Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man. The lives of Harry Lyon the fabulous stories of the immortal character, originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with ZIPHR music by Anton Karrah. I won't burden you with a sword of details that I met two very lovely Brazilian women named Pioneers and Aurora. They're very rich. They were in parison of buying spree, beginning several for friends in very short order. I told him I was a dealer in masterpieces of
famous painters. They were most eager to see my collection. So I began to browse around all the antique shops looking for something to sell them. And now Orson Welles has Harry Lyme the third man. In today's story, art is long and BlimE is fleeting. Please can I help you? Just look around? Thank you? Well, if you tell me what you are. I'm looking for a painting impression of school person. A few oils this way please, yeah, they are yeah, very cheap. I have one that
it would be more expensive if you would step this way. Now, this one is very good. There's a picture of a day there and in the dark light and from a considerable distance it might look a little like her in the picture would carefully this year. It had a signature on it, but luckily enough, there wasn't any inscription. Charming painting painted. It is hard to say. It's just a little bit like Renoir. Ten thousand fine. I'm sorry, man, that's over. If you said there I fine painting.
And as you say, it looks like I'll give you another thousand francs and you put the picture on the heavy old gold frame and hang on the wall. Oh no, micheur, that friend costs a much more twelve thousand tranks. No more bargaining is the deal. Oh, I'll wait for it now. I know you will appreciate it. I expect someone else to appreciate it. I'm gonna I took a sweet at the elegant George Sankor Tel hung a picture on the wall, the tiny spotlight over it. Underneath I had
a small brass plank which read simply Renoir. When I invited Dinais and a roller to have cocktails with me in my suite, that what is very funny story. It's yeady idea. It's it's true, every word of it. I do not believe it. You make it up to keep us in smiles. I do anything to keep you both in smiles. As you put it, you're very army to us, Harry, I am moved, enthusiastic to see the pink. We'll get to a strain lay and I'm another record. Not for me. One is enough and me for two? I mean two
for me, I am mixed up. I understand you perfectly. Here is me for two? Shall we not pity picture? No right, no, accept this way, says to the Florora, Thank you for your I don't compliment trying. It's all the truth. It is over dark in here, I put on and I can stand here as the bestis. Oh, it is so exciting to me to see her real, real, well exciting for me every time I look at it, and I'll switch on the overhead light my nervousness. Oh it's beautiful. I look at this picture a thousand times.
I just can't part of it as the fall of the day. That it's a taste so full of feelings. You have an ass to subjugates the tale form. Much do you want for this? I don't think I want to sell it. Oh you said you would. You are your mind changing it's true. I need the money. Well, you understand it. It's the one beautiful thing in my life. But you are a dealer. You must not to go backwards on your word. Let me think about it. It's not going after all, but we must have to have lunch tomorrow.
Decide then. If you do decide, how much do you want for it? I never sell it under four million francs million too much money if you're too hard for me to part with it, So we'll just remain friends. I do not care how much money I must buy it. We'll meet tomorrow the usual place of lunch and talk it over. In the meantime, you think about it, and I'll think about it. Harry. If I'm got you tomorrow, good, I'll be there. Yeah. A few minutes later, it's working on fine. Oh I have to do with the kids.
