Speaker 1: Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man. The Lives of
Speaker 1: Harry Lyme, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
Speaker 1: created in the motion picture The Third Man with zither
Speaker 1: music by Anton kra.
Speaker 2: That was the shot that killed Harry Lyme.
Speaker 3: He died in a sewer beneath the nascuse of.
Speaker 2: You know who saw the movies The Third Man. Yes,
Speaker 2: that was the end of.
Speaker 3: Herry life, but it was not the beginning.
Speaker 2: Now, he had many lives.
Speaker 3: But I can tell you about all of them.
Speaker 2: How do I know? Because my name is Harryline Fella.
Speaker 2: I know once told me I was a poet that
Speaker 2: he was so wrong.
Speaker 3: Poets are always singing about daffodils and brooks and skylights
Speaker 3: and the women they're faithful.
Speaker 2: To in their fashion.
Speaker 3: I sort of metri with her, was I if I
Speaker 3: sang at all, would sing about money and the women.
Speaker 3: I'd know, But in an offbeat rhythm, money and women
Speaker 3: and how they go together, and either is much use
Speaker 3: without the other, as he's that's the stuff that Harry
Speaker 3: Lyone sings about. Those are the themes to which he
Speaker 3: dances in Life's ballet. Sometimes pleasant, occasionally a little painful,
Speaker 3: like that time in Tehran and now orson wells as Harry.
Speaker 4: Lyon, the third man in every.
Speaker 2: Frame has a silver lining. It was in Tehrana, was
Speaker 2: some years ago.
Speaker 3: I had just come there, and I was pretty sure
Speaker 3: that in the country, with all that oil and all
Speaker 3: that intrigue, with so many people playing the game of
Speaker 3: empire building and empire busting, I could promote something that
Speaker 3: suited my special talents. I was walking on the street
Speaker 3: when I heard some shouting. A small frightened man out
Speaker 3: of dress and frantic things wheeling around the corner and.
Speaker 1: Piled into me head on, Hey, hey there, what's the
Speaker 1: where's the fight there?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: For my way?
Speaker 3: They're not so fast, papas, papas.
Speaker 2: Don't you recognize me?
Speaker 3: How lie right?
Speaker 6: It was after you, the devil? The police are chasing me. Heah,
Speaker 6: take this okay, what is it? Fifty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 6: of popular what's that few opium? Fifty thousand dollars worth?
Speaker 3: Take your Tell them what am I.
Speaker 5: Going to do with it?
Speaker 6: Then if they catch me, they'll have to let me
Speaker 6: go to night at seven point thirty, bring it to
Speaker 6: the examplete my principles will be there.
Speaker 3: And we'll cut you in Okay, I'm where they beat
Speaker 3: it now, that's down this alley.
Speaker 7: Thank you had it foll night.
Speaker 6: That's seven plus a night at seven thirty.
Speaker 5: Are you hey? You just a minute.
Speaker 3: You're the police, aren't you?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Are you chasing the little man who ran around the
Speaker 3: corner here, the one in the dirty white sealed terre
Speaker 3: you time he went down that alley?
Speaker 5: Come?
Speaker 3: I wait until the police disappeared, and then I did
Speaker 3: some running on my own account to my hotel. I
Speaker 3: repacked my bag, making start to conceal among my handkerchiefs,
Speaker 3: and shure, it's the package my friend pompos has been
Speaker 3: so kind as to give me.
Speaker 2: Then hello, would ask mister.
Speaker 3: Lime from one one, two three on a reservation of
Speaker 3: the two o'clock train for Paris. Yes, yes, I I know,
Speaker 3: I know, I've just arrived, but I'm I'm leaving now.
Speaker 3: I was now the sole owner of fifty thousand I
Speaker 3: was worth of Opio in Paris. I could protect myself
Speaker 3: to some extent because of connections and the other problem
Speaker 3: I was hard to smuggled into America.
Speaker 2: When I knew I'd be able to get.
