Speaker 1: Resenting Orson Wells as the Third Man. The lives of
Speaker 1: Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
Speaker 1: created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zipper
Speaker 1: music by Anton Karrah.
Speaker 2: That was the shot that killed Harry Lyon. He died
Speaker 2: in a sewer beneath Sienna. And those of you know
Speaker 2: who saw the movie to Third Man, Yes, that was
Speaker 2: the end of Harry Lyon, but it's not the beginning.
Speaker 2: Harryline had many lines, and I can.
Speaker 3: Recount all of them. How do I know Hessen because
Speaker 3: my name is here, Aylie.
Speaker 2: I've known many places and left them, made many friends
Speaker 2: and lost them, won many fortunes and spent them. My
Speaker 2: fate seems to be linked to a cosmic yo Yo.
Speaker 2: This is a story of a low point and one
Speaker 2: of the yo Yo trips down. This particular low point
Speaker 2: is known on the map as the island of Haiti.
Speaker 2: I arrived as a sort of political refugee. A small
Speaker 2: revolution I've been promoting in a nearby Banana Republic had.
Speaker 3: Fizzled out on me.
Speaker 2: In the general I've been backing, backed out, and I
Speaker 2: found myself holding the bag. The bag luckily just happened
Speaker 2: to contain a few roles of the US Treasury's best letters.
Speaker 2: So when I descended on Ady, I did it with still.
Speaker 2: Then after a while I spent the style. Not let
Speaker 2: anybody say you about the easy life on these tropical islands.
Speaker 2: You need go in Paradise too, because I still had
Speaker 2: my friends among the natives. But even they had become
Speaker 2: devoted students as a rubia, that is, they took the
Speaker 2: cash and let the credit go.
Speaker 1: And now Orson Wells is Harry Lyon, the third man
Speaker 1: in Voodoo.
Speaker 3: I am sorry, misery, no more. Come on now, George,
Speaker 3: You've got a clean white cuff there even for a button.
Speaker 1: Please understand, my boss, you supply my cuffs.
Speaker 2: I cannot bucket up an George, are you trying to
Speaker 2: tell me that money makes that much difference to you?
Speaker 2: Do you prefer that sort of customer to me, that
Speaker 2: that ambassador they'll will over there, the babbitt who comes
Speaker 2: to Haiti to find somebody new in Toledo, Or do
Speaker 2: you prefer he I prepare you may see.
Speaker 3: Old man on this island settled. Huh.
Speaker 4: But de boss, you prepared his customer with the money.
Speaker 2: I should have known somehow, George, had never occurred to
Speaker 2: me that you'd sell out like the rest or commercial.
Speaker 2: Well you you've been trapped to George, cornered, impaled on
Speaker 2: the almighty dollar side.
Speaker 3: No no money me. Well, George, it's getting late, time
Speaker 3: for me to move on.
Speaker 4: I guess that's your greatest fault, Harry Lyme, always moving on.
Speaker 5: And it's always getting so late. Hello, Harry Darling.
Speaker 3: Joing you beautiful, wonderful witch. What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Uh huh, let's not be tried, Harry, I could ask
Speaker 5: you the same.
Speaker 3: Okay, then whom are you doing here?
Speaker 5: Harry Darling? Three years haven't changed you again?
Speaker 3: Is he that one?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No over there for you?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, don oh.
Speaker 5: He's really quite charming.
Speaker 3: Charming, he's an old and like the way he laughs.
Speaker 1: Who's the door in?
Speaker 4: Darling?
Speaker 6: He pinches waitresses, collects souvenirs, collects money too.
Speaker 2: You might have known you medium to you and George,
Speaker 2: you might tell your boss that Harry Lyme is on
Speaker 2: the preferred list again. I spent several pleasant moments following
Speaker 2: Dorna to the booth, and she sneaked away adroitly between
Speaker 2: the tables.
Speaker 3: It's difficult for me to focus my attention on a mark.
Speaker 3: The mark in this case was fat and perspiring.
Speaker 2: Of course, it was ball its contributions to the aromas
Speaker 2: the cafe with generously ciguise perspiration, his money.
Speaker 1: Sam or hire baby, I was just gonna send out
Speaker 1: a search embody for you.
Speaker 3: Sam.
Speaker 1: I'd like you to meet an old friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Harry Lyme.
Speaker 3: Sam, I'm very happy to meet you, mister talking. Oh,
Speaker 3: sit down, sit on.
Speaker 1: Any friend of Donna's is a friend of mine within region.
Speaker 1: Accorder you from the States to Larry.
Speaker 5: Harry Sam Harry Lyme.
