Episode 448 - Stars of "The Third Man"

Summary

Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)

Episode 448 – Stars of "The Third Man"

Date: April 16, 2026
Host: Mean Streets Podcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of Stars on Suspense celebrates the legendary Hollywood stars of The Third Man, spotlighting their performances in classic old time radio thrillers. The host introduces a suite of broadcasts featuring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, including:

• Two iconic Suspense episodes: “The Dark Tower” (Orson Welles) and “Fly By Night” (Joseph Cotten)
• A Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man (with Joseph Cotten reprising his film role)
• A bonus: Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in “Clay Pigeon” from his British radio series, The Lives of Harry Lime.

The host shares personal reflections on The Third Man film, praising its atmosphere, cast, and musical score, and sets up the radio adaptations as thrilling extensions of the film’s noir themes.

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Key Segments & Discussions

[00:52] Introduction & Reflections on The Third Man

• Main Points:

  • Overview of the episode’s theme: Celebrating the stars of The Third Man in classic radio “Suspense.”
  • Quick synopsis of The Third Man film—its postwar Vienna setting, noir mysteries, and legendary performances.
  • Special praise for Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, both as film and radio stars.

• Quote:

  "It’s a beautiful movie. The cinematography is gorgeous, the score is haunting, and the performances are brilliant. If you haven’t seen it in a while, I cannot recommend it enough." (Host, 01:30)

• Context: The host’s personal connection to The Third Man and enthusiasm for its transition to radio.

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“The Dark Tower” (Suspense, May 4, 1944)

[10:28–35:18] Orson Welles Stars as Damon Wellington

• Plot Summary:

  • The Wellington theatrical family is haunted by a murder mystery tied to Jessica Wellington’s breakdown and sinister manipulations from her deceased-but-not-dead husband, Stanley Vance.
  • Themes of mental control, stage rivalry, and family secrets unravel through melodramatic, witty dialogue.

• Key Moments & Quotes:

  • Damon Wellington’s wit:

    "What would you have me subsist entirely on? Food and reach the gargantuan proportions of an Orson Welles? That ought to needle the boy wonder." (Damon, 12:00)

  • Confrontation about Jessica’s Trauma:

    "Damon, don’t you realize there’s been a murder?... Jessica can’t remember." (Ben Wellington, 13:08)

  • Revelation:

    "So you see, Ben, there is your murderer: Mr. Max Hartsfield. And I hope you’re duly grateful to him. An elusive fellow, Hartsfield. The police have been trying to find him for two weeks. They never will." (Damon, 33:00)

  • Signature Welles humor and theatricality pervade.

• Memorable Scene/Campy Banter:

  "You called me a ham!" "You are a ham." "Ham, ham!" "Minx, minx!" (16:45)

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“Fly By Night” (Suspense, September 28, 1950)

[37:47–64:40] Joseph Cotten as Wrongfully Accused Mickey Manning

• Plot Summary:

  • Mickey Manning is coerced into confessing to a murder after 72 sleepless hours, only to realize he’s been framed for his wife’s inheritance.
  • As he untangles the plot, he discovers betrayal at the core of his own family.

• Key Moments & Quotes:

  • Interrogation and Confession:

    "I didn’t kill Garvin...all they had to do was keep me without sleep for 72 hours. After that, a man will do anything just to be allowed to shut his eyes. So I signed a confession because I just wanted to sleep." (Manning/Cotten, 42:53)

  • Twist Revelation:

    "Charlie hadn’t said a word about it...Charlie was the one who had framed me." (Manning, 58:52)

  • Final Confrontation:

    "Had two people killed for that money, just to get rid of me. Why didn’t you just kill me and leave the others alone?" (Manning, 62:22)

  • Femme Fatale Turn:

    "So I framed you, Driscoll. And I framed you. Driscoll killed Garvin, killed Minutti, now Driscoll." (Mary Manning, 61:41)

  • Host remarks on Cotten’s talent for vulnerable, tightly-wound protagonists.

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“The Third Man” (Lux Radio Theatre, April 9, 1951)

[67:34–122:28] Lux Radio Theatre—Feature Presentation

• Cast:

  • Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
  • Evelyn Keyes as Anna Schmidt
  • Ted de Courcia as Harry Lime (in place of Orson Welles)

• Plot Summary:

  • A faithful adaptation of The Third Man film: American writer Holly Martins arrives in a divided Vienna to discover his friend Harry Lime’s mysterious death and the shadows of black market crime. He encounters Anna, seeds of betrayal, and the iconic “third man” mystery.

• Key Moments & Quotes:

  • Vienna's Suspenseful Setting:

    "Into this atmosphere of cunning and subterfuge comes an American, only to take up the trail of the unknown murderer of his friend." (William Keeley, 68:07)

  • Holly Martins’ self-deprecation:

    "Don't get any ideas about money. I'm broke. Harry even sent me the plane ticket." (Cotten, 70:19)

  • The Infamous Ferris Wheel Scene:

    "Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped—would you really,

Transcript

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Would you hand me that please?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Thank you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Now, let's see. Survey Survive.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Susanna.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Suspect. Ah, here we are. Suspense. Meaning held in doubt, expressing doubt. The state of being uncertain, undecided or insecure. State of anxious expectation or waiting for information such as to keep one in suspense. Therefore delay acquainting him with what he

[Daemon Van Weston]

is eager to know.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Suspense.

[Host/Narrator]

Hello and welcome to Stars on Suspense with more Hollywood legends in radio's outstanding theater of Thrills. All this month I'm sharing some of my favorite movies and we're continuing this week with the Third Man, Carol Reed's classic film noir about a man who comes to post war Vienna for his best friend's funeral and who discovers secrets that put his life and the life of the woman he loves in danger. I'm not going to say any more because if you've never seen the Third man, there are twists and surprises aplenty. All of it plays out to a memorable zithers score composed by Anton Karras, and it features a great cast. Joseph Cotton is the American pulp novel writer who arrives in Vienna determined to solve the mystery of his best friend's death. Trevor Howard is the British military policeman who both helps and hinders his efforts. Alita Valli as his late friend's girlfriend, a woman who soon catches Cotton's eye. And of course, Orson Welles in what's arguably his best big screen performance. I first saw this movie in my 10th grade English class after we read Graham Greene's novella that served as the treatment for the screenplay. It's a beautiful movie. The cinematography is gorgeous, the score is haunting and the performances are brilliant. If you've never seen it or if you haven't seen it in a while, I cannot recommend it enough. You can rent or buy the Third man digitally through your preferred retailers. As of this recording, you can stream it via Prime Video and you can get it on Blu Ray and 4K, but the latter is available as an exclusive order only from the Lionsgate Limited website. Today we'll hear Messrs. Wells and Cotton, two frequent co stars in episodes of Suspense. Wells stars as a mercurial actor, a real stretch in the dark tower from May 4, 1944. And Cotten plays a man on the run in Fly by night from September 28, 1950. Then Joseph Cotton recreates his film role on the Lux Radio Theater Theater, an episode from April 9, 1951. Ted de Courcia steps into Orson Welles shoes for this production, but we'll still hear Orson Welles as Harry Lime, not in a recreation of the film but in his own radio series, a show produced in England and syndicated in the States, it's the Lives of Harry Lime. And we'll hear the episode Clay Pigeon. We'll head to Vienna, but first it's Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton in suspense. We'll kick things off with the Dark Tower right after these messages.

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[Mickey Manning]

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[Daemon Van Weston]

Two whole days to relax and have fun. You'll be planning picnics and backyard barbecues. Just be sure there's plenty of Paed

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Blue Ribbon cooling in your icebox tomorrow morning.

[Daemon Van Weston]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Mickey Manning]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

keep you in suspense.

