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we are into the nineteen fifty episodes of The Saints.
The original ur date on this one, January eighth, and
the title is The Cake That Killed.
Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Scene starting then Some Price.
Speaker 3: Based on Kelly by.
Speaker 2: Leslie Choker, A Loan's a Million from Books magazine Emotion.
Speaker 3: Picture Hold of Modern Crime.
Speaker 2: Now come to the radio, Darling Hollywood, brilliant and talented
actor Vim and fight as.
Speaker 3: The Faint Evening Sar and welcome to the Backs Thing.
I beg your pardon I said, welcome to the back
this friend. Oh well, I'm sure you would make a
very nice batchless friend. But all I had in mind
was the loaf of bread. The name of this bakery
is a bachelors thing. It is mister Vanderpoys. It was
a name like that because he was stated to the whimsical. However,
what is it? Time and temporary? Is anything wrong? No? No,
that's kind of just stopped outside. Oh what's that your cake?
My cake? But I wanted a loaf of bread. Well,
you love take it just at the time your mother
used to day. My mother used to take terrible case
battleships used in krank. Hello, mister Greg, we'll say hello
to Teger. Sure, mister Greg. Hello, Hello, you're customers leaving Tegger.
Oh yes, no, I might like it her customers leaving Martin.
I like you say, mister Gregg, he's done his way
right now. But I feel terribly self consciously and talked
about like a revolver Morton, a revolver loaded loaded. You're
frighting vent time leasing. You worried what, mister Gregg should
I should hate to make a liar of mister Greg.
You won't and keep on living, and I won't. I
like living and good night everyone. Martin. Hey, am, mister Greg.
He seems like a nice chat. He does one of
the finest. I think perhaps we owe him a ride.
He wouldn't bother I get cars if he takes a cab, Martin,
give the driver his instructions. Hen, take our friend here
for a long ride to the ocean. Hey, yeah, mister Gregg.
It's a beautiful night. He'll enjoy his dry Come on
mix this coming, don't your case? Oh yeah, thank you,
thank you, good night, good night, Yeah mixes. Yes, I
wouldn't toy with no boy scout ideas about doing a
good deed if I was you Nature Numbers of America
with my outfit. Just forget all about that blind back
in the store. Well, I'll try, but I can't promise
he was so you know what I mean, more than
yeah than you're a can he thank me? Get in?
Thank you? Hey, cowboy me, yeah you. My name happens
to be Benny, not cowboys, So it's Benny. The gent
in the back seat is going for a long drive
to the ocean like space. Oh shit, uh a long drive?
See him? Yeah him, But he's going for long drive
all right. Well, better be sure he don't change his
mind and come right back here otherwise, otherwise there'll be
one dead jet and also one dead Jitney jockey. Me. Yeah,
you knocket out of head and fast have been gone
at all? Benny? No, no, no, no, I don't know if
I should talk to you. We're gonna talk to me. Listen,
We're not going for that drive. What the fellow with
the gun and said, But it's more important. Ihe like
what he said. We're going for a drive to the
old but thank you. The girl back at the bakery,
she's in danger. We got to help her. I don't
like coil losses. I like better. Well, how would you
like a broken ye? Right or left? Bro? I wouldn't,
But that luck has got a gun. I'm closer to
you than he is. Okay, we're going back. That's that
sort of me and married man. Hey, the joints stop. Yes,
and we've been gone only a few minutes. You better
come with me. Sure, What have I got to lose
my life? And the door dark? All right, and the
door is locked now you see, everybody went home. We
ought to go home to your home. My wife don't
like there's something wrong. I can't see that with Haggy.
He's got a nice voice, but I think she was off.
See there, maybe another that's all backfiring. The bread is
backfiring that people inside. We've got to get in me.
I think a nice long rise of the ocean would
be nice. Ship. Hey, hey, hey, what are you dragging
a handkerchief out for? Are you gonna sneak? Now? I'm
gonna wrap it around my fist and mash the glass
and wang against that. And I just repealed it now
to reach in and yeah, still dark, Yeah, back room.
