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Speaker 4: Oh oh, hello, Templar's mortuary.
Speaker 5: Mister Simon Templar.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately little Ton is calling. What time is it at
the sound of.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to give that information. A
Littleton is.
Speaker 4: Calling, all right, put him on one moment.
Speaker 5: Players. Hello, Hello, is this Simon Templer?
Speaker 4: Yes it is.
Speaker 5: My name is Shirley Gray. Please I need you.
Speaker 4: Yes, go on, Hello, Sammy, who are you talking to? Oh?
Speaker 6: Well, I was just calling you at the theater, you know,
I was with the cops. Hang it up, all right, Hello,
I'm sorry I bothered you.
Speaker 5: Sammy just got back.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 5: Hello, your party has hung up, sir, so they have.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Shirley Gray. Shirley Gray, Oh of course.
Speaker 7: Dude, dude, I'm a side lieutenant.
Speaker 4: Schwartz.
Speaker 7: Guess who Oh no, Templar, No, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 4: You hate me, don't.
Speaker 5: You, Templar.
Speaker 7: This is a homicide bureau. I am up to the
cleft of my rugged chin and work. I got maniacs
confessing to murders that never happened. I got murderers caught
in the act. Who say who?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 8: And no?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 9: I got Temblar. Yes, Lieutenant, Templar, you got something to say?
Say it anyone for Badminton Tamplar. Okay, Lieutenant, I just
want some information.
Speaker 7: Read the newspaper's, Templar. They whip up the crime waves.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 4: Well, then, what do journalism's juvenile delinquents have to say
about events in the city of Littleton today?
Speaker 7: You don't know.
Speaker 4: I couldn't even get well. Stay happy, go back to bed, Lieutenant.
I'll write a letter to the times.
Speaker 7: Okay, Templar, have it your way. You ever hear of
a band leader named Terry Richard?
Speaker 4: Of course, you mean the one they call the real
gone guy.
Speaker 7: I hope to hold your half noe, Templar. He's real gone,
all right, so gone he's dead. He was strangled.
Speaker 4: Oh well, thank you, lieutenant, for your first exclusive.
Speaker 7: Look, if you're a figure in a bud in Templar,
I wouldn't now you know you remember Lieutenant Ruggles, old.
Speaker 8: Old meat head.
Speaker 7: Well he is now chief of police at Littleton. You'd
better stay out of his way.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't dream of getting in his way, or would I?
Speaker 7: I am not kidding, Templar. Terry Richards was a real
big name. Ruggles wants this one for himself. You get
in his way, you'll have you so deep in the
pokey they'll be feeding.
Speaker 5: You with a pea shooter.
Speaker 7: Rep Hey, on second thought, is that.
Speaker 4: Bad, Lieutenant? Yeah, Tampler, did someone spike your bubblegum this morning? Yes? Camp, goodbye, pal,
don't sneeze into the breeze. I'd like to go backstage, please,
mister Dorman.
Speaker 10: It's possible to get there if your cult will development
is at a certain level.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm fond of Montreal.
Speaker 10: I collect Americana. I am fond of portraits of those
men who will become our president. I am especially cheered
by portraits of Lincoln are done, of course, on fine paper,
in black, bordered and shaded in hues and shades of green,
which one finds so cool and comforting.
Speaker 4: Your taste is admirable. It happens that I here you
are a perfect specimen a pass fraind Thank you so much. Oh,
mister Templar, you know me. You expected me. Miss Gray
hoped for you as she described you. Still it cost
me five dollars.
Speaker 10: Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and miss Gray is in her
dressing room. First corridor to your wreck and first daughter.
Speaker 4: To the left, or thank you? I say, tell me something.
Is this the same Shirley Gray who sings pallid so wonderfully?
Speaker 10: The same? But she sings them no more? Merlow rouley elbaudy.
Speaker 4: You swallowed something bop.
Speaker 10: That's what the great Terry Richards played.