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[Martha]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

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[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And now with the Dark Tower and with the performance of our star, Orson Welles as that noted actor Damon Wellington, scion of the celebrated royal family of

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

stage and screen, we again hope to

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

keep you in suspense.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You dare.

[Daemon Van Weston]

You dare call me a ham varlet? I will prove to the world there are no brains within that thick Teutonic skull. I'll cleave it open like an overripe melon. Who thus profanes the rehearsal of the lines. Enter. If thou art man of woman born, I fear thee not. Hello, Daemon Van Weston, you old son of a gun. I heard you were back from the coast. What news in the Rialto from that cesspool of the arts known as Hollywood? Have they turned my picture to the wall at the Brown Derby yet? No, it's still there. I despise myself for wanting to know.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Of course.

[Daemon Van Weston]

It's marvelous to have you back, Ben.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, boy.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Seen Jessica yet?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, I've seen her.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Isn't she looking fine? Feeling better than she has for years. I think you got a great thing in this play, Ben. Changed quite a bit from the original, of course. Sort of a satire on the family. Perhaps it might be more dignified to say that the family is a satire on the play. Yes, I heard about it. For instance, those lines you heard me declaiming as you entered actually happened to me once. You know that German, what's his name, who directed Macbeth? He called me a ham and I chased him out of the theater and for four city blocks in full costume with a two edged sword. Damon, there's a little thing I like in the second act, too. Jessica asked me why I don't stop drinking. And I say, what would you have me subsist entirely on? Food and reach the gargantuan proportions of an Orson Welles? That ought to needle a boy wonder.

[Max Hartsfield]

Amen.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Damon. Can't you stop clowning for a minute?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Of course I can. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave daemon. Please, please be serious. What's the matter, old man?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You know as well as I do what's the matter.

[Daemon Van Weston]

No, frankly, I can't say that I do. To me, the world looks rather well.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Does it? And Jessica?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Feeling better than she has for years, is she? Well, isn't she?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Of course not.

[Daemon Van Weston]

How could she be? And why shouldn't she be?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Damon, don't you realize there's been a murder?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Oh, to be sure. So there has. And a good thing too, if you ask me. What of it?

[Stanley Vance]

What of it?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Can't you see the thing is hanging over this house like a.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Like a curse?

[Daemon Van Weston]

I hadn't noticed anything hanging over this house, profane or otherwise.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And what about Jessica?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Oh, I suppose it's bound to upset her a little. But she's really in fine shape, Ben. He's going to be marvelous in this play. There's more at stake in this than a play.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

The thing has never been solved.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Perhaps it never will be. Perhaps that's just as well. But Jessica can't remember. Don't you understand, Damon? She can't remember. Well, then, Jessica can't remember.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Listen to me, Damon. I wouldn't mind it if it was just that other people thought she might have done it, but they would do that anyway. But.

[Daemon Van Weston]

But she does. Ah, come on, Ben. I don't believe I talked to her, Damon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I know.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Damon, I love Jessica more than anything else in the world.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You know that.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Yes, Ben, I do.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

This way. I. I couldn't.

[Daemon Van Weston]

You couldn't marry a murderess. I just think it would be rather exciting. Now that you mention it, I rather wish I had instead of some of those. I did marry.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Damon.

[Daemon Van Weston]

I'm sorry. Pretty serious to you, isn't it, old man? Did you think it wouldn't be? I'll tell you the truth, Ben. I hadn't thought about it at all. That's the trouble with being an actor. As long as your heart's good, you don't give a hang about the rest of the play. Have you told Jessica?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes.

[Daemon Van Weston]

We had a long talk. How did she take it?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You know Jessica. She carried it off, of course.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Ben, you know, in spite of all our histrionic bickering, I'm rather nuts about Jessica myself.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I know you are, Damon.

[Daemon Van Weston]

I have no very fundamental objections to you either. I would describe you, my dear Benjamin, as adequate. Thanks. So I think perhaps you and I'd better have a nice long heart to Heart talk.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What good will talking do?

[Daemon Van Weston]

I think, if you'll do the listening and let me do the talking.

[Stanley Vance]

You'll see.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Lend me your ears.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I will.

[Daemon Van Weston]

A tale unfold. Well, Jessica, as you know, had been in a sanitarium for nearly a year. She hadn't been on the stage in more than two years. The Dark Tower was to be her first attempt to work again. All that time. I know it isn't the greatest play in the world but it has a sure fire box office appeal. Jessica needed that to get her confidence back. Well, we were just polishing up a few last minute changes here at the house. David Torrance, the. You know, he's there with us. And of course, the usual little difference.

[Mary Manning]

And another thing, Damon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

When you kick me in the middle

[Jessica Wellington]

of the second act, where you know perfectly well where is it absolutely essential that you boot me halfway across the stage?

[Daemon Van Weston]

What do you want me to do? Pull my punches? That's one of the high spots in the show.

[Mary Manning]

It may be a high spot to

[Jessica Wellington]

you, darling, but it's just a black and blue spot to me.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Very well. Henceforth, I shall appear for the second act on crutches. You know, Uncle David, that's not a bad idea. Oh, now, Damon, let's be serious.

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[Daemon Van Weston]

I'm quite serious. I could throw him at her.

[Jessica Wellington]

You might try throwing me a cue once in a while. The use of having a play if you just make up the lines as you go along.

[Daemon Van Weston]

The critics thought my ad libbing very witty. Remember, dear?

[Jessica Wellington]

Oh, Damon, you're such an insufferable.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Ham. A ham. A ham.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Me, a ham? Now, children, please. I fail to see why I should permit that little minx to insult me with impunity.

[Mary Manning]

David, how dare you speak to me that way.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You started it.

[Mary Manning]

I did not.

[Daemon Van Weston]

You started.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You called me a ham.

[Mary Manning]

You are ham. Ham, ham.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Minx, minx, minx.

[Mary Manning]

Stop that brawling.

[Daemon Van Weston]

But soft. What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Martha is the sun.

[Martha]

I quite agree.

[Daemon Van Weston]

What?

[Martha]

That you're a ham?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Gad, I'm beset by harpies.

[Martha]

David, haven't you any control over these hirelings of yours?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, I'm only the producer. My dear Martha, you at least are a member of the family.

[Martha]

And you at least can quit.

[Jessica Wellington]

We're terribly sorry, Aunt Martha. We've been a nuisance.

[Mary Manning]

I know, and I apologize.

[Jessica Wellington]

Damon, I even apologize to you.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Don't be silly, Jim.

[Jessica Wellington]

I've been much the worst. I know, but I've Really Been terribly keyed up working again. And you know, Ben is coming east for the opening.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Love rears its ugly head.

[Martha]

Don't be horrid, Damon.

[Jessica Wellington]

It's all right. I couldn't even be angry if he was. Anyway, I'll have a husband to protect me by this time next week.

[Daemon Van Weston]

I can lick him with one hand tied behind me.

[Jessica Wellington]

Damon, seriously. I know I owe you an awful lot. Me, I hadn't actually realized how far I'd gone. These last six months have been like coming alive again. The play and Ben. Thanks, demon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Good Lord.

[Jessica Wellington]

Now I think I'll dress for dinner.

[Mary Manning]

Let's all go out to the. I'll get it, Aunt Martha.

[Jessica Wellington]

Where would you like to go?

[Martha]

To a rest home.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hello?

[Jessica Wellington]

Who? No, no, he's not here. He's not here, I tell you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

He's dead.

[Martha]

Oh, darling, what is

[Jessica Wellington]

was. For Stanley.

[Martha]

For Stanley?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yeah.

[Martha]

Never mind, darling.

[Jessica Wellington]

It's all right.

[Martha]

Just some fool who didn't know, of course.

