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Blue Bride

The Lives of Harry Lime · October 19, 1951 · 28 min · 4,506 words

The transcript of “Blue Bride”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast October 19, 1951. 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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presenting Orson Wells as the third man. Lives of Harry Lyme. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zugamusic by Anton Carus. That was the shot that killed Harry Lyme.

He died in a sewer beneath Vienna. As those of you who saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that was the end of Harry Lyme. It was not the beginning. Harry Long had many lives.

I can recount all of them. How do I know? Very simple. Because my name is Harry Long. Make your taking place in the city of Bordeaux, it has to do with a phase of my hectic career, which was almost exclusively a chase.

I was a big boy by then, but there's a schoolteacher in the story, all the same. His name was Professor Sam Pierre. harm, but he caused me plenty before it was over. Orson Welles has Harry Lime, the third man in Blue Bride.

Now this little cautionary tale took place a couple of years ago. In the French port of Bordeaux, I'd taken lodgings above one of the choices dimes that the place has to offer. The proprietious is an enormous woman called affectionately by the sailors, Blaghurouse He's a female.

Not formidable female if I ever saw one. I found the location a convenient base for certain of my business transactions. I had circulated a rumor that I was writing a book about the waterfront. Unfortunately, St. Pierre got wind of it.

I evidently got a philosophy. He mistook the little teacher of one of my clients and brought him up. I was going over some accounts when there was a knock on my door. Was it? You died from himself from Pierre from the East East.

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