Speaker 4: Oh, I gather you were not her fan of the
late mister Richards.
Speaker 10: The man who knocked him off was a hero.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 10: Miss Gray is the only nice person in the band.
Take care of her, will you? You think she needs
taking care of? There's a killer around, mister Templar. Of
course she'll be just after another musician. It's all right.
Speaker 4: Bettilla's gonna hate you in the morning.
Speaker 10: He wouldn't dare A first corridor to your right, first
daughter that left, mister Templar.
Speaker 4: Miss Gray.
Speaker 11: Oh you frightened me.
Speaker 4: You're Simon Templar, Secretary Shirley Gray Fanclub Cell three, Group two,
currently underground. It took chores.
Speaker 11: Oh, mister Templar, I'm so glad.
Speaker 4: Who is Sammy?
Speaker 11: He's what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Well, all the way down here, I've been asking myself
why would Shirley Gray call me? And after calling, why
would she hang up just because a man named Sammy
entered the room? You see, I'm just the old curious one.
Speaker 11: Well, I want you to do one thing for me.
Find out who killed Terry Richards.
Speaker 4: That's a job for the police.
Speaker 11: Is well, they might get the wrong person.
Speaker 4: Sammy, for instance, they.
Speaker 11: Might not find out in time. Somebody else might get killed.
Speaker 4: The doorman seems to have had the same thought. What
brings it on?
Speaker 6: Well, no one knows why Terry was killed. Nobody liked him,
but nobody hated him enough to kill him. This is
almost the work of a maniac. There was no reason
for it.
Speaker 4: You mean no one was ambitious, jealous, frustrated.
Speaker 11: We don't talk like that.
Speaker 4: You're hiding something from Simon.
Speaker 6: Please don't joke. I found Terry's body, I called the
police and they said he must have been strangled with
a stout thin cord. But well, well they're wrong about
it and about everything else. He was strangled with it.
Speaker 11: Watch this cop, Sammy, This is Simon Templar, the Saint
Simon alone.
Speaker 8: Shirley, get out, Templar.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to know you, too, friendly one.
Speaker 8: Look, Templar. We're being held in this offbeat berg and
we can't get out. I'm spending all my time at
the jail answering the silly questions of these cornpall cops.
And now you. I've got rehearsals to don't know when
you get out.
Speaker 11: Oh no, Sammy, No, not rehearsals already. Terry hasn't even been.
Speaker 4: Yes, Sammy, why are you so anxious to get in rehearsal.
Speaker 8: We've got a contract for a concert tour. That's what
we were doing in this corn palace, warming up for
the tour. The band's got to be in shape in
a week, and the contract is canceled. No contract, no tour,
no tour, no band, no band. We're on a panet,
you see. No, Just where do you fit in? I
like money, I eat it.
Speaker 4: It's cheaper than food these days.
Speaker 8: Besides, if we make out the agency is giving me
the band. I got it coming. It's like Terry had
what happened coming to him?
Speaker 11: Oh, Sammy, Well.
Speaker 12: Terry was a slave and.
Speaker 4: You know it. You are a man of grace and charm, Sammy.
Speaker 8: Send him away, surely, get him out of here.
Speaker 4: Gentle psychotic? Isn't he? As we jazz lovers say, this
routine is murder?
Speaker 11: Well I'll talk to him. Will you wait for me? Simon?
Speaker 4: Need you ass.
Speaker 12: I come in? Mister templar?
Speaker 4: Of course? Say how did you know me?
Speaker 12: I talked Shirley into calling you. My name's Dick Carvin.
Speaker 4: You're with the band.
Speaker 12: All I do is beat these lousy drums? You ever
hear that joke?
Speaker 4: To the point of nausea? Who killed Terry Richards?
Speaker 12: I don't know. The cops thought Shirley might have because
she found him, But it wasn't Shirley. I had her
call you so you could prove it with someone else.