[Jessica Wellington]

Damon, you take David and Martha to dinner, will you? I think I'll lie down for a little while.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Come on, Jess. You mustn't let a little thing like that upset you.

[Jessica Wellington]

I know, but I'm awfully tired.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Please, Jessica. You'd better leave her alone for a while, Martha.

[Martha]

Oh, I suppose so.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

It was for Stanley Vance, the husband, huh?

[Martha]

Yes.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

He's dead, you say?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Might as well tell him about it, Martha.

[Martha]

I was always for telling about it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, you don't have to.

[Martha]

I'd rather he was the cause of her breakdown. Of course.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Should have been an actor. That's why Jessica married him.

[Martha]

She married him because he forced her to marry him. He controlled that girl's mind like some sort of fiendish hypnotist.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Martha, I've always said that if Jessica was fool enough, that Maria.

[Martha]

Psychoamor demon. Stop playing the heartless brother. You saw what Stanley did to her.

[Daemon Van Weston]

I was in Hollywood.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Perhaps that's why Damon went to Hollywood, huh?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Well, what could one do? She was legally married to the man she'd listened to. No one but him.

[Martha]

Here's what happened, David. She went to this fellow to be psychoanalyzed, and in the process, something happened. I don't know what it was, but Vance acquired a power over Jessica's mind that was utterly inhuman. He married her, quite frankly, to have her support him. Then he found he'd overplayed his hand and sent her into a complete mental collapse. When he found he couldn't snap her out of it and she was no longer a source of revenue to him, he simply decamped.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You say Vance is now dead?

[Daemon Van Weston]

We heard the happy news about six months ago. Some public benefactor had shot him. I've always meant to look that fellow up.

[Martha]

From that very day she began to get better. From the moment she heard the news, it was as though a spell had been lifted.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Now she's practically all well.

[Daemon Van Weston]

You know, it's odd. If that's someone phoning for him after all these months.

[Martha]

Probably the sheriff just catching up.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Oh, I wonder who that could be.

[Martha]

Damon, you don't suppose.

[Daemon Van Weston]

I'll go. It may be a peasant with a petition. Good evening, my dear Martha, you are positively psychic. The honorable Stanley Vance.

[Stanley Vance]

Thank you. I trust the shock will not be too great.

[Daemon Van Weston]

One knoweth not the place nor the hour when the bridegroom cometh does one.

[Stanley Vance]

My luggage will be here shortly.

[Martha]

Listen to me, Stanley Vance.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Good evening, Martha.

[Stanley Vance]

I regret to arrive so unceremoniously. I have been ill.

[Daemon Van Weston]

So we have been told. We have been assured, however, that your illness was fatal.

[Jessica Wellington]

Damon, I thought I. Danny.

[Stanley Vance]

Jessica. My poor, poor darling Danny. Oh, but you're ill, my dear, aren't you? You're ill. You should be resting. You're tired and exhausted, aren't you? Terribly, terribly tired.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, I am tired.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, great.

[Jessica Wellington]

Terribly tired.

[Stanley Vance]

I'll take you up to your room, darling. I take it we still have the same room.

[Martha]

Listen to me, Stanley Vance.

[Stanley Vance]

The poor girl. You can see how weak.

[Martha]

If you think you're going to stay under this roof for a single minute, get out.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Very well.

[Martha]

Get out.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Very well.

[Stanley Vance]

If you insist on being inhospitable, Martha, you'll pack your things, Jessica. We'll go to an hotel.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes. Yes, Stanley.

[Martha]

Jessica.

[Jessica Wellington]

But I'm so tired. Will you help me, Stanley?

[Stanley Vance]

Of course I will, my dear. Come along, Stanley. Yes, Martha.

[Martha]

All right, Stanley, you win.

[Stanley Vance]

You're asking us to avail ourselves of your hospitality, Martha.

[Martha]

Yes, you can stay.

[Stanley Vance]

That's very sweet of you, Martha. Isn't it, darling?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes. Yes, Stanley.

[Martha]

But somehow, someday there'll be a time of reckoning for you, Stanley Vance. And until it comes, keep out of my sight.

[Stanley Vance]

The pleasure will be all mine. Come, darling, we'll go to our room now.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, Stanley.

[Martha]

Daemon.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Yes, my aged auntie daemon.

[Martha]

What are we going to do?

[Daemon Van Weston]

I don't know what you're going to do, ducky, but I'm going down to the Lambs Club and have a quadruple scotch and soda. You may think it heartless of me, but during the next few days I simply stayed away. I think you'll understand my reasons later. As for Jessica, she was of course, completely in his power again. And about a week later there appeared before the scene a gentleman who was destined to play a very substantial role in our little drama. I think you've already met him. At least on one occasion.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I'll get it.

[Stanley Vance]

Jessica, darling.

[Charlie Borden]

Hello?

[Stanley Vance]

No, Mr. Damon Wellington isn't here. Can I take a message, please? Mr. Max Hartsfeld. Hartsfeld. I'll tell him you called. Mr. Hartsfell. I really couldn't say. And you can come up and wait if you like, of course. But I can't promise he'll see you. Very well. Goodbye. Jessica.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, Stanley?

[Stanley Vance]

Do you know any friend of Damon's named Max Hartsfield?

[Jessica Wellington]

No, Stanley.

[Stanley Vance]

He seemed extremely eager to see him. He said he'd come up here and wait.

[Jessica Wellington]

Oh, I see.

[Stanley Vance]

It's no matter. Tell me, darling, have you been feeling a little stronger these last few days?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, I think perhaps I am, Stanley.

[Stanley Vance]

But of course you're not ready to go back on the stage again, are you, darling?

[Jessica Wellington]

No, of course not, Stanley.

[Stanley Vance]

Poor darling.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No more love. No more.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Well, my little lovebirds. How are you two? How are you, Jessica?

[Jessica Wellington]

A little stronger, I think. Am I a little stronger, Stanley?

[Stanley Vance]

Of course you are, my dear. Jessica, I think you'd better leave us now. There's something I want to talk over with Damon.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, Stanley.

[Stanley Vance]

I'll see you again very shortly, darling.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes.

[Stanley Vance]

Well, Damon, I've been wanting to talk to you for some time.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Really? I wish I could say the same.

[Stanley Vance]

I suppose you realize, Damon, that it's out of the question for Jessica to go on in the play in her present condition.

[Daemon Van Weston]

It's kind of the point. We events have a pressing engagement with a pin up girl and I have got to change into my zoot suit.

[Stanley Vance]

No, seriously, Damon. I know that you somehow connect me with Jessica's condition.

[Daemon Van Weston]

An odd coincidence. I do? What of it?

[Stanley Vance]

I know it would make you and everyone very happy if Jessica could go on in the play.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Aha.

[Daemon Van Weston]

The light at last illuminates maddled wits. So it's a shakedown. A shakedown, is it, Stanley?

[Stanley Vance]

My dear Damon, I really don't know what you're talking.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Look here, my Larson law. I've been shaken down by experts on every conceivable count, including the man act in my time and I can smell him a mile away. What you propose is that for certain financial considerations, you will leave this happy home, Jessica will recover and she can go on in the play. The answer is no.

[Stanley Vance]

There won't be any play without her.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Are you suggesting that my name is not sufficient to draw the suckers? I can get a dozen people to play Jessica's part. Margaret o', Brien, Marjorie Main, Daisy Agnes Moorhead. Makes no difference to me. Anybody at all.

[Stanley Vance]

Don't try to bluff me, Damon. After all this build up, you won't dare go on without Jessica.

[Daemon Van Weston]

You little know me, stinky. You may consider your little farce as having closed on opening night. As for Jessica, I'm very much afraid that she's made her bed and now she'll have to lie in it. There's no cure for her short of murder with yourself as victim. And I do not propose to put my neck in the hangman's noose. Good night.