Perhaps there's a light shine on the floor over there.
Yeah that's it. Well wait, wait a minute, look before
you open that door. You didn't bulletproof play now, joint
sempsters and small room window probably overlooks an alley. Yeah,
the alleys empty.
Speaker 2: Too, you see, Like I told you, everybody went by by.
Speaker 3: And it's it's what he's saying. I under desk, look
for yourself, John. My name is Benny, like I should, oh,
one of the little players the love. He got tired
and laid down, and you haven't looked closely enough. Benny.
He's lying down, all right, but not because he's tired.
He's dead.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I follow the cops like you said, it
would be very glad to drop in.
Speaker 3: Rite away good find out anything. Morton's dead, Yeah, it's
much have ducked out the back window and there's nothing
more to be discovered here. Therefore you leave him. I'm afraid,
I am if the cops are not going to be
happy about it. They don't like me anyway, My wife
don't like me. I don't mean I can walk out
on that. Yes, because you see you married your wife,
I didn't marry the police. You've got something there, good
night and give the police. Sure, I'll give it from home.
Tell well it may be an article, aluse all optics
and such illusions that I will tell you I'm here,
I'm noticed. Should you be here in my apartment? Why not?
The explanation could leads to trouble. Then he wants to
January anywhere else to January? What brings you here? Very
nice apartment? Did catcher? Teggy? How did you get in here?
Speaker 1: Janitor?
Speaker 3: Let me? I told him I was your sister. I
have already told him I min nominally child. Then he's
probably to some No, he's nearly having low thoughts. Matter
of fact, that nicely having low thoughts too, but put
that I'm the high mind. It's tight. What out to
your little friend? I don't know what they got into
a terrible test argument? Uh huh so I went out
the back land any night. You really shouldn't have you
missed something I did? Definitely what did that mess down
at the end of the argument, nor law. Oh it
wasn't the hard way. He was shot not by me.
He was shot down. Oh, I'm sorry about that. Why
did you shoot in? Of course not? But you see,
mister Greg and Morton were fighting over me where they founded.
Speaker 4: If you don't believe me, may you become night fighting?
Speaker 3: Do? Then? Why who? We mustn't forget that we're brother
and sister and decided that well, if Greg and Morton
were fighting over you, then I does and believe you
were worth fighting over. And at the moment, is.
Speaker 5: That you a man?
Speaker 3: Or are you as well? I like cheese and then
supposed to get the whole thing. I just made a
mistake about you, which reminds me I made another missage,
which one that cake I gave you didn't belong to you.
I didn't ask for you. I know but I was
going to look intolus. I want the case to please
the case. That's the case, Simon, are you solemn? Now?
I'm trying to remember what happened to it? Simon. You
don't have the cake with you can finish? Simon, what
happened to that? Take have forgotten it? In the town care? Simon?
What kind of a clip was it? The kind was
a meeter? Oh you I'm going just drop badly. Goodbye?
Thank you. I hope the Canada tell your wife about
your sister, and I hope your wife.
Speaker 4: Knows you don't have a sister.
Speaker 3: I don't have a wife. Oh why hate you? That's
the gay? You're not well, I'm not come on, get
back inside. Oh it's gay, you know, gentlemen, I think
a fop. You're appointed, Yes I am. That's the one
with Richard shot Morton. As it happens, I didn't walk
back at doing your apart. Nothing important, because she's my
sisters real and her brother crazy he named Simon Temple.
Well not really, it's only that my etchings at the cleaner.
It's thank you, but it's this means the all right,
that you don't mind if I removed that Krishna fake Christians.
Therefore what I mean sorry because he hits you in
the pace of the fact, I can do even better
with this O. My hand hurt. Simon got a beautiful
right to the jaw. Thank you. I don't like to
do it very often. It still hide on the hands,
but i'd better get his guy. I all toick out
the HM with Simon, So thanks for bending over. I'm dead,
all right, all right? Oh Simon, the two headed boy.
He's begging see John Hutton.
Speaker 4: Singing, And I.
Speaker 3: Only already got a ringing in my head, both my head.