He'll reave them in. Then came a knock on the door. Hello Eddie for all this, So you still remember me. I thought you would have forgotten me by now. I'll never forget all friends with the partners, old man a partner. It's right. Well, they hustled me into jail. You hustled up to the Riviera with all the money. It was an accident of fate. I was off. Sorry, we corral man. There's nothing I could do. You're going to have an accident too heavy. I don't
do anything foolish. What good would it do you to shoot me? You have no idea how much good it will do me, Like water to a thirsty man. I've been waiting for two years in a Luxembourg prison for this. Listener, man, the guillotine people here in France for committing murder. If they catch then, if you put the gun down, I'll tell you about a little deal that's coming after, and i'll cut you in on it. I'm not interested, or a show will be two million friends in court,
two millions too many. Put the gun down, I'll tell you about it. You'll tell better this way, hop fast. Maybe I'll be interested to see us too when they're coming out next week. I certain I think this is a renoir hanging on the wall. Give me one million franks fort and you are going to give me half proud of shid generosity. No, not out of generosity. You can help it. Besides, you have some money coming to you. I'm going to get it too. I have very
rich Brasilian id tomorrow of lunch for drink princh the deal. I want you to be a friend of mine. You know an art dealer. I don't know anything about A thousand doesn't matters in neither. Today it's the deal. How do I know you're telling me the truth or I'm a friend? You'll just have to take my word. Oh man, I don't know how to prove it to you. Till tomorrow at noon. I'll phone the women, then out of the hotel. Yes, I'll wait. I'll be asking for
three million out of the four pig good idea. How about a drink ball? No, I hate to drink alone, ohever, I s will have myself a small one. I waiting to know until I as an Aurora returned to the hotel. Paul was satisfied that I told him the truth, and he finally left me until lunch tomorrow. I began to think of a plan to get rid of this fell. Understand people about grudges for years. It's the sign of immaturity. We had at lunch schedules. Mister Basin, what
is your opinion of impressionist pending? How does it compare with the mother I think it's very different. Mister Mazan does not particularly like moder and he hates to talk about his matter of facts. Again, any form about it isn't immediately come prehensible to everyone. Feel very strong about it and me also abstracts that to me crazy thinking, Yes, I think it's about another cup of coffee. No time, let us talk about the ah. Yes, by the way, why do you do lovely? When leaving Paris? Yet we
do not know? Maybe two weeks, maybe a more. I'm trying to leave the city. Chance everybody. We have decided to pay you four million francs. Oh did you want to think about it? So more? Shall we? But that is de prided which you give us. Oh, I am getting all the mixed up again. You have your well not exactly. Let's given another few days. You're going to be in the first few weeks. It is not verry. You don't want to tell it. Well I do, that is I'm I must, But you see, I'll try and
left. Had an offer from the front time galerries about five minutes. Oh, IDs, but I don't like this kind of business. But you said yes to four million. Yes, make a promise, I said, I might sell it before. You must understand I'm a business man, must sell it to the highest dinner after all, Why don't you forget for that while I'll be glad to show your other paintings, very fine famous artists. For my fress money, we will give you the request you ask, Well,
it's worth much more. I assure you, how do you feel about it? On this we will buy it for five If you're going to afford it, I think you're making a wise investment. I'll write a check for you in right now. Give me the check for if you don't mind, I'd rather have it in cash. Yeah, well, I have some very urgent bills to pay to take a week or seat of Christ of the bank. I'm going till this evening. You'll get the check cash at your bank.
We can meet for dinner. We'll have a real big celebration. Yeah, you will be guests to my guests. Please come to is your busy and we'll pledge your mademoiselle. Uh wes we meet, So we go to my favorite restaurant or uh tro Dajean. I know where it is or front of the best in Paris. Now I must go. I got son. I was quite pleased with the way things were going. I only regret would be that I have to leave Paris, have to leave Aurora, getting another two
funds of Aurora. She's my type, beautiful, not too encumbered with brains, which had lots of skirts and exuberance, and as I say in France, as a fair song, as a fair I had one real problem to get rid of busy and he stuck close to me like at three to the earth. And I'm going back to the hotel with you, okay, if you want to, old man, I want might be better if you went home and packed. We're gonna have to leave past now hurry. I am
staying with you until after dinner. A very suspicious fellow, Paul, I trust you as far as I could move the ipool to. Don't have to trust me. We're all meeting for dinner. Does n the restaurant can't run away? Can if you double pa have to do a show up at the restaurant? Well ick onlay started picking up the hotel. We'll go down together, all right, But if you try to do any tricks, harry out
swell, hunt you down, and I will kill you a minute. I know you're a very sincere fellow, meet me at five o'clock to nice week. Orson Wells returns. In just a moment, there's the third man well Orson Wells. As the third man continues with today's story, art is long and BlimE is fleeting. I had to work fast now that I was rid of business. I hurt you my hotel and began to pack my clothes, and I telephoned my two Brazilian customers. Hello, this is Harry. Oh
no, I just learned that the closed tonight. Of course, there's a superb Italian restaurant called the Cazabilini. Right to dress Downlia God, it's twenty three real vic twive. I made a reservation for a seven thirty, very nice. I'm I'm sorry about the change. Uh. I suppose she's gone to the bank, hasn't she that? Oh? Yeah, A, that's correct. She would be. Well make you so happy, he says, I have you much I can? Is it true? Yes, Patty,
it's true for me too. Alright. I think you're the most charming woman in all of Paris. You have to keep me stuff again. I know you and I gotta be the very best of friends. See her to nights honey, good night. She mm. I patched quietly, wrapped up the painting and got ready to leave. Soon I left my sweep better hunched them as I would change his mind. Come early. Yes, hello, Paul, you're about to leave while I was just going down to pay my bills,
and you, like you know, you're getting me awfully unpleasant. Follow man, you are getting up to something. I am getting up to five million francs for this little package here. I think you were trying to run away. I think I came just in time. We're not thinking where I ran. I still have to be at the tour dojeh at seven point thirty? Where were you going when I came into the room, Toti, I was going downstairs to pay my bill. You've been very dull, Paul.