[Stanley Vance]

I think you'll see things my way a little later, Dame.

[Roma Wines Announcer]

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[Daemon Van Weston]

By the way, did I have any calls?

[Stanley Vance]

Oh, yes, a Max Hartzfeld call. Said he was coming up here to wait for you.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Good heavens. When?

[Stanley Vance]

He's on his way now, I imagine.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Look, tell him I'm out, will you? Gone to Hollywood or something. Fellow's been pestering me all week. Wants to buy into the show and I simply don't want to see him.

[Stanley Vance]

He wants to buy into the show?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Yes. He does not share your lamentable lack of faith in my talent, Stanley. And he's dying to buy into the show.

[Stanley Vance]

Does he know Jessica won't be able to appear?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Of course he does, you idiot. Everybody does. Don't you read the trade papers? And now, good night. Repulsive. I have other fish to fry.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Toodaloo.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Flat top.

[Stanley Vance]

Jessica. Oh, Jessica, my dear.

[Jessica Wellington]

I'm coming soon.

[Stanley Vance]

Tell me, Jessica, the Dark Tower. The play you are going to appear in with Damon. You have an interest in it, don't you?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes. Yes, I think I do.

[Stanley Vance]

An equal interest with Damon.

[Jessica Wellington]

With Damon? Yes.

[Stanley Vance]

How much do you suppose that interest is worth, Jessica?

[Jessica Wellington]

A hundred thousand dollars, I think.

[Stanley Vance]

A hundred thousand dollars?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, that was it.

[Stanley Vance]

Have you thought about what you're going to do with it now that you can't appear in the play yourself?

[Jessica Wellington]

No, Stanley, I haven't.

[Stanley Vance]

You see, I'm not at all sure the play will be a success without you, Jessica.

[Jessica Wellington]

I don't know, Stanley.

[Stanley Vance]

And so it might be wise to sell your share of it before it opens. Don't you agree, Jessica?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes. Yes, I do agree.

[Stanley Vance]

And, Jessica, if I could find a buyer, and I think perhaps I can, it might be best if I were to handle the details for you. Don't you think?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, Stanley, you handle It.

[Stanley Vance]

The fact of the matter is there's a man coming up here this evening, a friend of Damon's. Max Hartsfeld. Do you remember I asked you about him?

[Martha]

Yes.

[Stanley Vance]

It won't be any trouble to you, darling. All you'll have to do is sign the necessary papers.

[Max Hartsfield]

Excuse me. Is this the residence of Mr. Damon Wellington, Mr. Hartsfield?

[Martha]

Yes.

[Stanley Vance]

Oh, come in, please.

[Jessica Wellington]

Thank you.

[Max Hartsfield]

Mr. Wellington is at home?

[Stanley Vance]

No, and we don't expect him. But he has discussed with me the reason for your visit, and I think perhaps you and I can reach a satisfactory agreement.

[Max Hartsfield]

And you are?

[Stanley Vance]

Stanley Vance. I'm Ms. Wellington's husband. This is my wife.

[Jessica Wellington]

How do you do?

[Max Hartsfield]

How do you do? I'm very glad.

[Stanley Vance]

Sit down, please. Mr. Hartsfield. May I have your hat and coat?

[Max Hartsfield]

Thank you.

[Stanley Vance]

And your gloves, please.

[Max Hartsfield]

I'm sorry. It's the eccentricity, perhaps. I always keep them on.

[Stanley Vance]

Oh, Mr. Hartfield. Damon tells me that you wish to buy an interest in the new Wellington play, the Dark Tower.

[Max Hartsfield]

Yes, I. I've been seeking an interview with Mr. Warrington.

[Stanley Vance]

Yes, so he's told me. However, Damon has very definitely made up his mind not to sell any part of his interview. Interest in the play.

[Max Hartsfield]

You are sure of this, Mr. Vance?

[Stanley Vance]

Oh, yes, quite sure. I had a long talk with him about it only this evening.

[Max Hartsfield]

I see. I will not conceal from you that this is a source of great disappointment to me, Mr. Vance. I have such a deep admiration for the talents of Mr. Wellington. I ventured in a few previous theatrical enterprises. Now, at last.

[Stanley Vance]

I hope I quite understand your feelings, Mr. Hartsfield. And I think that I may be able to help you. Yes, yes. You see, Damon owns only half of the Wellington interest in the Play. My wife, Ms. Jessica Wellington, owns the

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

other half, and she.

[Baron Kurtz]

We.

[Stanley Vance]

If the offer were sufficiently attractive.

[Max Hartsfield]

Indeed you are willing to sell then, Ms. Wellington?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, whatever Stanley says.

[Stanley Vance]

Good. Then perhaps we should get down to details.

[Max Hartsfield]

Yes, Mr. Vance. And, Ms. Wellington, I'm afraid you will think me very rude.

[Stanley Vance]

Not at all.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What is it?

[Max Hartsfield]

Since the talents of Miss Wellington's brother must be considered the very essence of our bargaining, and since you are acting as her agent in any event, I wonder if she would forgive me if I ask that you and I conclude this part of our business alone, Mr. Vance.

[Stanley Vance]

Of course. Jessica will understand perfectly. Won't you, my dear?

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Run along then, darling.

[Stanley Vance]

I'll call you when we need you.

[Jessica Wellington]

Yes, Stanley.

[Max Hartsfield]

Now, Mr. Vance, I imagine you will wish to know a little more about the man with whom you're dealing. Here's My card. I'm staying at the Waldorf. I've written the room number on the card for you.

[Stanley Vance]

Oh, there's no need, really.

[Max Hartsfield]

Yes, but before we discuss terms, there is one other thing.

[Stanley Vance]

Yes?

[Max Hartsfield]

I wonder. You do not know me, do you, Mr. Wentz? You do not know why I've been looking forward with such pleasure to an interview with you alone.

[Stanley Vance]

I know.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I.

[Max Hartsfield]

It's very simple. It's very simple. Really, Mr. Wentz, it's just that I'm. I'm going to kill you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

To kill me?

[Stanley Vance]

Really, Mr. Hartzell?

[Max Hartsfield]

With these two hands. And before you die.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Before you die, I want you to know the reason. Jessica.

[Stanley Vance]

No.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

No.

[Daemon Van Weston]

So you see, Ben, there is your murderer, Mr. Max Hartsfield. And I hope you're duly grateful to him. An elusive fellow. Hartsfield. The police have been trying to find him for two weeks. They never will.

[Max Hartsfield]

No fingerprints. You see, he always kept his gloves on. It's an eccentricity.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Damon. Wait a minute.

[Max Hartsfield]

Do you mean you, my dear mutton?

[Daemon Van Weston]

My dear muttonhead? Listen, darling, the whole thing's perfectly clear. It's as plain as the putty nose on Max Hartsfield's face.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I still can't get it into my head.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Benjamin, if you don't know who Max Hartsfield is by now, you are the only person within the sound of my voice who does not. You mean you impersonated?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Then it wasn't Jessica?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Jessica? She never could have done it. The girl has talent, but no genius.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

But Damon. Murder.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Murder, he says. Dear friend, you share with me a guilty secret. Your lips are sealed. Come. In the words of Hamlet. Never, so help you mercy. Note that you know aught of me. Swear by my sword.

[Stanley Vance]

What?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Swear.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I swear.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Well said, old mole. I think that winds up the case. Watson. Jessica will receive by registered post a signed confession by Max Hartzman, bound in vellum. That should end her worries. You may consider it as my wedding present. It will be a work not without literary merit. Although written lefty, I should prefer it to be published posthumously. I look forward to a long and brilliant career in the theater. I should not care to terminate it abruptly upon so paltry a characterization as the late Max Hartsfield. Music curtain.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And so closes the Dark tower by Alexander Wolcott and George S. Kaufman, and starring Orson Welles. Tonight's tale of suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by William Speer.