Speaker 1: Huh oh yeah, Harry, what part of the States you're from.
Speaker 1: I'm from Toledo, Toledo. Yeah, one of my plants is
Speaker 1: in Toledo.
Speaker 3: Or drink, have a drink, waiter, bring my friend and drink.
Speaker 3: Great little time, sir.
Speaker 1: Of course to me, any town's a great town as
Speaker 1: long as business is good. Hey, you know, I'm this
Speaker 1: is my first vacation in eighteen years.
Speaker 3: Eighteen years. Can you imagine that he gambled for return?
Speaker 3: It is he gambled.
Speaker 2: Dorno was obviously abused by my boardom, but my patience
Speaker 2: has always had a price. Talking kept gambling, so I
Speaker 2: almost considered reducing that price and.
Speaker 3: Then gave me my cue. Sure is hot in these parts.
Speaker 1: Well, baby, come on, let's go out of this dump
Speaker 1: and find some souvenirs.
Speaker 2: And what sort of souvenirs you're looking for, mister talkin, No,
Speaker 2: I don't know the souvenirs.
Speaker 1: Well, souvenirs in me, now, come on, beautiful it. Souvenirs
Speaker 1: can be more than souvenirs, mister.
Speaker 3: Torkon, No, I'm what kind of talking. I'll look mister talking,
Speaker 3: you're a man of taste and means Hey, sales, pitch, Hey,
Speaker 3: what are you selling here, Harry? What are you selling? Well?
Speaker 2: Selling, I'm selling nothing, not but plain ordinary common sense.
Speaker 3: It's had a premium on this island. As to talking,
Speaker 3: yes about Haiti voted this.
Speaker 2: Island is steeped and said, I'm not archive, not the
Speaker 2: lace trim sort of thing. Sentiment here is a wild, untamed,
Speaker 2: primitive love, a sense of possession which defies the laws of.
Speaker 3: Man in nature. Now listen to those drums toys. Listen,
Speaker 3: they're telling you the secrets of hate. If you understand them.
Speaker 3: Had as much as any civilized man is permitted to. Well,
Speaker 3: that's that bootible stuff. Any one and not stuff to.
Speaker 2: Those drums are calling for the voodoo gods to smile
Speaker 2: upon the wedding of the Native man and his beloved.
Speaker 2: The wedding nights are just beginning at Virginal dawn. It's
Speaker 2: the wedding of Fantasy and Grigory who Fantasy works as
Speaker 2: a waiter in a hotel in town.
Speaker 3: His father got a jam once with the planet. And
Speaker 3: I just happened to say his neck. That counts for something. Hey, oh,
Speaker 3: that reminds me. If you'll excuse me, here where you go,
Speaker 3: I'm going to the wedding. You're going to take a swip.
Speaker 3: I wish I could do another Well.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, wait a minute, I'll Oh what about oldest
Speaker 1: sentiment and souvenirs and all?
Speaker 2: Well, all right, look, Haiti is crawling with prices, relics,
Speaker 2: anthropological prizes, historical symbols.
Speaker 3: They bring fantastic prices from any museum in the States.
Speaker 3: Oh well, they're selling them. They're not selling them. Talk,
Speaker 3: They've got another island. There's another people to find them.
Speaker 2: How come they were so much sandal and old Man
Speaker 2: Santum and the voodoo brands.
Speaker 3: The natives protect their sacred symbols with their lives, and
Speaker 3: of course that the raw materials, hospittle.
Speaker 2: Sentimental trinkets, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, missus.
Speaker 3: Laney's baubles, the kind of centerment we understand.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love souvenirs like.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, Lime, I guess you can get me one
Speaker 1: of them bobbles.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's possible. Now what's your deal?
Speaker 2: Well, first, let me find a suitable trinket china up
Speaker 2: in the bargain for now, mister talking, the small retainer
Speaker 2: will do.
Speaker 3: Huh oh yeah, well how much poor ways you wish?
Speaker 2: Which But as those dramas would tell you, Sanderland comes
Speaker 2: high Haiti. I had a feeling a donor would keep saying,
Speaker 2: talking well occupied for the present, the future. Of course,
Speaker 2: I was handling my own way, and in the meantime
Speaker 2: something to worry about except keeping a date was two
Speaker 2: old friends.
Speaker 3: I found my friends in the floor.
Speaker 2: I see of the seven we find in the place
Speaker 2: of honor, that's the fit of them.
Speaker 3: Ah, monsieur Albi, we don't think you ever come ire
Speaker 3: in the message fancy you on, Gregor are my favorite people.
Speaker 5: But thank you you are time you say that's.
