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Ticket to Tangier

The Lives of Harry Lime · August 24, 1951 · 28 min · 4,060 words

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presenting Orson Welles as the third man, lives of Harry Lime. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zoota Music by Anton Carus. That was the shot that killed Harry Lime. He died in a sewer beneath Vienna.

As those of you who saw the movie The Third Man, he answered that was the end of Harry Lime. It was not the beginning. Harry Lyon had many lives. I can recount all of them.

Very simple. First my name is Harry Lyon. I was down on my luck way down, scraping the bottom. Couple of deals had fallen through, and I found myself in Paris with a lot of time on my hands, and only the price of a beer in my pocket.

I was spending my time in the money at Fouquette's. Not because the beer is any cheaper at Fouquette's, Well, you meet a nicer class of people than the site for that you read the newspapers free.

So I was reading a newspaper and I came on the advertisement, one of those classified ads in the personal column, was addressed to Harry Lime. Harry Lime being me, I read all of some interest.

There was no signature, no address. Mr. Harry Lime had said, we'll find a business opportunity of an extremely profitable nature in the city of Tangier. Now, I might have thought this was one of the boys trying to hustle me out of Paris, out of Paris are just trying to be funny except that the advertisement mentioned the city of

Tangier. Why Tangier? Well, there are a few places in the world I haven't been to and Tangier just happened at the time to be one of them. Also Tangier, as everybody knows, is full of money and I couldn't imagine anybody wanting to send me there right in the heart of the free gold area where every second addresses a bank

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