Speaker 4: What was she doing in his dressing room? Was it
her habit to go there? The carveth dear boy, if.
Speaker 12: You want me to help, okay, okay, lay out for
four bars and I'll give you the score. I understood
Terry Richards. I didn't like him any more than anybody else,
but I did understand him. I've been with him since
the year one. Sammy has two only he played a
three year job with the army.
Speaker 4: Sammy called Terry a slob.
Speaker 12: Yeah, before the war, Sammy and Terry started this band.
Terry fronted at Samy arranged in, conducted rehearsals. A man
sent him greetings, and he went into the paratroops and
came back top and hard. I thought he'd killed Terry
when he found out Terry cut in for one hundred
percent of the band. I remember his hands.
Speaker 4: Were just a tady. Did he come back with Terry?
Speaker 12: Terry was up here mac number one. He was willing
to pay for Sammy's talent and pay good. That's the
only way could keep anybody, including Shirley Kid. It wasn't enough.
She had to work for him. She had to go
along with him a little way if she wanted her job,
and she did.
Speaker 4: Why why she used to be the biggest name on
radio without Terry Richards? How did she ever become a
band singer?
Speaker 12: Canary is a hard to figure. Maybe that's the question
you've got to answer.
Speaker 4: Is Terry Richards seems to have been a dismal kind
of snail. Well.
Speaker 12: I admired him, mister templar, for one reason. He knew
how to compete, fight, cheat, steel hip, below the belt,
but stay on top. He had one philosophy and had
fit this world. Great hooray for me and nuts to you.
If I could have had that, I'd have done all right.
I'd have been bigger than Terry Richards.
Speaker 4: But I haven't got it.
Speaker 12: I admired the man who had.
Speaker 4: This has been an enchanting recital of the foibles of humanity.
But who killed Terry Richards?
Speaker 12: I wish you'd find out?
Speaker 4: Why are you so anxiously?
Speaker 12: Because without Terry this band can still go places. Oh
we needed him like the met needs common Lombardo. Now
Samuel'll be in charge, don't you see, And he'll give
everybody a chance, even me.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 12: But Terry wouldn't give any of us a chance to shine?
We always had to feature his guitar. What we got
a real gone arrangement of temptation, just Me on tempts
and Shirley on voice, real gone, real gone. But Terry
wouldn't even less.
Speaker 4: I've heard of progressive music as a sample. I'd say
it hasn't gone quite far enough. It's still in the
range of hearing.
Speaker 12: A mister template, Shirley, come on, let's go this wait
the green room.
Speaker 4: Good head on, Shirley, hout of the way. Call the cops.
Speaker 11: Hurry, Oh, mister templar. Oh are you all right, Simon?
Speaker 4: Oh yes, Angel, I'll be all right.
Speaker 12: Hey, I thought you were dance she'd just fainted a templar?
Speaker 4: Did you call the police? Dick of between.
Speaker 12: Giving her smelling salts and bathing your head, I haven't
met much of a chance.
Speaker 4: What is they say? And there who done?
Speaker 12: It's happened if somebody slugged you from behind and pushed
me through the door and slammed it.
Speaker 4: O my neck. Wo there must have been a rabbit punch.
Speaker 11: Do you want a doctor, Simon.
Speaker 4: Dear heart, I want an answer. By the way, what
did happen to you? Well?
Speaker 11: I argued with Sammy for a while and then I
came over here and I picked up Sammy's battonment. This
was wrapped around it and.
Speaker 4: Wait did I stand up? Oh? That floor was so comfortable.
What is this thing?
Speaker 12: It's an e string from a guitar. Huh, it's what
was used to kill Terry, probably from.
Speaker 4: His own guitar. Probably someone had a sense of poetic justice.
A guitarist string for a guitarist. Let me see that thing?
Speaker 11: Wow, what's the matter?
Speaker 4: I pulled it tight? It cut into my hands. He
wit a minute? Did you know Terry was killed with
an e string? Shirley, Well, it.
