Horseplay
Broadcast: 23rd November 1951
Added: Jul 19 2004
Harry Lime, “If I were an honest man, which would be silly on the face of it, this would be my sermon: Any character that gets swindled is asking for it you can’t swindle a man unless he’s so full of larceny that his very breathing is crooked. This to a man of my talents would be disconcerting if I didn’t know that 9m people out of 10 are full of larceny like a certain American man named Harris who not so long ago came to Paris for a holiday. Strictly in Mr Harris’s honour I concocted a juicy little swindle called horse play…”