[Roma Wines Announcer]

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[Daemon Van Weston]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Daemon Van Weston]

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[Roma Wines Announcer]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Daemon Van Weston]

This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen. Next week's Suspense will, as is its policy from time to time, do the unexpected in the way of casting. Because you're going to hear the country's leading comic juvenile, Mr. Eddie Bracken, as a dramatic actor.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

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[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Autolite and its 96,000 dealers present suspense. Night Auto Light brings you Fly by Night a suspense play starring Mr. Joseph Cotton.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Well, Manning, how about signing this confession?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I want my lawyer.

[Sergeant Kogan]

You don't need a lawyer. Not if you tell the truth.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

My wife's cousin, Charles Borden, he's a lawyer.

[Mickey Manning]

I want him.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Look, Manning, we know you killed Gov. And all you have to do is admit it.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I didn't do it.

[Mickey Manning]

It's a frame. I told you.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Just as soon as you confess, you can go to sleep. A bargain.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I didn't kill Garvin.

[Sergeant]

Don't be stubborn.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Manny didn't do it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Frame.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Then how come that boy Benuti saw you? He says he saw you leave Garvin's apartment at 11:30, just after the shoot left at Tenuti's.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Liar.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Why should Bernuti lie?

[Mickey Manning]

Let me talk to him or I'll find out.

[Sergeant]

What's to find out? You hated Garvin. You don't deny that, do you?

[Sergeant Kogan]

Garvin accuses you of stealing Money from the business throws you out, so you kill him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Couldn't throw me out, old partner. Let me alone.

[Sergeant Kogan]

You killed him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Sleep.

[Sergeant]

Not until you sign this confession.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Sign this confession and we won't bother you anymore. You can lie down on my bed here in my apartment and sleep till you can't look sleep in the face anymore. Come on, Manning, be smart. You were your.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Wait a minute. He's asleep. Oh, come on, Manning.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Confessor. I'll keep you awake forever.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

All right, all right, all right.

[Sergeant Kogan]

You sign the confession.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll sign it. Sleep.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Put the killer to bed. Coogan.

[Sergeant]

In just a moment. Mr. Joseph Cotton in the first act of Fly by Night.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

See, Harlow, I went to a carnival last night.

[Sergeant]

And that human skeleton thin, huh?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, practically transparent. Lives on bread and drinks water only once a week.

[Sergeant]

Once a week? Well, that's nothing, Hap. Auto light stay full. Batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And they had a strong man who lifted a horse.

[Sergeant]

One horse. Listen, Hap, the auto light stay full. Battery can snap up a hundred horses in your car's engine without even half trying. But they have a big advantage.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And what's that?

[Sergeant]

Auto light stay full. Batteries have fiberglass retaining mats to help reduce flaking and shedding and thus protect the power of every positive plate.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And there was a flagpole sitter at the carnival too. He's out to break the record.

[Sergeant]

He'll never break the Autolite stay full battery record, Hap. Because you can't buy a better battery for your car.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Now, you're sharper than a sword swallower's supper, Harlow.

[Sergeant]

Thank you, Hap. And friends, see your Autolite battery dealer and ask him for an Autolite stay full battery. The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. And remember, you're always right with Autolight.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And now with Fly By Night and the performance of Mr. Joseph Cotton, autolight hopes once again to keep you in suspense.

[Sergeant]

Wake up.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Huh?

[Sergeant]

Wake up, Manning. Wake up. Come on, get up. You had your eight hours sleep. Let's go call him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What?

[Daemon Van Weston]

What?

[Sergeant]

Don't you remember? You signed a confession. Admitted you murdered Leo Garvin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, I didn't do it.

[Mickey Manning]

I didn't kill Garvin.

[Sergeant]

Come on into the bathroom and shave.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Here.

[Sergeant]

Lieutenant Driscoll left this shirt for you to change into. Wants you to look nice for the photographer.

[Mickey Manning]

I didn't do it. When I left Garvin, it was 10 o' clock and he was alive.

[Sergeant]

Yeah, yeah. Save it for the courtroom. They'll be real impressed with a signed confession. I'll swear you forced me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Sure.

[Sergeant]

So what? You can't swear Venuti out of existence. He saw you leave at 11:30.

[Mickey Manning]

You'll testify, sir, He's a liar.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He's part of the frame. I want to see him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Go one shave.

[Sergeant]

You'll see Venuti in court.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Ah.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Shaving mug.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Soap brush.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

All right, all right, all right.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come on, come on.

[Sergeant]

How much lather do you need?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hey.

[Izzy]

My eyes.

[Mickey Manning]

My eyes. It worked. The shaving brush in Kogan's eyes and hitting him with all the strength I had left in me. It worked, and I got out of there. Out and into the streets. They didn't have to torture me. Lieutenant Driscoll and Sergeant Kogan didn't have to beat me with a rubber hose to make me confess to a crime I never committed.

[Daemon Van Weston]

All they had to do was keep

[Mickey Manning]

me without sleep for 72 hours. After that, a man will do anything just to be allowed to shut his eyes. So I signed a confession because I just wanted to sleep.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

But now.

[Mickey Manning]

Now I was awake and on the streets outside Lieutenant Driscoll's apartment. It was 8:15 in the morning. For the next four hours I walked, trying to recall everything I'd known about Venuti, trying to figure just one reason why he wanted to frame me. Why?

[Sergeant]

Why?

[Mickey Manning]

He said I left Garvins at 11:30. It was no use. I. I couldn't think of anything. And suddenly it occurred to me. They were looking at me. The people on the street were staring. Then I remembered it was October and

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I had no coat.

[Mickey Manning]

I was in shirt sleeves. I'd left my coat in Lt. Driscoll's AP.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Can I help you, mister?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yeah. You got a phone in here?

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Down that aisle to your left.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

32421.

[Anna Schmidt]

Hello?

[Mary Manning]

Hello? Who is this?

[Mickey Manning]

I'm all right, Mary. Don't worry.

[Mary Manning]

Where are you?

[Mickey Manning]

I don't know. A drugstore downtown. I escaped, Mary.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I got away from them.

[Mary Manning]

You're an idiot. You'll only make it worse for yourself.

[Mickey Manning]

Now, listen, Mary. I didn't kill Garvin. I need your help. I need a coat.

[Mary Manning]

I can't help you, Mickey.

[Mickey Manning]

What?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You're a murderer.

[Mary Manning]

Even if you are my husband, I'm not going to be involved.

[Mickey Manning]

I didn't kill him. It's. It's all a frame, Mary. All I've got to do is find a guy named Bernuti and beat it out of him. Mary. Mary. I couldn't blame her much. The shock of finding that her husband was wanted for murder. I had to get to Bernuda to prove it was a lie. But now was no time to think about it because it was a few minutes before 1:00'.

[Roma Wines Announcer]

Clock.

[Mickey Manning]

And that was good, because I was near Charlie Borden's office. They went out to lunch at one o'.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Clock.

[Mickey Manning]

Charlie was my lawyer, my wife's cousin. And now he was the man I had to see. There was an alley next to his office building. I waited there.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Charlie.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Charlie.

[Mickey Manning]

Over here. Come here. What happened to you? Where have you been these past three days? Listen, Charlie. Two cops had me in an apartment uptown.

[Charlie Borden]

Cops?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What for?

[Mickey Manning]

Trying to get a confession out of me. What kind of confession?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

They say I killed Leo Garvin.

