my errand is much more
simple. Russell is upstairs addressing the Young Republicans Club, and I'm a fugitive.
When I look out into the sea of shining faces, I know that
the future of America is a shoe pretty much like that. Russell is nice,
It's gentle, honest. I'm Gibson for the lady. Thank you,
George, and go well, each to his own taste. I'll take a
nice thought, mister Templar. I'm not going to tell her the story of
my life, not on one thing another. I'm a student of human nature.
I'm gonna try this. When emphasize, why does a girl married at
eighteen to a boy twenty who's got just as much money and just as little
aim in life as she had divorcing a twenty one, and then at twenty
four marry a man twice raged. First she marries to get away from her
family. Then she marries a man old enough to be her father to your
turn to her family. Figuratively, that is, she shouldn't met two years
ago, would have saved her ten thousand dollars in fees for Anna. I'm
a thin, Mary Prudence about bills. Did Russell want she inspired me as
that? No, but that's part of your life. You didn't tell me.
Doesn't mean anything, never will if anything's happened to go up. Did
you give me a cigarette? Of course? Oh here's a light, he
George, Huh where'd you get those matches? I don't know. Oh yeah,
I think in a little greasy spoon. I eat in the fourth and
element. It's called Mars lunch bucket. While you collect match covers, mister
Temple, it's a business, George Prudence. I've got to go see ma.
Have a drink on me. I have a bowl of bean soup from
East Time. And you always get hungry this. Suddenly I got into politics.
You never know what meal is going to be your last? Do you
at the poles prudence? Oh, I'd like to know if you don't want
easy anybody reads here and it can afford you somewhere else. It's crazy.
Anybody who reach this is crazy. I know I do the cooking. Thank
you, Duncan nine. I just want to know if you give out this
kind of matches, well I should. Which man do you happen to know?
A not too black gentleman with a pushed in face answering to the name
of Buston you sure du lives in the building across the street for a sea,
comes in here a couple of times a day for food to take God,
I'll suspect him of feeding a woman except from my food you were left
him. Please except my undying gratitude and an autograph that you're Alexander Hamilton.
Oh no, my favorite president, the hich Son. Oh oh yeah,
yeah, what yes, yes, oh oh, I tells you well,
I was just passing by, but then I thought i'd dropped and you put
out of the door. I don't want to get wrong. I got confirmation
on that pip I mentioned Buster yeah, uh, how did you find me?
You to me? Maybe? I mean, I mean, don't get
I got a cure for that, A point to cure somewhere else. Bust
blue girl in the ninth that they met us. Be sure it's a boat
race, Buster, that jacks are all carrying oars instead of whips. Yeah,
cooked Jack. It coach me plenty, even with my shister, Harry
Buster. The night's just about off. Well, if you sure hand me
it from with you. Sure hated to do it, butter, but I
think it was a bum tip anyway. Hey, Bill Bill, are you
in there? Bill Bill? I hold it when I got the gag there.
Thanks Simon Temper, you've got a good memory. You all right?
Plugging? Open my food? Keep me quiet? Who sent you soon?
Your father? Yeah? We bet get out of here if you can make
it, Yes I Can't's all right. Let's help me a little to take
you over to your father's place. No, it's Templare I got my own
apartment. You get a good night's rest before my father sees me. Get
all upset if you say so? Do? Hey? What they is a
election? Is? No? When the elections tomorrow? You want me to
phone your father? No, I'd like to call him. Listen as I
can. Let's go you sure you'll be already to your place to sure I'll
be perfectly safe. Besides, I got a dam Man song Bystair. Thanks
for the hospitality, Oh, Templer, come in. The Mayor's been expecting
you. Templer, good morn, any luck at breakfast yet? Sedan or
something good? Me? Then I'm going out of the poles at full Findley.
What time of the photographers do you, Mayor Towers? What did you
mean anything enough? What? Bill? Of course didn't he call you last
night? Bill, he'll call me. There wasn't any call here at all,
friendly, nothing at all, said they have been. I found Bill
late yesterday afternoon. I took him to his apartment. He said he'd call
you. Why. I think we'd better get over there, Philly. You
stay here at Handling. That's the photographers, mister photographers. Well, well
they can wait once they can wait. Come on side, Temper. I
will never forgive myself of anythings. I mean a pillow, it's probably nothing.
It was pretty well knocked out from dope, maybe just fell into bed
and it's still sleepings. That's it. That that must be it he's still
sleeping. Well, here we are, Bill, But do you think that
miss tribe a door? So o Bill? Bill? Where's his bedroom in
here? I think I've been here so selling? Well there he is,
phil Bill, wake up. Look at him even as a kid. You
couldn't get him up with late a minute from Bill with his own gun?