Speaker 11: Was beside him when I found him.
Speaker 6: Between the time I called the police and the time
they got here, someone had taken.
Speaker 4: It, Shirley, My sweet Emily post has it that? And
one is in possession of evidence or information about evidence,
One tells the cops, or one suffers. One does. I
was afraid, but you see you are more afraid now.
This thing is a warning for Sammy, for you, for everybody.
By the way, where is Sammy? Why didn't he come
running when he heard his screen?
Speaker 12: Same reason? I know she was in the green room
and not his dressing room. His room is soundful.
Speaker 4: I move that. We adjourned to Sammy's little cell and see, no,
surely you're not going to be stubborn.
Speaker 11: All right, let's go.
Speaker 4: Something tells me we've got to break it down.
Speaker 12: Oh Sammy, all right?
Speaker 4: Dick. Now the cops are cops. We take care of Sammy.
Speaker 13: I hope, mister Templer.
Speaker 10: I have answered the questions of the police. I have
answered the questions of my wife. Now you want me
to answer your question.
Speaker 4: My friend is doorman of this house of culture. You
are in a most enviable position. You see who goes
and who comes. Now let me review the bidding the
famous Terry Ritchley, infamous Terry Richard. Nonetheless, he was killed
a bumbling, murderous toad came within a minute of killing Sammy.
To day the same wart brained idiot delivered a rabbit
punch to my neck. I only want to be sure
it was no outside force. Do you follow me.
Speaker 10: As the animal at one of the acro bench, mister Templar.
But I must repeat, no insidious force has come through
these bottles unless that force be you. And you should
hear Chief Ruggles on the subject of you police.
Speaker 4: You don't like the police, mister Templar.
Speaker 10: The police were put on this earth for one reason,
so that so called musicians could arise in the morning
with the assurance that somewhere on earth there was someone
lower on the scale of human beings.
Speaker 4: You could be censored for that. Tell me, are you
here all the time?
Speaker 10: Mister Templar. There are matters one does not discuss with
just any stranger.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, oh, to say, I'm sure. I simply want
to learn who could be a murderer, that's all. It's
a simple want. Some people want food. I want a murderer.
Some people want a new apartment. I want a sneaky,
soft pedaled thug who could walk so softly he would
be unheard, and who would slug me from behind.
Speaker 10: Even I could do that, mister Templar. I wear sneakers.
They're relaxing. I could come upon you so quietly, so
you could. I'll give a thought. Thank you so very much.
It was nothing, mister Templar, I know nothing.
Speaker 4: You're feeling better, Sammy, Templar, You're still a wrong You're
not happy with me, Sammy.
Speaker 11: Sammy, Please, if it weren't for mister Templar, you might
be dead.
Speaker 8: All he hadn't shown up, it wouldn't have happened. He
got a hold of something and scared somebody.
Speaker 4: That's all. Whom did I frighten? Sammy? You?
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: It occurs to me that if I were a person
so willed and so frightened, I could hold a wire
about my neck and induce unconsciousness.
Speaker 8: You've got rocks in your head, Templar. Why don't you
leave it alone?
Speaker 4: Let the cops because somebody slugged me, Sammy, and I'm
very sensitive about such things.
Speaker 11: Why don't you two stop fighting? This is serious. Somebody
else is going to get hurt.
Speaker 8: Yes, and I hear by nominate Simon, Templar.
Speaker 4: I must decline because of the pressive business. Look instead
of us arguing like this, why don't you go rehearse?
Speaker 8: Oh great, now he's going to run the band too.
Speaker 4: No, but at least to be out of my hair
for a while. Sammy has an abrupt personality. Well, Shirley, we're.
Speaker 11: Alone, Simon. Are you getting anywhere?
Speaker 4: The answer to that would have to come from your
own lovely lips. You're very sweet, Shirley, to see you
as you are now? As well as they say in
the soap operas, it does something to me here.