Speaker 3: The best price for it in Paris, I set about
Speaker 3: to find some likely tourists into its luggage and able
Speaker 3: to put my package. It took me three days to
Speaker 3: find my American, very lovely looking American outside a cafe,
Speaker 3: A lovely, fresh, unspoiled girl sat watching the parisiancy. Some
Speaker 3: men would merely have looked at their hunger until the
Speaker 3: cafe closed. Not really, Hello, do.
Speaker 8: I know you?
Speaker 3: My name is Harryline. I don't know your I just
Speaker 3: introduced myself.
Speaker 8: Perhaps I should warn you that I'm waiting for my parents.
Speaker 3: Oh good, fine, Uh, very much like to meet your parents,
Speaker 3: aren't you.
Speaker 4: You don't really believe that, you don't.
Speaker 3: A man can see a girl and know that this
Speaker 3: is the good one I've always thought must be somewhere
Speaker 3: on earth, the one I've never met, always wanted to meet.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't speak, and she goes away and he
Speaker 3: never sees her again. So is it rudeness if he
Speaker 3: speaks to her? Is it wisdom?
Speaker 8: You're very bold?
Speaker 2: I hope I'm also convincing. I very much wonder me,
Speaker 2: And I said, don.
Speaker 8: M well, since my parents are coming, thank you?
Speaker 2: Hum better now?
Speaker 4: Maybe I ought to know your.
Speaker 8: Name, Helen?
Speaker 3: Both, how do you do American of course, I'm from
Speaker 3: New York, but you're not.
Speaker 8: How can you tell?
Speaker 3: Because you're unself conscious, because you're direct and simple and
Speaker 3: best sense of that word, you're you're I'm from a
Speaker 3: large city, but you're not a farm girl either. From
Speaker 3: a small city, probably the Midwest, right.
Speaker 8: I'm from Youngstown. You see, you're very clever.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm interested in this one, so interested that I
Speaker 3: can't be satisfied with anything less than a close and
Speaker 3: complete study of you.
Speaker 8: Will you make me sound like a picture in the louver?
Speaker 2: You're much too natural for that. I hope you're going
Speaker 2: to be in Fantis for a one.
Speaker 8: Well, we're leaving in about a week.
Speaker 3: I think it doesn't give you much time. Tell me
Speaker 3: your parents, do you hear any minute?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: I'm supposed to meet them here in an hour, but
Speaker 8: I didn't know where else to go.
Speaker 3: Good, have an hour, at least an hour for me
Speaker 3: to show your parents. Come on, well, really, let's make
Speaker 3: it more than an hour. That's even no for them.
Speaker 3: We can meet them later to try to tell, and I'll
Speaker 3: take you all to dinner.
Speaker 8: Goodness, you're so sudden, so bright.
Speaker 2: I have much time, you you know, only a week pass.
Speaker 4: All who went to the garden of the cleaners.
Speaker 3: So I was tempted to see whether I could leading
Speaker 3: this girl away from her parents the whole evening, and
Speaker 3: for once acted the perfect gentleman. Refinement is not among
Speaker 3: many skills boring, but useful in my trade. This girl
Speaker 3: and her Midwestern parents were perfect to smother the opium
Speaker 3: into the us for me, so I questioned. It was
Speaker 3: real interest about herself and to her family.
Speaker 8: My brother Jack was killed in the Lord. We came
Speaker 8: over here to see his grave.
Speaker 2: I was very solicitous.
Speaker 3: I knew that Americans are always happy to meet compatriots
Speaker 3: have brought all Americans, but I there isn't this time
Speaker 3: even I was delighted and took her back to a hotel,
Speaker 3: met her parents, took them all to dinner.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, mister Lamia. If there's no place like Youngstown,
Speaker 7: isn't that right? Mother?
Speaker 8: It's a nice town. I mean, it's nice.
Speaker 3: And you, Helen, you like your hometown too? Why or
Speaker 3: she does?