[Mickey Manning]

They've got a witness named Venuti. He said I left Garvin's place at 11:30, but I left at 10. Then you got nothing to worry about, Mickey. Mary will testify you were home a little after 10. I didn't get home till after 12. After I left Garvin, I walked. We had an argument. I was upset. I spent a couple of hours walking. Well, then you didn't do it. No. No, of course I didn't. They got a confession out of me anyway. You mean to say you signed a confession when you didn't do it? Well, they kept me without sleep for 72 hours.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I can't do that.

[Mickey Manning]

That's illegal. Listen, Charlie, I need your help. Of course. Let's go back to my office. I'll arrange to surrender you directly to the da. And I'm gonna raise the roof about that confession. I'm not going to surrender. I've been framed, Charlie. I've got to find this for Newton. Listen, Mickey. You leave that to me. You can't wander around where any cop might take a shot at. You got to find me first. Listen, I need a jacket and a coat. Can you get them for me?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Sure.

[Mickey Manning]

I'll phone Mary right away. Where'll you be? Remember that movie we went to last week? The Rivoli?

[Charlie Borden]

Yeah.

[Mickey Manning]

I'll be there.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Back row.

[Mickey Manning]

Make sure they're not following you. Okay. Give me a half hour. What will you do meantime? I'll give you an hour because I'm going to Benuti's. I'm going to make him tell me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Who?

[Mickey Manning]

Who paid him for that lie? Mickey, don't do it. Better leave things to me. Just get me the coat and the jacket. The nudie is the one thing I can take care of better than you. I caught a streetcar and 20 minutes later I was walking toward the sway back two story building where Venutian had his insurance office. Just across the street from Garvin's house. I opened the door and walked in.

[Venuti]

You want something? Drank, maybe?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Vanuti. Where is he?

[Venuti]

Who shall I say is calling?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Where's Venuti?

[Venuti]

You look like you want him real bad.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Come on. Come on.

[Sergeant]

Where is he?

[Venuti]

Take it easy. Take it easy.

[Libby Collins]

Slow down.

[Venuti]

You want to see Venuti? I'll take you to the Nutti. Come on. There he is. There's Venuti. Sure you don't want that drink?

[Mickey Manning]

He was sitting at his desk, natty as ever, disinterested as ever. I walked over to him.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Stopped.

[Mickey Manning]

There was a bullet hole in his forehead.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

He was dead.

[Mickey Manning]

There was a gun lying on the floor. I picked it up, examined it. Two bullets had been fired and it was my gun.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Autolight is bringing you Mr. Joseph Cox in Fly By Night. Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense.

[Sergeant]

Hey, Hap, was there a barker at the carnival?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Sure was, Harlow.

[Sergeant]

I can hear him. Right this way to the ninth wonder of the world. Step right up, folks, and see the Autolite Stay full battery. This sensational specialist of sure starts needs water. Not 10, not 5, but only 3 times a year in normal car use.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yep, the barker is always a big attraction.

[Sergeant]

Well, not as big as the Autolite Stay full battery, Hap. It attracts hundreds of thousands of discriminating drivers every year.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Plays to a full house, huh, Harlow?

[Sergeant]

You said it, Hap. And no one night stands either. Auto Light stay full. Batteries are always good for a long run.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

How come, Harlow?

[Sergeant]

Well, Autolite stay full. Batteries have fiberglass retaining mats protecting each positive plate. These mats help reduce flaking and shedding.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

They get top billing with me, Harlow.

[Sergeant]

Attaboy. Half. So, friends, see your neighborhood Autolite battery dealer and when you pay your money and you take your choice, choose an Autolite Stay full battery. The battery that needs water only three times a year. Remember, you're always right with Auto Light.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And now Autolight brings back to our Hollywood soundstage. Mr. Joseph Cotton in Elliot Lewis's production of Fly by Night. A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

[Venuti]

I told you I'd take you to Venuti. What do you think of him?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What happened?

[Venuti]

I thought him dead when I came in a couple of minutes before you did. By the way, who are you?

[Mickey Manning]

Did you kill him?

[Venuti]

I know who you are. Your name's Manning.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

How do you know me?

[Venuti]

Fella in the picture.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What picture?

[Venuti]

Nevermind.

[Mickey Manning]

Well, you still haven't told me what you're doing here.

[Venuti]

My name's Irene Conway. We had a cocktail date. What kind of date did you keep with him?

[Mickey Manning]

Swore he saw me leave Garvin's apartment at 11:30 the night Garvin was killed. He lied.

[Venuti]

He lied about a lot of things.

[Mickey Manning]

I came here to get the truth out of him. But someone's been here first to shut him up.

[Venuti]

He'd never got anything out of him. I'll prove it to you. Garvin was shot on Monday night, wasn't he?

[Mickey Manning]

That's right.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why?

[Venuti]

Venuti couldn't have seen you leaving Garvin's place. We were together in my apartment on the other side of town to close to 2.

[Mickey Manning]

And what made him lie? Why did he do it? Why did he frame me?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What?

[Mickey Manning]

Tell me. Someone paid him to say he saw me leave Garvin's house that night.

[Venuti]

Maybe.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Who?

[Mickey Manning]

Who paid him?

[Venuti]

Maybe the man.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What man?

[Venuti]

On Monday, Venut had called me to meet him here at about 5 o'. Clock. There was a man with him. And when I came in, the man put him away in a hurry. Went right out without even saying goodbye. I know everybody. Venuti knows. This man was a stranger.

[Mickey Manning]

But his name. Didn't Venuti mention his name?

[Venuti]

No. He wouldn't talk about him. When I asked him what the pictures were, got mad. But I saw one of them.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Who was it?

[Venuti]

You. That's how I recognized you when you came in.

[Mickey Manning]

Can you describe this man?

[Venuti]

He was a blonde man. He wasn't pretty. You're pretty. Bernudi was pretty. Vanu was prettier than anybody.

[Mickey Manning]

Listen, Irene, you've got to talk to Charles Borden, my cousin.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

He's a lawyer.

[Mickey Manning]

You've got to tell him everything you told me. Will you do that for me?

[Venuti]

Fanuti isn't pretty.

[Mickey Manning]

Listen, Irene, Vernouti's dead.

[Venuti]

So he's knocking on the door. Mr. Manning. Must be the police. I call the police.

[Mickey Manning]

Look, my cousin's name is Charles Borden. He's in the Taft building. You go right down to his office and tell.

[Venuti]

I know that's the police. Don't you think you better run?

[Mickey Manning]

Don't you understand? You've got to do it now, right now.

[Jessica Wellington]

No.

[Venuti]

No, I couldn't right now. I've got to talk to the police. Just a minute.

[Mickey Manning]

Charles Borden in the Taft Billing. Will you do it?

[Venuti]

You better run, Mr. Manning. Run? F.

[Mickey Manning]

I ran out the back way and into the streets. Now it was time to meet Charlie in the movie theater. Get the jacket and coat from him. Tell him about Irene and the man with my picture. I got settled in one of the empty seats in the back row of the movie and waited. In a little while, Charlie came in and sat down next to me. He had the extra coat and jacket with him.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Did you find the nudie?

[Mickey Manning]

I found him. He was dead when I found him. Shot with my pistol. Here. Here, you take it. Someone's trying to get me, Charlie, and I think I have a lead on it. What kind of lead? Girl named Irene Conway. Friend of a nudie's. She saw the man who paid the nuda to put the finger on me. If she doesn't come to you, you've got to find her, Charlie.

[Major Calloway]

Okay.

[Mickey Manning]

Make her tell you what she knows, then follow it up. Hire detectives if you have to marry. Can sign checks for me. I've got about 1500. Don't worry about the money. I'll take care of. I need some cash now. I used what I had on phones and streetcars. I put $25 in the jacket. Thanks, Charlie. I hope it fits you. It's my jacket. Mary wouldn't give me one of yours. I'll keep in touch with you by phone.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Okay, I'm going.