So he come in to call ring. Nobody was answering.
Nobody was answering either. No, my heads were answering. That's true.
But why did you come here? In the first and
the other I wondered how long it would be for
you identify you? You know, mister temper, you know me,
not in my present condition. You're the one is telling
me how you're an only child who you started wondering
about my sister. Yeah, yeah, well I suppose that's true too,
but she's gone true my sister. Never mind tell you
it's so, it's so, it's too bad. It's not so bad.
Maybe pad, you'd better run along, and the next time
she shows up out introducing it. It's not why I
am coming here. Pardon my aggression, but why are you
coming here? Why are you making saying things from the past.
Then you mean that like people are shooting rere, lots
of people waiting, lots of other people on the john
on the head and so you are holding in your head.
Oh yes, yes, I just got around and noticing it.
Evolve it's bag bad true. Oh that we'd better get
into the living room. And oh that's that twenty carrots,
Peggy ways to sun me. Hey, I'm slending. It's something
ends yeah, gun out of meaning someone's recently fired a
gun here? Oh good lord. Yeah, it's Greg on the
rud he is why here? How true? Two bullets in
his chest? He's dead? You shoot him? Oh, thanks for
the question mark at the end of that. No, I didn't.
I was knocked out. Greg was shot, and then the
revolval was putting my hand. Eventually I toos the police
were supposed to arrive, find Greg dead, the murder weapon
crawling with my fingerprints and it's best. Yeah, it's not good. Yeah,
but you do now, I don't know, of course, Peggy
wanted to know who the cab driver was. What cat
ve the one who took the cake? Mister tempray the police.
I had better not bother them. What you're going to do?
Find a murderer for them before they decide they've found
one in me?
Speaker 4: And hey, yeah, Red Devil Cats Company.
Speaker 3: That's what you wanted. That's what I wanted. Where you are?
Don't buy any yak?
Speaker 4: Why should I already got one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What can I do for you?
Speaker 3: Are you in charge here the garage and cad flee? Yeah,
you could say that, is that what you're looking for? Well,
actually I'm looking for Benny, one of your cab drivers. Benny,
what just Benny? Oh? And hey get out of here,
and sirs, I'm not joking. The license plate number of
the cabby was driving was X forty three seventy six.
No gag, no gang? Oh thank you? Ex see Yeah, yeah,
Denny Scott. Are is he in the garage? Nor no?
Out of his cab? Indeed you into? Yeah, tour is
over then then he's over to far. You can't say
that he might have got a fair out of the
suburbs or something or some place, would you mind if
I waited for him. What have you done? It's not
what he's done, it's important, it is what may be done.
I've been here for more than an hour. Yeah, then
he isn't new this late for boys, you devil cab company,
Golden speaking. But one of our cabs at park in
front of your driveways. Well, lady, you just tell the
drivers that's the drive. Lady, that's impossible, all right. So
you live an Ocean Drive Avenue. I know it's a
very nice neighborhood, so maybe number five three six is unusual. Nice,
But lady, our drivers don't leave their cabs in front
of driveways. It's a company rule.
Speaker 5: Good night.
Speaker 3: He do you like that? Hey, Bennie, Benny, I've already
thought of that. Five three six Ocean Drive Avenue, go
right out there. But oh Groken, could you tell me
why I might be a look at a cab five
hundred blocks and yes, stop now, Uh Denny's cab is here.
He loosened a driver hang around for a while. Okay, thanks,
there's no one in the back of the cab. Hey, Benny,
it's a lie. Whate is I didn't cut your drop. Furthermore,
I have a drink, and besides you, you ain't my wife? No?
And who hit me in my head? A friend of yours? Hat?
Oh no, my friends don't go on with me on
my head. You know it's too soft. It's wait a minute,
where's the blonde? Well, I don't have her on me.
I'm beginning to remember now. She hailed a cab, got in,
and then she started asking me about some cake. Yek
told me to pull over to the kite. She kept
talking about cake, and then she hit me on my head.
Speaker 4: And I don't even like cake.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. No, but Peggy didn't. Huh, I
meant the cake? What's with the cake? Me?