Speaker 7: Why shouldn't she?
Speaker 9: She was born mer Oh, Jaddy, that's no reason for
Speaker 9: liking the place. I do like it, for Helms had
Speaker 9: some of the nicest times back home. Mister Lime I mean,
Speaker 9: she's really enjoyed herself with the young folks.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean, Hey, I'm getting jealous.
Speaker 7: You come to Youngstown, mister Lyme, We'll be sure you
Speaker 7: what living can be.
Speaker 8: I mean the real folks, mister Lyon.
Speaker 3: They were perfect for my guy, real homespun boos who
Speaker 3: wouldn't suspect I'd planned anything in their luggage and would
Speaker 3: not be suspected by customers officials, and knew after five
Speaker 3: minutes that I had the answer to my problem. After dinner,
Speaker 3: they took me back to the hotel suite, and here,
Speaker 3: in a city full of the greatest art treasures in
Speaker 3: the world, I was made to exclaim over the family
Speaker 3: photograph albums that they brought from Youngstown.
Speaker 10: This picture was taking to the picnic role, mister lad
Speaker 10: See dad and his white flannel.
Speaker 7: See who are my high scream fans that day?
Speaker 2: This picture doesn't do justice to.
Speaker 8: Helen Well, you're making fun at all.
Speaker 7: I'm not making it easy to see rich member of
Speaker 7: the family of this young feathers interested in and.
Speaker 2: Now you're embarrassing me.
Speaker 11: Oh, personally, I think it would be impossible to embarrass you.
Speaker 2: Mister call me Harry, won't you, Helen, that's.
Speaker 8: An example of what I mean. Oh, mister Lime, here
Speaker 8: here's a picture of our poor dead boy.
Speaker 3: Oh things are fine looking boring because it's a wonderful picture.
Speaker 3: I'm judy frame.
Speaker 7: Read would look nice and a friend, wouldn't I.
Speaker 2: Sure would, And maybe I could get one for you.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: I know where I can get a beauty and overhear
Speaker 3: things don't cost like to do in the States, so
Speaker 3: we don't have to settle that now doing right now,
Speaker 3: all I'd like to do is.
Speaker 2: To have you all agree to be my guests on
Speaker 2: a tour of the city tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'd like that person rate and one other thing, with
Speaker 3: your permission, and with Helen's consent. Of course, I'd like
Speaker 3: to take Helen to the followdays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now, that's up to Helen.
Speaker 8: Oh, I'd like it's very much.
Speaker 3: That's great, let's go in two or three days. I
Speaker 3: was in solid with the family, and so the day
Speaker 3: before they were to leave for Sherbury to take the
Speaker 3: boat for New York, I felt I could move in
Speaker 3: with my presence with a silver frame, good size, when
Speaker 3: a thick one, a hollow one for the boy's picture.
Speaker 3: My room. I opened a little package I received from
Speaker 3: Papas and concealed its contents.
Speaker 2: In the hollow of the frame. Then I visited the
Speaker 2: Bold family in the suite.
Speaker 7: Wow, this is a wonderful present.
Speaker 5: Line.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, Harry. It's such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 10: You've done this so we can have Jack's picture on
Speaker 10: the piano back home. I mean, it's the nicest thing
Speaker 10: that's happened on the whole.
Speaker 2: Well, believe me, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 8: See how the picture fits, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Nice?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 3: And now, one time you leave for Sherburg, I've been
Speaker 3: thinking I'd like to go with you if I name no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: There's no names.
Speaker 8: You'll be seeing us in Youngstown when you come back
Speaker 8: to America.
Speaker 5: Harry.
Speaker 8: Of course, we don't want to put you out.
Speaker 3: You'd rather stay in pass my dear people. I'd rather
Speaker 3: not stay in for us. I'd rather do with you.
Speaker 3: I want to wave goodbye to you.
Speaker 2: As you sail.
Speaker 7: Wow, it's very nice, Harry.
