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The Lives of Harry Lime · January 4, 1952 · 28 min · 3,701 words
The transcript of “Cherchez La Gem”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast January 4, 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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Orson Weld as the third man dives of Harry Lyme. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture the third man with the Zither music by Anton Cara. You may always say money isn't everything. That's what I say. I mean it too.
In fact I've always considered a generous basis for a deal. I take the money and you take the rest. Once in that you don't agree. This story don't began on a boat. There was a girl involved, surprise.
My doctor always tells me there's nothing like a quiet sea voyage to put you on your feet. My experience is just the reverse. Besides the sea, always makes me sick. Orson Welles, as Harry Lime, the third man in Cherche, La Gem.
It all began on a slow boat to China, and I mean a slow boat to China, just like the song only without the music. Well, in a couple of days I was San Francisco and at while, I'd be Honolulu and I'd be getting off, but not yet.
Not the middle of the Pacific, and I was so bored, I was almost tempted to try. That's how come I paid so much attention to that couple. It's just another married couple. He wasn't much face-free at payouts, by all you could remember, but his young wife had a very attractive manner, among her other assets.
We caught each other's eye once or twice, but didn't seem to bother much, except in a nice way, and we got acquainted the next night. They were always calling the couple this cute little thing and Mr. Pailface, I don't know why.
Whenever I saw them, they were in the midst of some kind of squabble, and now at the ship's bar, Mr. Pailface darned fool that he was, picked himself up and walked off, leaving her there.
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