Speaker 6: I suppose whoever it is gets away with it. Suppose
he succeeds next time, kill Sammy or me.
Speaker 4: Tell me, Shirley, did you kill Terry?
Speaker 11: What did you say?
Speaker 4: I said? Did you kill Terry and try to kill
Sammy Simon. I'm very rude. My analyst tells me, no,
never mind, my analyst, I hate him. You didn't answer
my question.
Speaker 11: No, I didn't kill Terry. You satisfied eminently.
Speaker 4: Tell me something, Shirley. A couple of years ago you
were going great guns as a soloist. I remember reading
something about a big recording contract. I had your recording
of April in Paris. It was one of the best
things I ever heard.
Speaker 11: I'm still getting royalties on it.
Speaker 4: How is it that you came to work with a band?
What happened that you gave up your contracts and your
big career? Why do you stay with this band?
Speaker 11: Is my career pertinent?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I do know that we're going
to have this cleared up very soon.
Speaker 11: Oh do you really think so?
Speaker 4: I've got something right on the tip of my mind.
Can't quite get hold of it, but I will. And
if we can clear it up in time and Sammy
has the band in shape, you'll be hitting the road,
so you'd better be in shape. But why don't you
go to your dressing now dressed? Huh? Go ahead, it'll
do you good well.
Speaker 11: All right, if you say so.
Speaker 4: I'll walk with you. Is that the idea of Dick's
about temptation going to work out? Really?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Simon, I'm not too crazy about it,
but maybe it will, I hope.
Speaker 11: So for Dick's sake, Dick say yes.
Speaker 6: You know, every time Sammy wrote an arrangement so Dick
would have some breaks, Terry would insist that it be rewritten.
Speaker 11: For his guitar.
Speaker 6: Poor Dick would just sit up and keep a rhythm,
as he said, all he does is play those lossy drums.
Speaker 4: Yes, it might be a break for Dick at that.
He's a nice fella. He's got something coming, I should suppose.
Speaker 11: Well, this is where I drop off. What are you
going to do?
Speaker 4: Oh? I don't know, catch a murderer?
Speaker 14: Maybe?
Speaker 12: Hello Dick, Oh hello, mister template.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, don't stop playing. Go right ahead, Dick.
Speaker 12: Oh, I'll just pass the time of day. Have any luck.
Speaker 4: And I'm about to step out of the store window
and call for Philip Marlowe.
Speaker 12: Well, if there's anything I can do, or any of
the fellas for that matter, I know they'll help.
Speaker 4: I thought they were all happy to see you or
laid my stroke go. That was the impression I had.
Speaker 12: Now, Sammy might give you that impression or that whacked
up doorkeeper out there, But I don't think anybody likes
to see somebody murdered, especially when they know the killer
is still in the loose.
Speaker 4: Mm. But you fellas seem to be taking it in stride.
Speaker 12: Some people, Yes, some people know me.
Speaker 4: I'm worried it would take it easy. Now, say, you
certainly need a lot of paraffernia in your trade.
Speaker 12: Yeah, cymbals, TIMPs, bongo tambourines.
Speaker 4: What are these things?
Speaker 12: Oh? These these are claves?
Speaker 4: What are they for?
Speaker 12: Sut a rhythm? Latin American stuff?
Speaker 15: Hey, let me show you see. Very simple, Yes, indeed,
very simple. Yeah, this is quite an array of stuff
for one who just beats the drum.
Speaker 12: That's all I do, beat these lousy drums.
Speaker 4: Well, I have to do some more snooping, Dick. I'll
see you're.
Speaker 12: Out, okay, mister templar.
Speaker 4: Lousy drums?
Speaker 8: Hey, what's your idea bussing in here?
Speaker 4: Amy? I've got two questions for you if you're interested
in finding Terry Richard's killer. I'm not number one. You
were in the paratroops, Yes, I was in the para
number two. Did you make patrols behind the lines where
you had to kill a man with your own hands?