You don't pull me. I think you better come along. We'll go down together in a little while. I'm luck here, Paul. We have three hours until we go to Todajehan. You're not going to stand there with a gun in your pocket all afternoon. That is exactly what I am going to do. And I have to go to the bank arrange with my plane tickets. You're being well, you know, being quite a battle. You never had money in the bank in your life, so happens that you are cruelly
wrong. Show me your banks. It's downstairs and hotel safe with all my other valuables. You are lying a partnership based on suspicion and mistrust. Can never be successful. Man, and we are going to be Siamese twins for the next few hours. It's no use argue. He would leave. That's your decision. You might as well sit down and get very tired standing up there for three hours. You worry about me a lot, don't. You haven't brought up that they kept the ingrained in me to be a hospital of
a post. I'm grad you're taking my advice. Likes no refreshments and drink. Friends. Just want to sit, that's right, just sit. I don't throws off now you think you're funny. My point in being grim about it. Brought some cards. Have a set of dice somewhere just a while away the time. I don't want to do anything. He just wanted to sit, that's right. He couldn't catch him off guard. He sat in the chair and kept his beady eyes on me. I don't mind people standing.
I think and as I had a gun and he discovered my affection, he would become peeved. I thought my gun might go off. Just sat there for a long time, and then even he became bored, sitting till his chair against the wall, rocky and himself back and forth, the pressure his toes against the floor. He suddenly kicked on the back of the chair, and he told would certainly give me an advanced chair. As he fell
backwards, I held myself at him, pining in his arms. He managed to get the gun out of his pocket, but I rolled a chair over his arm, and he let go of the gun. I see the gun and placed it against the back of his head on the bit he of a force. The fight was over in less than a minute. He lay there quietly. I figured be out for an hour at least mister Bez was out of the picture. Forgive us for being laid It was default of me. I took too much time to seem beautiful. You don't seem beautiful. You
are both of you unless you He's not coming. He won't be He wanted to come very much, but he was suddenly taken a he'll be all right. I'm not much hungry you make this election for us. We do not know the French word, Oh the delighted press. We've got to settle our business first, the business before pleasure, you know, Oh, eat first, there's no hurry. We roll the night. Didn't like this. I haven't seen me so eager for the painting as they were at Larnce. Maybe
they were only hungry. Maybe I'd like the attitude at all. I like your fresh Melbourne or it is superbly. It will make me fat, and then you will not like me anymore. It will make you fat, narrowdore you even more than we'll not thank you for a very fine dinner, the best we eat in Paris. Hungry please, it's your please. And now that we've eaten, shall we finish our business? You know, the run wise all wrapped up. We haven't a brandy, but we can negotiate while
we wait for the brandy. Oh you are americanos so impression. I am americanas like very much. Impatience in men is very nice. It's a custom in our country to get our business over with first the droll. In that respect, then we can all relax and enjoy ourselves, shall I, Oh, Harry, you do not say a word or evening about my frock with which I wear, for it's a beautiful dress. Perfectly, I must say that if you've changed your mind about the painting, it's perfectly all right.
You don't have to be embarrassed, Harry. We are not young man. So let's have the brandy and then we settle the business. Okay, okay, that's all. It was definitely something wrong. They were obviously stalling. That's starting for what. I was getting very uneasy. Wait about the coniac and they sipped the drop at a time for fifteen minutes. They dawdled over it and decided not to wait any longer. Force the issue. Tell us something about your sat about America, I mean, when nothing much to tell.
