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Harry Joins the Circus

The Lives of Harry Lime · April 25, 1952 · 29 min · 2,941 words

The transcript of “Harry Joins the Circus”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast April 25, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Lives of Harry Lime free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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character originally created in the motion pictures the third man with the zip-air music by Anton Keira hundred bells in the eternal city of just finished announcing midnight of the door and hotel. I'm the third man in today's story Harry Lime joins the circuit.

Answer me this I come back to my hotel room and find you in position. How did you get here? Now, Sir Evan, you were pretty highly placed in British intelligence during the war for all I know you still are you want to something about getting into hotel rooms purely routine isn't it?

I did say. Well, sir. Not the secret papers or the plans for the fort or the crown jewel forever, I assure you. No, I'd just like a couple of minutes of your time. Look here.

I'm bone tired. And if you really wanted a point of a time... I have a photograph here. I'd like you to identify it. It's just a snapshot. Would you mind looking at it? Mm. Not very clear, is it?

No, but I think you can make out the face. Better to take her. I'll come to that. You recognize this man? It's very difficult to be sure, you know. Sometimes these snaps are awfully dissident.

Reverend, when was the last time you saw Hans Hessel? Hans Hessel, that's the name. I saw him only once. It was in 39. I don't think the exchange wore from a dozen words to him.

You have a reputation of knowing more than any man alive about the Nazi hierarchy. Faced any man on our side of the fence. How many to tell you, Hestle was? He had a lot of high sounding titles, but in the last year the war he was supposed to be the man closest to Hitler, isn't that right?

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