[Mickey Manning]

You stay for another 10 minutes or so. Right? Right.

[Izzy]

Thanks again.

[Mickey Manning]

Good luck, Mickey. Charlie walked out, leaving the coat and jacket on the seat. I waited 10 minutes, then picked up the clothes and started to leave when a woman sitting three seats away carefully closed a bag of popcorn, leaned over and grabbed me by the arm.

[Mary Manning]

What do you think you're doing?

[Mickey Manning]

Pardon me.

[Izzy]

Please.

[Mary Manning]

Stop that man. He's stealing the gentleman's coat. He's a siege. Wait a minute, you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Where do you think you're going to?

[Mickey Manning]

Let go of me. Let go. I want.

[Mary Manning]

Let go.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Usher.

[Mary Manning]

That's him. That coat and jacket he's carrying don't belong to him. He's trying to sneak out.

[Mickey Manning]

Oh, what are you talking about? These are my things.

[Mary Manning]

Oh, no, they're not. I saw you come in. You didn't have them. Then that other man sat beside you, and when he went to the men's lounge, you grabbed his clothes.

[Mickey Manning]

Andrew, you're mistaken. These are my things.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Are you sure I don't belong to him?

[Mary Manning]

Madam, what have I got eyes in my head for? I was sitting only three seats away. Of course I'm sure. Go to the men's lounge and find that other gentleman and you'll see whether I'm mistaken. I tell you. Call the police.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Let's Go to the office and get this straightened up.

[Mickey Manning]

I don't have time. These are my clothes and I'm.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I remember. You came in your shirt sleeves.

[Mickey Manning]

Come on. All right, all right. Take me to the manager right now.

[Mary Manning]

You want me to come too? I saw him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, madam. And please don't talk too loud. You're just stiping the patrons. Yes, what is it, Mr. Schreier? This woman claims that this man is trying to walk out with a coat and jacket belonging to another patron. She says he's in the lounge. Is that so? Go get the gentleman in the lounge. Yes, sir. This is all a mistake.

[Mickey Manning]

Coat's mine. So's the jacket.

[Mary Manning]

It is not. You came in without a coat or a jacket.

[Mickey Manning]

I don't deny that the man who brought them was my cousin. I left them in his office. And you won't find him in the lounge. He's gone back to his office.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You say this coat and jacket are yours?

[Mickey Manning]

Yes.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Can you identify them by the contents of the pocket?

[Mickey Manning]

There should be $25 in the jacket.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

In which pocket? I don't remember one of them. Well, we'll soon see. Nothing in this pocket. Ah, here. Here's something. Bill.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah?

[Mickey Manning]

I told you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

5, 10, 15, 25.

[Mary Manning]

He could have put the money there. That's no proof. The coast.

[Mickey Manning]

I told you it was my jacket. Now, may I have it, please?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Just a moment. There's a letter here in the inside pocket. I presume it's yours. Sure, it's fine. And the name on it? If it's your letter, it should have your name on it.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Oh, of course.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

The name is Charles Borden. Yes, it's addressed in care of Charles Borden, but not to Charles Borden.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

It's addressed to Manning. Mrs. Michael Manning?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Yes.

[Mickey Manning]

Mrs. Manning is my cousin.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And what is your address?

[Mickey Manning]

5437 Booth Street, Forest Hills.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That's the address, all right. Madam, I'm afraid you've made a mistake. This man can identify the clothing.

[Mary Manning]

This man's a thief.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I don't think he is, madam. My apologies, sir. It's quite all right.

[Mickey Manning]

I walked out of the theater, lost myself in the crowd and didn't stop until I was 10 blocks away. Then I slipped into a lunchroom and had my first meal of the day.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

While I was eating, I took the

[Mickey Manning]

letter out of the pocket of Charles jacket. Why hadn't he turned this letter over to my wife? What was in it? He didn't want Mary to see. I opened and read it.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Leeds Fulbright and Benning, attorneys at Law, 1312 Q Street, Sacramento, California. 12 August, 1950. Dear Mrs. Manning, this is to inform you that you have been named sole beneficiary under the last will and testament of your late uncle, Benjamin Williams. We request that you or your attorney appear in the probate proceedings by means of the enclosed waiver of citation, so that we may make distribution. In our opinion, after taxes, your inheritance will be upwards of $200,000. Silly. Yours, Julius Benning.

[Mickey Manning]

$200,000. I was stunned at first. Then it suddenly occurred to me. Charlie hadn't said a word about it. Charlie hadn't even shown the letter to Mary. Then I took another look at the date. August 12, over a month ago. Then it came into focus. Cousin Charlie was playing the hand alone. He didn't want Mary to have any of that money. Charlie was the one who had framed me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Get me out of the way.

[Mickey Manning]

Then Mary, then Charlie would be the sole survivor of our late uncle. Charlie had stolen my gun.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Then.

[Mickey Manning]

I'd helped him. I'd put my fingerprints on the gun at Vernutti's and then given it to Charlie. Charlie was the man with the pictures who paid Bernuti to put me on the spot, huh? I paid my check and grabbed the

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

cab outside at 8:30.

[Mickey Manning]

I was running up the steps of Charlie's house. Mickey. I want to talk to you, Charlie. Anyone see you come here?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I didn't bother to look.

[Mickey Manning]

I want to talk to you. All right, Mickey. You had me fooled, Charlie.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Frame me and fool me.

[Mickey Manning]

What are you talking about? You knew mary had inherited $200,000. 200.

[Sergeant]

You knew it.

[Mickey Manning]

Never told Mary about it. Killed Garvin to get rid of me. Kill for nudity because you were afraid I'd beat the truth out of him. When were you planning to kill Mary? Oh, you're going crazy, Mickey.

[Sergeant]

Now, look, listen to me.

[Mickey Manning]

Oh, I'm going to beat a confession out of you. I swear to you. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Izzy]

Confess, Charlie.

[Mickey Manning]

I confessed once.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Confess. Confess.

[Mickey Manning]

You didn't confess, Charlie. Well, I'll get someone who'll make you do it. Someone who's an expert at it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Driscoll. Driscoll.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Driscoll.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

West 80th here. Oh, Driscoll.

[Mickey Manning]

Mickey Manning.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Where are you, killer? Charlie Borden's apartment. I've got your murderer for you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Come in, Lieutenant. Come in.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Thanks, Manning. I brought somebody. Your wife.

[Mary Manning]

Hello, Mickey. Mr. Driscoll called me and said you found Garvin's killer. Have you really Mickey.

[Mickey Manning]

Yes, the nudis, too. I told you it was a frame, Mary.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Who's a killer, Manning?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Cousin Charlie.

[Mary Manning]

Now, why should Charlie kill them, Nicky?

[Mickey Manning]

Because he wanted all that money for himself.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Don't you see?

[Mickey Manning]

Because.

[Mary Manning]

Because he wanted that $200,000 for himself. Is that right?

[Sergeant]

Yes, that.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Wait a minute. How did you know about that 200,000, Mary?

[Mary Manning]

I knew it from the day I got the letter from the lawyers. And I said to myself, now, there's no sense in sharing all that money when there's a way to get it all to myself.

[Sergeant Kogan]

So.

[Mickey Manning]

So you frame me, Mary.

[Mary Manning]

So I framed you, Driscoll. And I framed you. Driscoll killed Garvin, killed Minutti, now Driscoll.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What's your salary for killing off duty?

[Sergeant Kogan]

Always off duty. Killing Hogan. And I don't have badges. People like Mary here pay us the play act at being.

[Mickey Manning]

That confession I made to you is worthless.

[Mary Manning]

Not at all, Mickey. I have it in my purse. It's a confession a husband made to his wife.

[Mickey Manning]

Well, tell me something, wife. How did you plant that letter from the lawyers so I'd find it in Charlie's jacket?

