Broadcast: 26th October 1951

Starring: Orson Welles

Added: Dec 27 2003

Harry Lime: “A fellow I once knew told me I was a poet, but he was so wrong. Poets are always singing about brooks and skylarks and daffodils and the women they’re faithful to in their fashion, a sort of merry widow waltz. I, if I sang at all would sing about money and the women I’ve known, but in an offbeat rhythm. Money and women somehow they go together and neither is much use without the other, at least that’s the stuff that Harry Lime sings. Those are the themes to which he dances in life’s ballet, sometimes pleasant occasionally a little painful, like that time in Teheran…”