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It's a Knockout

The Lives of Harry Lime · December 21, 1951 · 28 min · 3,979 words

The transcript of “It's a Knockout”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast December 21, 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. The poet says, is so full of a number of things he sure we should all be as happy as games.

Luckily the world, so full of such a number of other things, is also pretty generously loaded with suckers. What my children is a sucker? A sucker is a larcenist chump who likes to gamble as long as it's a sure thing.

And do I need to tell you that the surest thing in the world is that a sure thing can't be sure? Step a little closer for Andrew, crowding the Patience, let me tell you about it.

Well, Orson Wells has Harry Lined the third man in Get So Knockout. When you're after me, Harry.

See? Harry is one that's knocking his pipe out. That's ten pierce, that's a little sucker. Man, the pull-up call. Not bad looking, is it? Keep your mind on your business now, Jenny. He's worth at least 30,000 to me if you do his I tell you.

Don't worry, Harry. I'll have him in Havana with his 30,000 on a plate inside of 48,000. Okay, okay, I'll be waiting for him. Now, try and get a seat here. I'm on the plane and don't forget when you meet me in Havana.

I'm not Harry Lime. I'm Jay Harrington Lime, the Wall Street turned to a vacuum businessman like Stan Pierce, who goes on a Florida vacation, and finds himself sitting on the plane next to a pretty girly, makes my work pretty simple for me.

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