You scuff?
Speaker 8: I asked your question, did you That's my answer. I
get out of here, and if I set eyes on
you again, I'll kill me.
Speaker 4: Sammy, get out. You know, I think i'd feel much
better if you'd take my head and your lap and
bathe my face. I hadn't feel much better.
Speaker 6: Oh Simon, stop it. You know you shouldn't have just
barged in on Sammy like that. He has a temper
and he doesn't like to be reminded of Well, it
just should have been more diplomatic.
Speaker 4: I was diplomacy, my dear girl, is not always a
matter of kid gloves.
Speaker 6: Oh Simon, why don't you give it up? I'm awfully
sorry I got you into this.
Speaker 4: I'm not at all. It's well worth everything just to
sit here and have your sympathy.
Speaker 11: And he surely, Simon, what's the matter?
Speaker 4: But dressful round the neck of it?
Speaker 11: An east, Simon?
Speaker 4: I think I know what it means now, all of it?
Speaker 11: Why me? Do I know something? What is it?
Speaker 4: No? You don't know anything, but you've done something? Yes, yes,
it figures.
Speaker 11: Oh, Simon, I don't cry.
Speaker 4: Sureley, tell me, did Sammy get someone to take Terry's
place with the guitar? No good, first to take care
of that for him, But second, you're going to make
sure the public address system is warmed up in the
wings so I can use it. And third you're going
to tell Sammy and Dick you want to run through temptation.
Speaker 11: Oh no, Simon, I couldn't.
Speaker 4: Make like that tired old gag. You know, the show
must go on. It's one of the most important things
in your life. And I want you to do just
as I say, or I'm afraid you're not going to
have a life to have important things happen an in.
Speaker 8: Off Kenn's taking once and then forget it. No, com
it's up to you'll dick tat on.
Speaker 4: The down leabe you ready? Master? Yeah? Okay, now remember
what you.
Speaker 5: Shirley yam.
Speaker 16: Uk I was alone. I should have known you were temptation.
You smile, luring me on. My heart was gone you temptation.
Speaker 4: Okay, Maestro, it's yours.
Speaker 8: Come from.
Speaker 4: What's you got away from me? Timper, I'll kill you.
You're killing Daser over Son all over what.
Speaker 8: Are you trying to Temple, trying to lost up the
whole plan?
Speaker 4: The music you play hasn't lost up your band? How
could I possibly do, Simon, I'll clip you.
Speaker 11: How could it? I don't understand.
Speaker 4: We understand, don't we, Dick, what you're talking about, Sammy?
If you will call the cops, I'll tell Dick a
little story about a man who was very ambitious, who
wanted to be big and important, like Terry Richards, who
didn't want anybody to get in the way of his ambitions,
who admired selfishness and ruthlessness. It's about the story. Will
tell his nitty.
Speaker 12: Oh I do is beaty loudly?
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't bit she's loving dum.
Speaker 11: But why did he try to kill me? Simon?
Speaker 4: Dear, just remain as you are, Simon.
Speaker 11: You should know.
Speaker 4: No, I do know. He killed Terry because, as you said,
Terry took all the licks. Would you say that Dick
thought belonged to him? Then he got real ambitious. He
wanted to be like Croup of his own band, and
he tried to kill Sammy. Then he could fight for
the leadership of a band that was already great.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's so awful.
Speaker 4: Dear heart and a woman.
Speaker 11: It's so wonderful, Simon. Oh, but when did you.
Speaker 4: First suspect that you are wonderful?
Speaker 11: No, that Dick was the killer.
Speaker 4: I was puzzled that someone had used a guitar string
for the purpose of strangling Terry Richards. It cuts into
the hands and there's no purchase unless it's wound around
the hands, and that gives no wire for strangulation. Then
I came across the Klavi's and Dick's drums, and everything
fell into place.