Speaker 11: But I insist, well, oh, mother, I think if he insists, well,
Speaker 11: that is a compliment to us. If Harry insane and
Speaker 11: I do, then we've got to let him come.
Speaker 8: Don't you see that? Don't you agree? Father?
Speaker 7: I guess I do? Okay, young cler Gee, Thanks.
Speaker 5: Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third man.
Speaker 2: Orson Welles.
Speaker 1: As the third man continues with every frame has a
Speaker 1: silver lining.
Speaker 3: I wanted to go to Sherbury, so I have to
Speaker 3: tell you, because I I never believed in leaving anything
Speaker 3: a chance. I had to know which suitcase the picture
Speaker 3: of the silver frame got packed, and I was determined
Speaker 3: to put them on the boat.
Speaker 2: So I went to Sherby the night before they were
Speaker 2: to sail, I walked with Helen done by the woods.
Speaker 8: So still to me, m.
Speaker 3: The night is holding its breath for its form or
Speaker 3: last night. Yes, and last night it is sad, of course,
Speaker 3: but there is something beautiful about it too, isn't it.
Speaker 8: That there's always something beautiful about side?
Speaker 2: Yes, Helen, I'd like to make believe tonight. I'd like
Speaker 2: to pretend that this is the end.
Speaker 8: Well, we're never gonna see each other, agare mm could be.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't mean it.
Speaker 3: But even though I'd soon come to you in Youngstown,
Speaker 3: even though we might soon be married, I wanna say
Speaker 3: goodbye to you tonight. The way a man says goodbye
Speaker 3: to a girl he loves who we'll never see again.
Speaker 8: I know how you feel. I feel that way too,
Speaker 8: Harry Darling, look at me. Yes, oh, just mmm.
Speaker 3: I delivered to finding the hands of her parents, and
Speaker 3: before we had a nightcap together, I helped him pack,
Speaker 3: helped to put the frame i'd bought them in the opium.
Speaker 3: They didn't know about to a certain suitcase. So when
Speaker 3: I put them on a boat and I take the
Speaker 3: plane to.
Speaker 2: America, before they arrived, i'd have certain friends of mine ready.
Speaker 3: To hijack that suitcase as soon as they got it
Speaker 3: to the customers. Everything was working for the.
Speaker 2: Best and the best of all possible worlds.
Speaker 3: I slept well till next morning. Quite early, I went
Speaker 3: to my room.
Speaker 12: Tell them, I'm honest you, you must not make so
Speaker 12: much noise.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to arouse my friends. That's mistaken nonsense. The
Speaker 3: balls are staying here.
Speaker 13: No, monsieur, they have left at two o'clock this morning. See,
Speaker 13: I assure you, papant, they have gone.
Speaker 2: I stood there in the doorway, looking into the room vacated.
Speaker 3: By my arrest wire friends, and in my mind's ear
Speaker 3: I heard the voice of Papa's my principals will reach
Speaker 3: with Mike in the Grand Hotel. They met me, all right,
Speaker 3: they met me Papas's principles and took me perhaps Papa's who.
Speaker 2: Knew me well. I told them that I I liked
Speaker 2: a pretty face.
Speaker 3: Now they were gone, and so was my opium, and
Speaker 3: so was my fifty thousand dollars. I advanced into that room.
Speaker 12: But monsieur, you have no heart in here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is this give me the ride?
Speaker 8: I thank you, monsieur, thank you?
Speaker 12: Can I help you in anyway?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I'm looking for something and for what I don't know clues?
Speaker 8: Is this pictures a flaw, monsieur, brother Jack.
Speaker 2: If they only left the frame around that picture, I
Speaker 2: never mind it? And what's this?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: And the that's brother there? Someone was writing on the
Speaker 2: paper of his blood and he bought on her.
Speaker 3: Let's see, let's see if we can make it out
Speaker 3: that what we do?
Speaker 2: Sure don't? If we really sure, I'll say I'm.