Speaker 5: I'm strictly the rye red tie.
Speaker 3: And Peggy remembering her figure. Oh, let us remember this
for a while, pickly a rye christicize therefore your oh man,
she didn't want the cake to eat? Why not? Because
you can't have your cake and eat it? Is that
supposed to mean something? Not to you here, Benny, and
don't buy it.
Speaker 4: Thanks, I already got a yacht.
Speaker 3: How did you know what I was going? I listened
to the redo. What do you think it's temper? Oh? Well,
you spend much of your time working in vestibute. Who loads.
I'm crazy about rest doing that nice. I'll leave you
to this one just a moment. That's not my elbow
in your rib and I don't tell me, let me
get that. You're to be a maxim. It's a revolver.
It makes a loud noise, and it's hires, but it's
all You wouldn't be happy if I shot you? Neither?
Would I? Well, why not take the gun out of
my ribs and make us both delirious with joy? I
shall as soon as I have my cake, your cake.
I am Hector Vanderpoor Hector, the owner of the Bachelor's
Friend Bakery. I'm cunning out of you to remember, and
I don't have your cake. You might be fitting. I
never said it's not crit neither it's murder. But I
shall murder you unless in your apartment, if you please.
Of course, it's just and the living room. See there's
no one here. Where are they? Who? We're being very naive,
aren't we? The diamonds, my friend, the diamond, the lovely
white diamonds. Dear Peggy gave you. Peggy must have forgot honor.
She gave you the cake, so she did the diamonds.
I'm pretending you don't know we're in that cake. But
why do diamonds make a cake taste better? Where are they?
You're rapidly losing your windy? You know why? Into interested?
I arrange the effects my good man, at great inconvenience
to myself, and with considerable efforts. I don't contend to
give them up. Well, how did they get into that case?
Peggy it with a fear. She decided to double cross me.
Therefore she hid the diamonds in the cake and slipped
the cake to you, right under Greggs and Morton. No,
they each had a nose to themselves. I find I'm
tiring of wits. I'm beginning not to be amused, non amusing.
Speaker 2: Therefore, you will either hand over the diamonds at once, or.
Speaker 3: Or else die. But I get over to the side
Templer near the windows. Well, I've already seen it. Well
did that gets you out of the way? And now
then if you're heading from my bedroom, now only the door,
Oh dear, well, I was only she was only being
insisted to me. And you're here because you're obviously working
with Templar for that nice work. If I can get it.
But Creig and Morton are both said, I shall miss
and I have nothing to do. I shall miss them,
but I won't miss you. Where are the diamonds.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You have perhaps a few seconds left of life. Oh
I'll give them.
Speaker 4: They're here in my bed.
Speaker 3: I don't hand out of that bag, but the diamonds.
Opportunity not to go in the problem, but take scared shot,
my son. I think I'm going to hitting. Room's cluttered
with bodies, and I say, Peggy, answer but the freshman.
I think everybody's going to live for a while. Yes,
instead a helping hand, and you're on your feet again.
I probably am, and I certainly did. However, I have
begun you. You're good? Show me answer? Why should I?
Because then you and you can keep the plan. You
get the constant, don't you? Mister Greg and Morton. The
police are going to want a murderer for them. Well
take you kill them. So if you forget, I'm being
a brother today. Look look, will you please please get
it over with now? Don't rush me. You. Greg and
Morton were jewelsy The bakery pads up front, the diamonds
and the cake were supposed to be Greg and Morton's
chair right, Yes, yes, but the Greg and Martin are
both dead. If you had the jewels, baby, all be
yours now, wouldn't they? Yes? If I had the jewels
and he wasn't supposed to know anything about them, that's
why you baked them into that case. We both know
all that. No, up until this moment, I didn't know
that the Jews had been based in the case. Therefore,
I shall not kidding. What if sufficiency the police are
going to take care of that. Well, go to the
police and missus Anders. But the Simon, I just don't Teggy,
you're adorable, You're a liar, and I don't mind explaining
Vanderpoort killed Greg and Morton. How did I know? Now
you're supposed to say, yes, yes, I'm how did you know?