Why chump for why? I don't know, I'm not even surety, but
the gun there, Miss Ben come away. Politician shouldn't have shippers that they
shouldn't you You never get to know them. You make a pointless to see
them moving thirsday and then one day they've grown up. That's strangers. But
Bill would have made a great contage if it. Want he had the making
is wark. Yeah, I remember this grade school graduation. This part alone.
This is advice to the ends, either the power nor a lender be
as it going thinning. We have the latest returns from two hundred and thirty
three out of five hundred and ninety four precincts or Mayor Wickersham two hundred thousand,
three hundred fourteen towers three hundred twenty four thousand, one hundred and congratulations
on a winning campaign. Thanks but we expected it. Did you Mayor coming
down? Well, you can understand how he feels, but he's never an
election night at campaign headquarters yet I imagine he'll be here. Well, mister
Temperer from the Clean Government League. These were the election mister temper Hello,
Packy as your head busting the horst lst. I looked it up to smooth
and I took advantage of you. What are you here for? Packy game?
To celebrate? What else? Inspat it? Backing Wickersham. I've backed
both candidates, that's the safest way. But I backed Towers with more money.
Would you stink? That's not what you told me, Finley, I
didn't. Well, what Packy Flynn does with his money is his own business.
He doesn't always consult me before he does it. I see well,
Well, good evening, gentleman Templer, Packy Buster, Congratulations miss the Mayor.
It's a lance by how well. It's always a good feeling to receive
a mandate and the electorate for in the long run, it is the people
who will affirm or deny the truth of the principles that I is. Well,
some other time you heard about Bill thank papers haven't carried it yet,
but I heard tough, I asked the papers cooperating to after the election.
I'm enough then to look into the boys' motives for or doing what he did.
Findley, have you found a fruit reself? You know the man?
Have you seen a temper? I haven't. Man as well, she'll see
the ad be long. Was there anything you want to temper? Just to
be in on the celebration with the rest of the family. Oh do we
have a bottle? Fully? I don't feel much like it. My dear,
where have you been? I wanted you to be with me today.
I I honor the mayor. Don't argue, no, I'd understand. Victory
celebration another glorious mandate from the people. Given the grand choice between two thieves,
they chose the one with the most experience couples. I think you'd better
leave Tampath, do you? I don't think so. I think it's fair
that the people have at least one representative presence. I'm sure you may not
be quite as stupid as I thought, as they thought, as they thought
I was too. Who has been talking to you? Still? Last night?
He called me and I went to his apartment, and that's the first
time. If that's what you're thinking, mister mayor not her talk. I'm
interested in myself. Thank you too, Patty. You know why you were
brought in on this lovely affair. So on, I'm putting two and two
together, expensibly to find Bill, who was kidnapped by you, Patty.
That's interesting, isn't it, mister man. But he wasn't held as a
hospite for your silence, mister man. He was held until after the election
because he had found out things about his father and Patty Flynn, his fine,
honorable father. He was threatening to go to the voters with it,
but it was just until after the election. After then I could have persuaded
him. He wouldn't have said anything. Then I could have reasoned with her
a little parental restraint until then, and if he talked later on, I
was your protection. Flynn was the villain, and I was looking for dill
On your behalf. Only I wasn't supposed to find him. Or maybe if
Bill talk too much, you would have tried to throw Flynn to the wolves
using me as evidence. Oh no, no, Packet, that wasn't it.
On saying only I found Bill, That's what disrupted them. Got to
understand, Temple that when you're in politics, you've got to make deals.
You know that why everybody make steals? It it's just business suits. You.
I understand that Bill didn't. No, Bill didn't. He never would.
He talked the poor don long suffering voters to pay the bill should have
more for their money than the choice between two thieves. And he was going
to say that they got it, Prudence, we can talk later about my
build. Why he did what he did. He killed himself. Do you
think he killed himself, Simon, no temper, He didn't. I talked
to him last night. He was a lot. He knew what he had
to do when he wanted to live. Who not clean, not packy Flynn,
good people. I stopped their mouse with dollar bills much cheaper in the
long run, and just as sure, which couldn't stop bills now Joe,
but then he wasn't a politician. But there, I trust you have a
good alibi for last night. Well, give me time and I can Jeff
one right. I think you'll need it. Bill wouldn't have let you into
his apartment. He was killed by somebody knew it was a good action put
on this morning there which she knew last night that I found Bill Packy would
have called you right away. Oh do you too sleep? You can't know,
not you, mister Mayor. You sent someone to reason with Bill,
your hatchet man, j Chase. You're very careful what you're saying. Temper,
I'll try to be thinner. Your reasoning didn't work. Bill probably ordered
you out for this gun. There was a fight, and you stop him,
then rigged it to look like it's your word against mine and the mayor's.