I grew up like any average American boy. I got interested in that, but I learned sooner that I'll never be a good painter. You wear at well, No, not you one. Now, if you'll forgive me for bringing this up again, I will give you the painting in exchange for five million francs. I'm afraid that we'll have to do it now, and not at all that we'll all feel better once once it's done. Here's the money. You can count deep. I trust you. Please, I won't
even open the end room. And here's your en one. I hope you'll enjoy it as I am. We will. Oh, I am sorry, I am late. I just couldn't get away. This is a heavy life, you do. I am peased to be to your birthday. Is an expert on Rens painting. He's from the lubom Oh, the lo. Now, if you'll just excuse you, I have got to leave. I'll just take a quick look down. I'm rest I began to figure the distance to the door of fact. This might be one of the times to run and
fight another day. Sure that the emotions, the gendarme or whatever that they accompany and the coming there won't close the door. And took care that I just have to blot it out. The experts slowly unrolled the picture, held it this way and that. How much did you agree to pay this man, mademoiselle five million? Frank mischief? Is it too much? Too much? Or not enough? I don't like your tone, that's what you mean by the light in here is too dim for me to make a definite opinion
that you could be Renoir. There is a painting of his with this same general composition. The figure is not bad. The problem was like you you think you did a real I was sure it was all right. I would like to take it with me and examine. Not thoroughly, but I can see this if it is on it is well, twenty million, twenty million, just creo. Quite as you do that, you are not going to arrest anybody. Ah, keep, you'd better do as he says. It
looks dangerous. So the pictures were twenty million. Ere, I'll take it with me, and stays you, well, you'll get a bullet and don't follow me. As I grabbed the picture and around talk about a break for the gendan a dozen. But I ran after him and stop thief, Stop, think thief all the time blessing myself and not having tied him as securely as I thought I had. All I had to it was to follow him away and then get lost. And I throw along his wake. I know
it's a couple of street are huddle around the small fire. They scattered in panic. I sprinted, tackled, he hit the sidewalk. A picture flew out of his hand. I shoved it into the fire. I prought you your robe now, teach you to steal feet. We raised the care of him. He goes whice we can put you off. Att'll kill you for this line. I'm afraid all you'll do for a while. And I spread on the bad steel of my friend. Take him away on a normbity.
I think we walked through the scision I have refused justin coming to you on the way. You have a banded captured. He had to break the wonderful, wonderful actual which you linemen. And indeed, but he's looking for a picture. Picture. It must be right here. He flew out of his hand when I tackled it. Picture burn me, if you'll be enough, it's completely gone. Of course, I made sure the picture was burned. I managed to grab a corner of it, but I had to drop it
back into the flames water. Pity. The girls and Godet were very concerned over my hand. But what's a few burns compared to a term in the local hoo'sca on five million pranks? Not to mention getting rid of Bazet. But then I saw the girl's home, and then after making a date for the next evening with Aurora, I offered to drop him at the loof, but he still had to make his rep for there is only one thing remaining
to save that you lie? Yes, what is that? I would not want you to think that I am such a bad expert that I really had any doubts about the picture. You mean that it was an original? No, I mean that, but not I see or how much do you want for nothing? Nothing? I don't. I don't get it with your line. If I had ever won, and I still who tries to sell it fate picture, the prisons of Paris would be full. I wanted only to give you a chance to get away without embarrassment. I hope this will be
a lesson to you and that you won't try it again. M hm, sure, probly. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your courtesy, your wonderful fellow. I must tell you. I want you to know what an inspiration people that you are to people like mean Carla. I'm returned in just a moment. Let's face it, friends, the world is very generously populated with months and millions of mugs just waiting like the proverbial sheep for the proverbial fleecing. In fact, if they weren't showing from time to time they
wouldn't be comfortable. Always makes me laugh to read that one of the mugs was an innocent victim of a confidence game. And just how innocent I ask you, if you want to plant beaten to your door, don't waste your energy inventing a better mouse trapped Now, I'll just hang a sign out scarce items at prices you want to pay. However, do we meet again, look out for yourselves. Remember if you don't, no one else will. Its in it, indition, it it and in its int