Speaker 6: I see, you know, I remember when Sammy got back
from the army and we had a party and he
got drunk and told us how they used to kill
the enemy with wire, the ends of which were tied
to batons to give them.
Speaker 11: What did you say, purchase.
Speaker 4: Shirley, You're making Simon sound anticlimactic, and that's not in
the contract.
Speaker 11: Oh. I'm sorry, Simon. You really did a good job.
Speaker 4: But just here's your idea.
Speaker 11: Oh, Simon.
Speaker 4: Well, in any event, Dick remembered Sammy's tales of the paratroops.
He tied the ends of the guitar strings to the
klavi's he used for Latin American rhythms, and then he
approached his victims from the rear, looped the wire over
their heads and curtains.
Speaker 11: Oh, how terrible.
Speaker 4: It was very clever. When you screamed and fainted and
we came to you, he stepped behind me and slugged me.
Then he ran to make his pass, it killing Sammy.
He wasn't clever enough to take it time and make
it thorough.
Speaker 11: I think it's so gruesome.
Speaker 4: I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 11: Oh Simon, your cat, But I do.
Speaker 4: The more I explain, the more you shiver, and the
more you shiver, the closer you're coming. It's what theerful?
Speaker 11: Will you please listen to me for a moment.
Speaker 4: No, dear, you're upset. You'll be going back to the
city now, you know. I think that monster Chief Ruggles
will release all of you. Why don't you have dinner
at my place, just you and me. You like my place.
I have a fine collection of modern arts, especially Picasso.
Speaker 11: You're inviting me to come up and see your picassos.
Speaker 4: My dear, when one is charming as you comes to
my place, it's not to see the picassos, but the
handwriting on the wall.
Speaker 8: What are you doing with my wife? Template you're my wife.
Speaker 11: Oh how depressing, Simon. That's what I've been trying to
tell you. You asked why I stayed with this band
and gave up my other career. Well it's because Sammy
and I have been secretly married for six months.
Speaker 4: Oh no, well that's why.
Speaker 11: I called you. I was afraid when the police found up.
I think that Sammy killed Jerry because of jealous.
Speaker 8: I would still like to know, Templar, what you were
doing with your armor on my wife.
Speaker 4: I Oh, I was consoling.
Speaker 8: I've got some consolation for you.
Speaker 4: As Emmy. I wouldn't advise violence. I'm ready this time violence.
You've got me all wrong. Shep ruggles. Sammy, how what
do you want?
Speaker 8: You're still looking for template? What else here is?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, Temper, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 8: Say goodbye to the nice man.
Speaker 11: Surely, goodbye, Simon, and thanks nice weeks.
Speaker 8: We'll meet again over my dead body. I'll try to
arrange it.
Speaker 3: You have been listening to another adventure of the Saint
the robin Hood of Modern Crime, and I'll here's our
starve and some fright.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen in tonight's cast. You heard vivid Janis
Larry dobkin Loo, Merril J. Edwards and Bill Johnstone. This
is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next
week at this same time for another exciting adventure of
the Saint. Good Night. The scripts of.
Speaker 3: The Saint was written by Charles Glenn. Music was composed
and conducted by Von Dexter. The Saints, based on characters
created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L. Safier production
and is directed by Helen mac. Vincent Price is soon
to be seen in the Universal International picture Kirk and
Call at Cactus Creek, And all you Saint fans will
be glad to know that the Saint comic books are
on sale.
Speaker 12: At all you stand.
Speaker 4: Your announcer is Don Stanley. Next it's Sam Spath.
Speaker 3: Then Summer Symphony on NVCAT.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, another story with a musical setting, though
this time more in a swing setting, and the Saints
learned an important lesson to really be sure of a
woman's marrible status before making advances to be fair to
Simon and everyone else. It really was an honest mistake.