And I'm glad you asked me. I knew because Vanderpoor
showed up at this apartment. How did he know about it?
Greg and Morton had followed you from the bakery. You
knew about it because I dold you my but vand
had no way of knowing him that secretly. He was
at the bakery at the time of Morton's death, and
here when Greg was good.
Speaker 4: Oh, and his motive was to keep all the jewels himself.
Speaker 3: True. You know I'm hungry. Would you mind getting that take? Now?
Where'd you heard it? In the bread box my kitchen? Yes?
Thank you, my love. You know you may be under
the impression that you're a crook, that your love huh
Vanderpoorn knew if you remember that the jewels weren't in
your bag before you opened it. How sinful he knew
you didn't have the jewels? How did he know that? People? Again,
he hadn't put the jewels in the cake at all?
Whose double cross had started before your attempt at hijacket
though there are no jewels in the apartment, Peggy, I
guess I'm not a cook cooking. Okay, I'll get the
cake and me can eat it. The important question now
being is the cake any good? Well?
Speaker 2: I'll here's our stars them from.
Speaker 3: Pine ladies and gentlemen. Our friend Peggy might have done
better had she chosen her friends more carefully. As a
matter of fact, she might have chosen her take more
carefully too, had she heeded the words of Margarety Thankster,
who said, oh take me friends, we should choose with
care not always the finest cake that stare is the
best to eat, and the Plain is friend is sometimes
the finest one in the head, which is instant pricee
inviting you to join us again next week at the
same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good Night.
Speaker 2: The w script of the Plaints is written by Lewis
did dark Assen for the Betty lou Gerson, Peter Lee,
Daneal Hurlahey, Larry Dobson, and.
Speaker 3: Ed von Els. The music was composed and conducted by
Harry Zimmermann. Well Saints based on characters created by last plays.
Speaker 2: Talking Us the James al Safer production, and is directed
by Thomas A. Mctivity Crimson prize to someone to be
seen in Robert Lickert's production of The Baron of Arizona.
All you Saint fans will be glad to know about
the Plaints comic books.
Speaker 3: Going on at broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: One thing that's kind of unusual about this era of
the Saint is that we keep meeting all of these
random Cabby characters. Now, of course, you do have random
cabbys show up during the Golden age of radio on
a whole variety of programs, but it seems like we
just have a very large selection of Cabby's, you know,
being these really important characters, often as sidekicks and once
as a villain. And anyway, we turned to listener comments
and feedback, and there's a comment on Patreon from Jeff
and he writes, Vincent Price loved acting of all sorts,
so he agreed to a Brady brawnch appearance in nineteen
seventy two. He just wanted to work and didn't turn
his nose up at fun opportunities. And this is definitely true.
Vincent Price just did a lot of different programs, and
if you watch any amount of classic television or film,
you'll run into him, and probably later than you would expect,
as he continued to work late into the eighties and
even a little bit into the nineties. He passed in
nineteen ninety three. But he wide variety of different work,
and it means even if you're not into the horror
genre he's most famous for, he left a very wide
mark on popular culture. I saw him on an episode
of The Nearly Forgotten Story show from the seventies to
Snoop Sisters, and he had worked on programs I not
really like The Brady Bunch, but Trapper John MD and
he played King Herod in a version of the Nativity
Story that was made a direct video in the mid
nineteen eighties. But by being out there and being such
a part of the entertainment industry, he also got some
really strong parts that many remember Professor Radigan in The
Great Mouse Detective. And of course he was the narrator
in the Thriller music video by Michael Jackson. So an
incredible career with so many memorable roles throughout it.
Speaker 3: All.
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Speaker 3: Second, how about a fatment before they luck yep?
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll tell you the whole suit, but you won't
put it. I'm guilty. I'm guilty because I'm nobody. I'm
guilty because somebody wanted to get somewhere. In order to
get there, he'd put his feet right in my face,
steps on me, sent me up for life to get
where he wants to get here. I'd like to see
your printing.
Speaker 3: Freedom of the Press.
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