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The Blue Caribou

The Lives of Harry Lime · July 18, 1952 · 27 min · 3,442 words

The transcript of “The Blue Caribou”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast July 18, 1952. 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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Third man, the place of the immortal character, originally created in the story The Third Man, with the sister of music by Anton Carran. Well, if you know the Republic of San Marino, it's one of the smallest countries in the world, right up on a mountain top in Italy, has its own frontier and its own laws.

Some people find that a convenience. For instance, if you have to be wanted by the Italian police, they can't come into San Marino and get you. I wasn't exactly in San Marino, one particular Wednesday, but I wasn't far away about 20 miles away down in the Italian town of Remini at the bar of my hotel.

The leader went to the attic, or I go to Tom Collins' anybody this side of the state. And I was just about at the bottom of my glass when a peculiar little character sighted up to me at pop eyes like the ends of hard-boiled eggs.

In a couple of shaky hands he kept lace together across his chest most of the time. This wasn't enough to make these things a little less than legitimate. The fruit I'd taken out of my Tom Collins glass and put on the ash tray.

line he said Now what is this line Ryan make me think I have anything to do with you He said he was a fortune teller and that was how he began his pitch. I gave him a thousand lira and he went on He didn't do such a job Except that just toward the end

He made one big mistake That is you think he was trying to read my fortune in the fees and the on the right track with put it down My name is Martin. You're a but the now that we're getting acquainted. What's your name? Oh?

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