You can understand. She wouldn't have been wearing a wedding
ring even after the bandleader was killed. You wouldn't necessarily
want that you had this situation where you were secretly married,
as that would tend to play suspicion on Sammy. But nevertheless,
Sammy was not amused. But I'm not too hard on
him because of the way the Saint asked that question
about his wartime service. Now, of course there are exception
but as a general rule, most return veterans did not
want to talk too much about their experiences at war.
In fact, I've even heard radio program where they've had
PSAs advising people don't ask them about the war, don't
ask them to provide details. So for the Saint to
ask that question that way, yeah, it was a bit tactless.
Of course, he was investigating a murder, but from Sammy's perspective,
he doesn't actually have any capacity or business in being there,
So to have this unwelcome interloper asking such a question
of him, and he was probably asked about it by
the police, probably in a more tackful way, be hard
to ask in a less tackful way. He certainly didn't
feel obligated to answer to Simon Templar, and I can
imagine that's part of the reason why he had no
trouble turning him over to Chief Ruggles. One thing I
will say about Chief Ruggles is it's an unusual name
because there was actually a fairly famous character actor by
the name of Charles Ruggles. Ruggles was known for quite
a few comic roles, which cuts against the image of
the chief that they're trying to project, of this hard
nosed small town cop. Even for the era. A bigger
challenge was that there was actually a television sitcom called
The Ruggles in which Charles Ruggles played the main character.
So it's an unusual name and an odd one to
give to a kind of hard nosed, walk on police chief.
The song Temptation had a wide variety is one of
the more popular songs of the era. It was written
by Nashio, Herb Brown, and Arthur Freed and published in
nineteen thirty three. There were versions done by Bing Crosby,
so many cover versions, and that's not even counting all
of the radio singers who took a turn with this song.
Because when they were doing live music on radio, you
would often have the rather than having like individual music,
you would have the very talented show singer sing out
you know, whatever song was most popular. So this is
one I've heard quite a few versions of and I
thought it was fairly well done for this episode. Listener
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love Vincent Price, something about the man even though he
went to Yale to be able to do Shakespeare and
avenge his wife from the horrible doctors, the non terrible doctors.
Love me that Vincent Price. Well, even so many years
after his death, he remains a recognized and cultural icon,
and glad to be able to feature him on the podcast.
All right, Well, now it's time to think our Patreon
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Speaker 17: Now, let's see you want the other member of the gang.
I told you there was four. That's me and Marilyn
Ketch and the fourth. The fourth is Noonan seventy five
twenty five.
Speaker 4: Noonan. We call him that on account of that's the cudio,
so we know, we know.
Speaker 18: Come on, well, now, if I can make a suggestion
to you, I think this is going to surprise you.
I'd pick up Noonan on the robbery, but for TenneT
twenty at least. But if you stop here, you'd be
missing a bed.
Speaker 4: How's that?
Speaker 17: What je happened to remember? Kind of a jeweler by
the name of Emmanuel Liebman.
Speaker 10: What about Leibman?
Speaker 4: Well, nobody thought about Noonan and Liban today.
Speaker 17: Now, now I can't say exactly that Noanan shot him,
since I didn't say him to it. Only well I
asked him, mister Tenney's seventy five twenty.
Speaker 8: Five, well known for the way he keeps squeezing the trigger.
Speaker 4: You're saying Nolan did it?
Speaker 17: Well, all I know is the morning gott Chowdren like
fifteen twenty minutes after it, and I got a phone
call from knowing it and he says I'm in trouble
fed cut so I says, compile, I'll help you.
Speaker 4: No, you helped him, all right, you helped him. Fine?
Speaker 17: What kept my mouth shut sixteen months without saying a word,
didn't I?
Speaker 4: What's somebody? I don't like my testimony? Mister? All right?
All right?
Speaker 12: I want a statement on all this car signed.
Speaker 3: I don't want you suddenly discovering I know he broke
your arm.
Speaker 4: To get it out of here. It's fair dirty.
Speaker 8: I might be a story, but nobody says I haven't
went back on my word.
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