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Horse Play

The Lives of Harry Lime · November 23, 1951 · 28 min · 4,473 words

The transcript of “Horse Play”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast November 23, 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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Orson Weld as the third man, the lives of Harry Lime. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture, The Third Man with the Zither music by Anton Cara. We're an honest man, which would be silly on the face of it.

This would be my sermon. Any character who gets swindled is asking for it. You can't swindle him, unless he's so full of larceny that his very breathing is crooked. This to a man of my talents would be disconcerting if I didn't know that nine people out of ten are full of larceny I can say that in America named Harris or not so long ago came to Paris for a holiday

Strictly and Mr. Harris's honor. I concocted a juicy little swindle called horseplay Orson well as hairy lime the third man in

My game of horseplay began in the bar of the Creole and started I had to call on a French power line Andrei Chanyim. Say it to me again, Ari. The big man. Over there, I think, corner table.

See him? Yes, but look, look. All I want you to do is to get into conversation with him. Is he enough? Why not? Then, when you're talking, you find this billfold out of the table.

Under the table? Where you will have dropped it first. Ah-ha, Naseus. And in the billfold, there are people which are identified as yours. You'll return it to me, Simbro. Be sure to bring this man his me where I return.

Let him return it. I'll be in a room here at the hotel. The talk of focus thought you will accomplish what all these focus focus my friend will result in Mr. Harris that big man at the corner table giving me thousands and thousands of American dollars as you will feed.

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