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The Lives of Harry Lime · November 16, 1951 · 29 min · 3,949 words
The transcript of “In Pursuit of a Ghost”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast November 16, 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 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 Kera. You come in a theatre just as the curtain is going up. The band's playing something exciting, Latin American. The stage is alive with colour and dancing against the background of the marketplace in Central America.
suddenly some of the Spanish accents is broad at the East River. Shoutes El Haniral, and everything comes to a halt. El Haniral sweeps in, wearing a broad sash handled by a moustache and a big menacing frown that scares nobody. He mutters something about La Reva Lución, a couple of shots ring out, a few chorus boys drop gracefully to the ground, and the entire
company breaks into the first big production number. But revolutions aren't like that. There's no music playing, no scantily clad dances, no comics. The guns have real bullets in them. I know. So I was mixed up in one of them. I'll tell you about it.
Man, in pursuit of a... There's no sense in identifying the Central American country where I found myself in the fall of 45.
Any of those were involved in the revolution is still alive, of course. I've caused enough trouble. Anyway, I was in a waterfront cafe in the tiny country's capital and there were only two of us to buy. You know, it's truly her alignment. A dirty-handed little Englishman who looked about as much at home as a burlesque queen of the church picnic.
Yeah. How about having a little drink with me, Captain? Oh, thanks. I don't like drinking alone either. Oh, American, eh? Well, thought from how you were inside to disappoint you. Oh, we don't make no difference.
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