Finley's right. Your accusations are not only in bad taste, they're also
you. You your honor than me. You've killed him, Gnavy Finley pulled
the trigger. But it was you who killed him, killed him with the
years of neglect, of hypocrisy, of building up an idol of the people,
and then when he found out, you delivered him into the hands of
stubs. You stood aside in the Finley murder him, and now you're back
in. Finley said it son, you did. Maybe it's all advised me
not to turn the Finley over to the police immediately, But Towers, you're
throwing me to the world as well. After all, while I don't doubt
that it was or it might have been, unintentional on your part. Why
are very well done, Busts. This will all come out. It's really
a matter of adjusting ourselves. I never explained about politics before because I didn't
think it was necessary. Maybe if we go away for a while, we
look tires. I'll talk to you later. Play later. Looks likely better
hand up a fresh mirror for ourselves. Buster, Yeah, you're pretty sure
you can buy up another one in the open market. Huh. Act,
there are a lot more whether than came from sainting, and the money is
right in my podcast? How about the vote? The voting? Who are
they? Votings? People? The people eventually catch up with you. They
take them a while, but they will they always do. You have been
listening to another transcribe Adventure of a Saint, the robin Hood of Modern Crime.
Oh here is our Starvings and ladies and gentlemen. Can you imagine tons
of earth and stone crushing down on your home? Can you visualize flood waters
roaring through your front door? Can you imagine a forest fire sweeping your home
and possessions in its path? Could you and your family be stricken in an
epidemic so severe that it is a real disaster. It could happen somewhere in
the United States. This year, the Red Cross has helped thousands in dimmer
situations, and it will be called upon again this year to be prepared for
emergencies such as these. The Red Cross asks you each year for funds.
Won't you sit down right now while you think of it, look up the
address of your local Red Cross chapter and mail your contribution For nineteen fifty one.
This has been sent Brice, inviting you to join us again next week
at this same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night.
This script of The Saint was written by Dick Powell. An our cast you
heard Peggy Weber as Prudence and Samdre Gould as Eloise. John Brown was the
Mayor, Lamont Johnson was Bill Thinley was played by Whitfield Connor, Mister Flynn
was Ken, Christie ed Maxter's Buster, and Gerry Hasbans a bartender. The
Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Chatters, is a James L.
Saffiere production and is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent Price is soon to be
seen, co starring with Errol Flynn and Michelin Prell and William Marshall's production of
Bloodline. All you Saint fans will be glad to know that the same comic
books are on sale with all newsstands. You're Annoncer to Don Stanley three Times
being Good Times on NBC. Later today, there's another hour and a half
broadcast of radio's greatest show, The Big Show, starving Eddie Arnold, Got
Carson, Eddie Catter, Olivia de Haveln, Martha Ray, and many more.
You're MC I'm a Big Show, of course, is the Glamorous and
Unpredictable to Lula and Tonight Theater Gil Down the Air presents Light Up the Sky,
starting Joan Bennett, Stan Levine and Elma Ritter. Olivia de Haven visits
the Big Joe on MDC Welcome Back Well. An excellent performance by John Brown
as the Mayor. One of those really great radio actors, probably best known
for Plane Broadway on the Damon Runyon Theater and also playing Digger O'Dell on the
Life of Riley, and he played that role over television as well. And
another one of those episodes. Really, you know I mentioned this when we
did the episode set at the University. You didn't really see this sort of
biding social commentary in detective shows like The Saints to the same degree that you
heard in these couple episodes. So these are somewhat remarkable and we're getting some
of the very best Saint scripts as we're getting to the end of Vincent Price's
run on the Saint. While we do have five more episodes with Tom Conway
in the lead role, we actually only have remore Vincent Price episodes after this
week, So a series so far seems to be ending as far as Vincent
Price on a very strong note. All right, listener comments and feedback,
and we have a comment regarding episode sixteen eleven, the Formula for Death.
Stephen writes in on Twitter. Enjoyed this episode of The Saint. Lots of
surprises and it's always great when William Conrad shows up. Definitely, and we
will look forward to another episode of The Saint next week. Be sure and
join us next Monday for that Tomorrow it's an episode of the Adventures of Ellery
Queen. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives
dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one of
our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash radio detectives from boise Idahol.
This is your host, Adam Grahamson and off.