Speaker 12: Off, monsieur, Ah says America.
Speaker 3: Theresi and marsays and short and quiet, straight, quiet to
Speaker 3: the point of being suspicious. The street was more vacant
Speaker 3: lots than dilapidated frame houses in need of paint, and
Speaker 3: the twenty three was there a house with streaked windows,
Speaker 3: a house seemingly deserted. No one was watching. So I
Speaker 3: mounted the steps of the porch with my automatic in
Speaker 3: my hand. How do you hollow, papas? This guy has
Speaker 3: real bullets in it. I'm coming in.
Speaker 2: Come in here, come in, Okay, where are they people
Speaker 2: you're holding? Presenter?
Speaker 3: Papas have come to take them out? Where's that girl?
Speaker 2: Where are they in that room? Okay, lead on like Papa's.
Speaker 3: Open the door.
Speaker 2: Hello darling, Hello, mother and father.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, we're gonna make.
Speaker 2: A deal with you over the corner. Papas were always.
Speaker 12: Intended to cut your in.
Speaker 8: Oh that's a silly thing to say, Grace.
Speaker 2: He knows better, Gray, sir, not mother. I'm relieved. Listen
Speaker 2: to me. And there's the opium right on the table,
Speaker 2: still in the frame. Well, thank you one and all.
Speaker 11: Now, wait a minute, there's a man coming to pick
Speaker 11: up that opium and give us some money for it.
Speaker 8: He's still here any minute, when you're not. We thought
Speaker 8: he'd comes.
Speaker 7: He's playing American prices line.
Speaker 12: Yes, we'll cut you in.
Speaker 8: Well was intended to what you saying.
Speaker 2: Line, it's a good deal for you, Haddie, sounds like
Speaker 2: a good deal for me.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Hold the door the next room, Ella, that's fine. It'd
Speaker 3: be nice to tie you people up in here. No,
Speaker 3: you don't real, Line, you're not here. Harry, you know,
Speaker 3: used to argue with Haddie. I know, and he's nothing
Speaker 3: from this man. Come on, all of you in here,
Speaker 3: all right, and now all of your set to work
Speaker 3: tearing down these brakes. Come on, hop to it, Helen.
Speaker 3: You're going to tie them up and then you'll tie
Speaker 3: me up.
Speaker 2: How would you like to come with me?
Speaker 4: Do you mean?
Speaker 2: I mean it? We could be an excellent team.
Speaker 3: Nobody more innocent looking than you, and nobody more full
Speaker 3: of excellent ideas making use of your innocent appearance than I.
Speaker 2: What are you saying?
Speaker 8: All right, Harriet?
Speaker 5: To do?
Speaker 2: Shut up?
Speaker 4: Shut up?
Speaker 2: All right, Helen? Tie them up?
Speaker 8: Tag him, all right, darling launch.
Speaker 3: She tied them well, and afterwards she and I went
Speaker 3: into the other room and waited for the messenger.
Speaker 2: With the money.
Speaker 8: It's going to be a merry light.
Speaker 2: Oh what is that is? You know?
Speaker 3: It's a relief? Helen is discovering that you're not a
Speaker 3: little maiden from Youngstown. I can like you just as
Speaker 3: much this way more, but it's I'm not pretending. Oh
Speaker 3: you pretended well, not have so well as you do.
Speaker 3: You love me, Harry, Now there you are. A woman
Speaker 3: can have all the wackedness and all the terrible precocious.
Speaker 2: Knowledge of the street, Edson, and still she remains a woman.
Speaker 2: Do I love you? Yeah, Helen, and I love you.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I have a soft spot. You see.
Speaker 3: I could have left you in that room and the others.
Speaker 2: I could have taken all the money for myself.
Speaker 5: But I love you.
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm glad you have that soft spot. And I
Speaker 8: am a woman. Really, there's messages.
Speaker 3: Come on, No, wait a minute. Automatic never can tell
Speaker 3: when you're dealing with crooks.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go. I'll cover the door with a gun.