Speaker 3: So often Grigier I must do it serious. I wish
Speaker 3: you both much happen mass We.
Speaker 5: Will be happy always when we have friends like Ouri Line.
Speaker 5: You have done so much about us, our families. We
Speaker 5: cannot forgive you.
Speaker 2: I say, a man, you'll go far with a wife
Speaker 2: like this, She says all the right things.
Speaker 1: It is the time.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, we are married already.
Speaker 4: It is the moment to pledge yourselves to the authority. Sorry,
Speaker 4: it is a tribal custom, the suns.
Speaker 5: These these are tribal secrets.
Speaker 3: Oh, you don't trust your old friends of secrets. Thank,
Speaker 3: see what's happening? What's that?
Speaker 5: It is the authority this chapter the state great Chepto Star.
Speaker 2: The sceptor of early christof well, it was the supernir
Speaker 2: for talking.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm all right, all right, who is this?
Speaker 3: Only Christo was talking? You mean to say you never
Speaker 3: heard of it?
Speaker 2: Christoph was well, only was the the George Washington of Heji.
Speaker 1: Every too big, country's got its own Washington. Get me Washington,
Speaker 1: Sceptor and my mis Listen listen.
Speaker 3: No man.
Speaker 2: Christoff started like as a lady, became Haji's most powerful ruler.
Speaker 2: At one point, was regime talking. He stood off the
Speaker 2: combined armies of France and England with two thousand men
Speaker 2: on the north side of his island.
Speaker 3: Old man up near the car. Huh the cop got
Speaker 3: back in friend his fortress high on the hill. About
Speaker 3: the jungle, you've seen it, don't Oh, how could I
Speaker 3: miss it? Big enough, one of the biggest Washington didn't
Speaker 3: build that turken priest talks him.
Speaker 2: So what he didn't just order it, Bill, He planned it,
Speaker 2: designed to supervised the work. Dug rocks out of the
Speaker 2: mountains with his bare hands. Your self made man talk,
Speaker 2: and that ought to appeal to What about the sceptor line? Look, o, man,
Speaker 2: Harry Christoff is a landlocked saint. To these people are
Speaker 2: all powerful earth God.
Speaker 3: While he lives.
Speaker 2: His scepter was his symbol of strength and well being.
Speaker 2: King in those days was a profitable business overment. Priest
Speaker 2: Off had more jewels in that scepter than.
Speaker 3: Dorna has curves.
Speaker 2: And there's a revoltsy and hazy increased stuff was found
Speaker 2: dead that the sceptor was gone for over a hundred years,
Speaker 2: and s whereabouts.
Speaker 3: Have been kept secrets. I know the secret talking, I
Speaker 3: can get it for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my business.
Speaker 3: Your business is to make it worth my while.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm how much this time?
Speaker 3: Or plenty? Old man? Fancy fancy riots? Oh are oh you.
Speaker 4: Are welcome in the House of Sun, saying greatly my friend.
Speaker 2: Ay, I'm been looking for I've got.
Speaker 3: To talk to you. Oh, we are always eager to listen.
Speaker 3: Fancy it is that cpter ecept. That's the matter? Are
Speaker 3: you please?
Speaker 4: You must not ask.
Speaker 5: These are secrets about people, and.
Speaker 3: I've always considered myself one of your people.
Speaker 4: Great, my friend, Ari, I have told you too much already.
Speaker 4: Please do not think any more of the SPT. It
Speaker 4: is forbidden to speak.
Speaker 3: Of it, forbidden among friends.
Speaker 4: Haney with this different It is the authority it is.
Speaker 5: It is the scepter of Ally Christal.
Speaker 3: It is passed on from high priest to high priest.
Speaker 5: It is never off of their hands. It is the authority.
Speaker 3: Or that is enough to know.
Speaker 2: Please ask no more, greggling, Would I ask if it's
Speaker 2: one important?
Speaker 3: No? Are you I got to know more about it?
Speaker 3: Gre fancy you understand? Don't show you don't make them
Speaker 3: stay more? Are you?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 5: Don't make them say more? Please?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 3: Yeah, come in, fancy, come.
Speaker 4: In man, Are you do not mind that I come here.
Speaker 3: Of course, not anytime. That's the trouble.
Speaker 5: I do not know. It is not mic.
Speaker 4: When you are at my house today, I see you
Speaker 4: have great trouble. I try to tell greekly, but you
Speaker 4: don't unders trouble. And wait a minute, I am telling
Speaker 4: her you. I must have great trouble, or you would
Speaker 4: not ask for tribal think.
Speaker 3: Well, it is all right, daddy. You are my friend.
Speaker 4: When you are in trouble, I help you.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, God, that's the stero man.
