Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry met his end - but in radio’s first prequel, Welles resumed the role in “The Lives of Harry Lime”, a series produced in England by Harry Alan Towers. The programs present Lime’s criminal adventures before he met his doom - bank heists, confidence schemes, swindles, and such - in a series of witty and well written lighthearted dramas featuring Welles and a virtual stock company of talented actors in adventures set in such exotic locales as Paris, Venice, Tangiers, and the French Riviera.
This ten-hour Radio Archives collection features the first twenty shows from the series, transferred directly from original transcription recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity.
Programs include:
Too Many Crooks - August 3, 1951
See Naples and Live -August 10, 1951
Clay Pigeon - August 17, 1951
A Ticket to Tangiers - August 24, 1951
Voodoo - August 31, 1951
The Bohemian Star - September 7, 1951
Love Affair - September 14, 1951
Rogue's Holiday - September 21, 1951
Work of Art - September 28, 1951
Operation Music Box - October 5, 1951
Golden Fleece - October 12, 1951
Blue Bride - October 19, 1951
Every Frame Has a Silver Lining - October 26, 1951
Mexican Hat Trick - November 2, 1951
Art is Long and Lime is Fleeting - November 9, 1951
In Pursuit of a Ghost - November 16, 1951
Horse Play - November 23, 1951
Three Farthings for Your Thoughts - November 30, 1951
The Third Woman - December 7, 1951
An Old Moorish Custom - December 14, 1951