Speaker 2: You open it.
Speaker 3: Please put on the guns your ticket from him jackaby. Gentlemen, gentlemen,
Speaker 3: wait wait now.
Speaker 5: There will be no waiting most year.
Speaker 4: We know you have opium here.
Speaker 3: We've been watching the eyes. They've also got the man
Speaker 3: who's here with the monk.
Speaker 8: Okay, what can we do?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: There, gentlemen, is a clever girl.
Speaker 7: What do you mean, Harry, you hear her.
Speaker 2: She's making it sound as though I was one of them, Harry,
Speaker 2: what are you saying?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 3: Well, you saw me the gun trained on her. I
Speaker 3: made her open the door, and I was going to
Speaker 3: take the messenger. Did not realize, of course, that you
Speaker 3: so efficient policeman, had already taken him. I made this
Speaker 3: girl confess to me where the opium was hit.
Speaker 8: He's lying, he's heard me here. He's making love too.
Speaker 5: I wanted proof, Ma, If you won't get.
Speaker 3: It from her, General said you loved me.
Speaker 8: You said we were to be mad.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, this is a most wicked liar. In the back room,
Speaker 3: you will find the rest of her gang tied up
Speaker 3: as I tied to myself. You can easily trace this
Speaker 3: girl to these people. She's gone everywhere in the continent
Speaker 3: with them, pretending to be the daughter.
Speaker 2: Of the two of them. Is that a lie, young lady?
Speaker 5: You you monsieur.
Speaker 3: If your story is true, France will be most great.
Speaker 2: Oh it's quite right, that's quite You'll find the gang
Speaker 2: back there.
Speaker 3: Jacques, you will stay here with these people. I myself
Speaker 3: will go and see.
Speaker 2: Or by the way, Captain.
Speaker 3: Yes, just in case you're.
Speaker 2: Wondering about my angle and this, I believe you're so gracious.
Speaker 3: Country offers a reward in cases like this, that is true.
Speaker 2: I do hope you'll be able to put it through
Speaker 2: for me quite speedily.
Speaker 3: Captain, I really shouldn't stay in nice say much longer.
Speaker 3: I will do my best mess you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Dirty dirty swine.
Speaker 3: Haw I how easy out of darling. I'm a realist,
Speaker 3: if you know, my sweet Though you are so beautiful,
Speaker 3: I'm afraid that I cannot undertake to wait for you
Speaker 3: to get out of whatever that steel is about to
Speaker 3: embrace you through. All the time for everything is a
Speaker 3: time for seeing pennists and a time for making another
Speaker 3: time to Sentiment's time for you in about ten years,
Speaker 3: I should think, So long.
Speaker 5: Are Harry Lyme returns in in just a.
Speaker 2: Month, and now Verry lies.
Speaker 4: I'd rather wait.
Speaker 3: As a PostScript to that story, I told you once
Speaker 3: before I don't approve of dope, and you may have
Speaker 3: felt from this little adventure that I've gone against my principles.
Speaker 2: Really you should know me better right now. Harry Lyon
Speaker 2: may be a trifle.
Speaker 3: Underweight on some of the virtues that touch upon his principles,
Speaker 3: and I want you to watch out. The police of
Speaker 3: Us got the dope. But even if they hadn't arrived
Speaker 3: at that rather dramatic moment on that you're not a secret,
Speaker 3: I'd already come to a decision. I was going to
Speaker 3: claim that police reward anyway, same may have been influenced
Speaker 3: by reading about the size of the reward, not about
Speaker 3: the size of the risk. In all the way things
Speaker 3: are going, They pay to be honest, charge us to
Speaker 3: prove that even Harry Lyon may not be incorruptible.
Speaker 14: Do you see what I meant as.
Speaker 15: Any from basin.
Speaker 14: In take into the animas.
Speaker 11: And don't have.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 15: It's from bathing in fat in compassa