Speaker 4: You have done much for me and Greek Greek.
Speaker 3: This is for you.
Speaker 5: It is theceptor of.
Speaker 3: All christophis Fancy it is yours. I could do no less.
Speaker 3: Fancy it. No, it's you.
Speaker 5: Will have no more trouble.
Speaker 2: A well, now wait a minute, what about you? How
Speaker 2: did you get this thing?
Speaker 3: Anyway? It is no master my story from the high priest.
Speaker 3: But if they find out you took it, they won't
Speaker 3: go to the police. No, I won't put you in jail.
Speaker 3: Off No, or what will I do?
Speaker 4: They will not put me in jail. They will not
Speaker 4: go to the police. The priest will be my judge.
Speaker 4: Fancy what will they do? They will punish me.
Speaker 6: I will die for some and Wells returns in just
Speaker 6: a moment as the third man.
Speaker 1: In next, oh orson Welles as the third man continues
Speaker 1: with voodoo.
Speaker 2: Had I known a man like Fancy earlier in my life,
Speaker 2: my ideas about all men might just possibly be a
Speaker 2: little different today. Here was the truest kind of friend,
Speaker 2: true in the real sense of the word true. He
Speaker 2: was staking his life, literally, staking his life on his
Speaker 2: faith in every line. If I rejected his author of
Speaker 2: the Sacred scept drive to shattered his faith in me,
Speaker 2: Fancy lived by his faith in his friends. And I
Speaker 2: did need the scepter as for friends, M and many
Speaker 2: kinds of friendship. He mm tell the truth? Mm oh sure,
Speaker 2: darn and I love your rabbits.
Speaker 5: No, no, not that about the scepter.
Speaker 3: No nice sigut that here?
Speaker 5: Ks, is it really the sceptor of only crystal? And
Speaker 5: think simile by it?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 5: Why is it too very sorry?
Speaker 3: Veras cluster real these big fat scipphire.
Speaker 5: In the middle, Harry M, what's it really worse?
Speaker 3: Mm? Twenty thousand, maybe twenty five most of the ash trail.
Speaker 5: And that talking would give me thirty five thousand for it. Thanks.
Speaker 5: So I'm pretty as the new m h.
Speaker 3: Right, but I have preached up sept.
Speaker 5: Darling, if you let me have a link to darn.
Speaker 2: Nice sweet I watched you three years ago in Madagascar,
Speaker 2: excepting might be a temptation if you leave me again, no.
Speaker 3: Stars never, I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't thirty five thousand be nicer than twenty five?
Speaker 3: Don't you let me no acts. I don't have a
Speaker 3: sept talking bought it this morning. Fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: That's why you lost me Madagascar. Uh huh, I guess
Speaker 5: I got to work. I'm talking again.
Speaker 3: Good old same, good old sad. Somehow good old Sam
Speaker 3: ran a bad second. Dorna was no fool. She wasn't greedy.
Speaker 3: I was available. I had money, not as much as talking,
Speaker 3: of course, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Have to keep her satisfied temporarily. We decided on a
Speaker 2: small celebration of sort that requires noisy public demonstrations with
Speaker 2: champagne bottles. We went to a little cafe, and I
Speaker 2: rather enjoyed the oppression I was making, particularly on George.
Speaker 3: Would you like me to put this on your bill?
Speaker 3: Miss certainly? Not George, certainly. I wouldn't want to cause
Speaker 3: any undue strain of suffering. For your employer. But monsieur,
Speaker 3: never mind, George Roman. Here they should cover the situation
Speaker 3: on here. Here's a little something for you. Thank you, Messieri,
Speaker 3: you were what's the matter?
Speaker 5: You will exclude the military.
Speaker 3: I must go, huh, I'm sorry. I must close the back,
Speaker 3: close the bar at this time of time, just a minute.
Speaker 3: The drums, you understand, the drums. The drums, my George,
Speaker 3: the death drums. I didn't want to tell you, monsieur,
Speaker 3: why before. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Harry, I don't know. Those are the dress drums.
Speaker 2: I mean someone's dead.
Speaker 3: They're dying. I'm going to die, going to die. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I have a punch. I hope I'm wrong, Harry.
Speaker 5: Wait where are you going? Hurry?
Speaker 2: When I got to the ceremonial grounds, I saw a
Speaker 2: frenzied side, hundreds and eightes still dressed in the tablet jungarrees,
Speaker 2: the cane fields, dancing, shrieking, half hypnotized. The drums. The
Speaker 2: drums are death all right? Mistaken. Because I crashed through
Speaker 2: the brush so the clearing, I saw that they had
Speaker 2: already already taken a life. There was a body of
Speaker 2: a dead body strapped to a post in the center
Speaker 2: of the circle, Sam talking. The voodoo priests danced up
Speaker 2: and back in front of it, waving curses over it
Speaker 2: and screaming through the slaves and a hideous mask. And
Speaker 2: in his hand he held a sceptive where he cristal
Speaker 2: sceptor that had costed.
Speaker 3: Talking more than he'd bother him for. I'd had enough.
Speaker 3: I turned to leave, and then at the far end
Speaker 3: of the clearing, I saw something else. Two more bodies
Speaker 3: and tied together, back.
Speaker 2: To back, hanging by their wrists from a long crossboard
Speaker 2: strung between two trees.
Speaker 3: The two of them together, the Fancy and Griegory, ready
Speaker 3: to be sacrificed. No, no, wait, stop stopping.
Speaker 1: I tell you.
Speaker 5: Left on all of your exten Look at me.
Speaker 3: You're making a mistake. You're torturing your torture doing.
Speaker 4: It some people.
Speaker 1: You can't do it.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm long forbidden.
Speaker 4: They must be.
Speaker 3: No, he will die and they can't die. You're punishing
Speaker 3: him for something they didn't do. You think they sold
Speaker 3: recept to this man, but they didn't die.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 3: I made Fancy. Tell me about it. I'm the one
Speaker 3: you want pleasant to me. You've got to believe me.
Speaker 8: I lie would not go there.
Speaker 3: I lie need yet, but I tell you an idea,
Speaker 3: and I'm the guy you want.
Speaker 2: So Untie, these ropes come on more over, there'll be
Speaker 2: a new voodoo breeze holding forward at your funeral.
Speaker 5: No use, I lie, you can the others would take
Speaker 5: the event.
Speaker 3: No use to kill these to either.
Speaker 2: Okay, Greegree, you're loose. Help Untie Fancy, Okay, I'll do
Speaker 2: it myself. I'll still fancy theres.
Speaker 3: I come on, come on, I'll get you two out
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 5: It is too late. You must go.
Speaker 3: Come on, I'll help. You'll run for us. Stay back
Speaker 3: you want to take her, I'll start knocking off voodoo.
Speaker 8: I want it out there.
Speaker 2: Regale, you're going m m, well now it goes, Haiti donner.
Speaker 2: Another corner of the world's chipped off.
Speaker 5: You'll be back here.
Speaker 2: No Fancy and Greegrey are gone to Cuban time. People
Speaker 2: learn the truth about me. Haiti's throw with Harry Lyon.
Speaker 5: You're really taking a serious dance.
Speaker 3: M after my fashion sasion. They say, messed up your meals.
Speaker 5: Take a two tonty Santi, who's sa.
Speaker 2: H.
Speaker 5: Don't worry, Harry, you will take care.
Speaker 3: Of me until the fifty thousand is gone.
Speaker 5: Well that's what I thought.
Speaker 3: A drink.
Speaker 7: Harry Lime returns in just a moment. And now, Harry Lyon,
Speaker 7: I know what you're saying. You're saying that wasn't Harry
Speaker 7: Lion at all. You're saying the noble hero that pulled
Speaker 7: off that fancy rescue part, he wasn't the same man.
Speaker 7: He was a couple of other guys. Just goes to
Speaker 7: show how I misjudge.
Speaker 2: We'll ask Fancy and Grigory, now happily keeping house in
Speaker 2: the suburb of Havanna.
Speaker 3: That's how it really was Harry Lion that got them
Speaker 3: out of that whole voodoo mess. Of course, they'll also
Speaker 3: remind you that I got them into it. And then
Speaker 3: I possibly mentioned that as the three of us dashed
Speaker 3: off into the jungle, I paused just long enough to borrow.
Speaker 2: That scepter back from the high Priest. Got a nice
Speaker 2: price for a tree from Collector and Brussels. But that's
Speaker 2: another story.
Speaker 3: So long now.
Speaker 2: And if anybody should run into Dorana anywhere in Timbuctoo,
Speaker 2: for example, at the store club, give her my love reminder.
Speaker 2: She owes me about fifteen thousand hyder in American bucks,
Speaker 2: which seem to have slipped out of a hole in
Speaker 2: my pocket or something. No hard feelings, of course, but
Speaker 2: if you get a choice between voodoo, voodoo and little Dorana,
Speaker 2: I hope you'll know what to do about it. Take
Speaker 2: the voodoo, every time.
Speaker 3: Of it.
Speaker 8: In spats, said.
Speaker 3: Blast, complete.
Speaker 8: In compass its insists against