[Mary Manning]

Well, Charlie called me and told me you needed a jacket. I came to Charlie and persuaded him to take one of his own. Then I slipped the letter in the pocket so you'd find it.

[Mickey Manning]

Had two people killed for that money just to get rid of me. Why didn't you just kill me and

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

leave the others alone?

[Mary Manning]

I like it this way, Mickey. I like testifying at your trial. I like being all broken up. Because they'll hang you for murder. Driscoll.

[Mr. Popesco]

Yeah.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Let's go say hello to Cousin Shirley. Hello, Cousin Shirley.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Huh?

[Sergeant Kogan]

Cousin Charlie doesn't answer. My, my. You really beat him up, Manning.

[Mary Manning]

Charlie did.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Cousin Charlie is still alive. He'll be able to talk soon. And if he talks, Mary will be in trouble. Hold this gun on your husband, Mary. All right, close your eyes if you can't stand this, Manning. I'm going to start on cousin Charlie where you left off.

[Mickey Manning]

Leave Charlie alone. Leave him alone.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I'll kill you, Driscoll. Kill you, Mary. Get him off me.

[Mary Manning]

J.

[Izzy]

Drop it.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Drop it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I'll still help me. I'll break every bone. Drop it, Mary.

[Mary Manning]

Mickey. Oh, Mickey. Now, Mickey.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Mary, go over to that phone.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Go over to the phone.

[Mary Manning]

All right, Mickey, I.

[Mickey Manning]

Call the police.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Tell them you're calling for me.

[Mickey Manning]

Then tell them I know who killed my partner, Garvin.

[Mary Manning]

All right, Mickey.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Police Department, Lt. Randall speaking.

[Mary Manning]

This isn't Mary Manning. I'm Calling for my husband, Mickey Manning.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Tell them how you frame me, Manning.

[Mary Manning]

My husband wants me to tell you how Leo Garvin and a man named Venuti were murdered. It started with a letter I got in which I inherited $200,000.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Suspense presented by Autolight. Tonight's star, Joseph Cotton.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

We all enjoyed your performance very much, Mr. Cotton. Thanks, Hap.

[Sergeant]

Thank you, Joe. We hope you'll return to suspense again soon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I hope so too, Harlow. It's always a pleasure to be associated with Auto Light. He sounds like you, Wilcox.

[Sergeant]

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[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Next week on suspense, Ms. Miriam Hopkins as star of Ms.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Bone.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

The story of three women living in a small town boarding house. And the unusual murder that took place there. And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Milton Berle and Howard Duff. Appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in suspense.

[Sergeant]

Tonight's suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. With music composed by Lucian Morowek and conducted by Lud Gluskin. Parts of this program were transcribed. Fly by Night by George and Gertrude Fass. Was adapted for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Joseph Cotton may soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox production Two Flags West.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And remember, next week on suspense, Miss Miriam Hopkins in Miss Bone.

[Mary Manning]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

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[Mary Manning]

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[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Good night.

[Sergeant]

This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Lux presents Hollywood. Lelever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Joseph Cotton and Evelyn Keys in the Third Man. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keel.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's play, the Third man, we have a perfect setting for a murder mystery. Post war Europe filled with spies, intrigue and black markets. Into this atmosphere of cunning and subterfuge comes an American. Only to take up the trail of the unknown murderer of his friends. A trail that leads him into hazardous and chilling adventure. As the stars of this suspenseful David O. Selznick production, we have in his original role one of the finest actors of screen and radio, Joseph Cotton. And as his co star, charming Evelyn Keyes. The Third man not only has a plot to hold everyone's interest. But one of the most haunting of musical themes. Played on a most unusual instrument. The zither. Now that spring is here, it won't be long before we hear another unforgettable theme. As luxe lovely girls everywhere begin the wedding march. And women who give their complexions daily luxe Toilet Soap care. Will, of course be among the loveliest of brides. Now the curtain rises on the third Man. Starring Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins and Evelyn Keys as Anna Schmidt.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

When the funeral was over, I left the cemetery with a British officer, Major Callaway. He offered to drive me back into town. Then he said he thought I needed a drink. The major was right.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Yes.

[Major Calloway]

You've had a bit of a shock, Mr. Martins. You say you arrived in Vienna only this morning.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Just in time to go to the funeral.

[Major Calloway]

You came to Vienna to attend the funeral?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Came here to go to work. A friend of mine offered me a job. Publicity work for some kind of charity he was running. Well, my friend's dead.

[Major Calloway]

Harry Lime offered you a job?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Best friend I ever had.

[Major Calloway]

You're a writer, you say?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Ever hear of the Lone Rider of Santa Fe? Death at Double X Ranch?

[Major Calloway]

I can't say that I have.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, don't get any ideas about money.

[Mickey Manning]

I'm broke.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Harry even sent me the plane ticket.

[Major Calloway]

No money at all?

[Mickey Manning]

Little.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Not very much.

[Major Calloway]

Where are you staying?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Was going to stay with him. It was the porter at his apartment house who told me.

[Major Calloway]

Tolded you what, Mr. Martins?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

About the accident. Harry had been killed.

[Major Calloway]

He didn't have many friends, did he? I mean, well, at the cemetery, for instance, a handful of people.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Who are they?

[Mickey Manning]

Do you know them?

[Major Calloway]

I know who they are.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes.

[Major Calloway]

A Dr. Winkle. Baron Kurtz. A girl named Anna Schmidt.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, what a waste. A shame what his dying like that.

[Major Calloway]

The best thing that ever happened to him. Martins, your friend Harry Lime was about the worst racketeer that ever made a dirty living in this city.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

So that's what you are, policeman.

[Major Calloway]

This is the international zone. Your country, too, has military police here. So do the French and the Russians. We try to work together.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Some petty racket would be. Gasoline or something. You pin it on A dead man, just like a cop.

[Major Calloway]

It wasn't gasoline, Mr. Limes.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

It was tires or saccharine. Why don't you catch a few murderers for a change?

[Major Calloway]

Murder was part of Harry Limes racket. Sergeant Penn.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, sir.

[Major Calloway]

Drive Mr. Martin to Sacha's hotel.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Very good, sir.

[Major Calloway]

Nothing elegant, Mr. Martins. Military personnel mostly, but you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Now, just a minute. Callahan, Calloway.

[Major Calloway]

I'm English.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You're not going to close your files at a dead man's expense.

[Major Calloway]

Oh, so you're going to find me the real criminal. Sounds like one of your stories.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

When I'm finished with you, you'll leave Vienna. You look so silly.

[Major Calloway]

You said you had very little cash. Here, take this army money. It'll see you through until tomorrow. And we'll hold a seat for you on the plane. All right, Sergeant, take him to Sarka's.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

They gave me a room on the second floor and I'd hardly close the door when the telephone rang.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Hello?

[Baron Kurtz]

Mr. Martin?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Who's this?

[Major Calloway]

Who?

[Baron Kurtz]

Baron Kurtz. I was a friend of Harry Leif.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, yes. I'd like very much to meet you, Baron. Can you come over here?

[Baron Kurtz]

Austrians are not allowed in your hotel, Mr. Martin. Could we not meet at the Mozart Cafe? It is just around the corner.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

How'll I know you?

[Baron Kurtz]

I will carry one of your books. Harry gave it to me.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

The.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

The Oklahoma Kid.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'll be right over.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Thank you, Mr. Martin.

[Baron Kurtz]

I am delighted to meet you, sir.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What would you like?

[Mr. Popesco]

Tea?

[Stanley Vance]

Coffee?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Coffee?

[Baron Kurtz]

Schwarzer Bitter. It is wonderful how you keep the tension.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Tension?

[Baron Kurtz]

The suspense in this book, I mean.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, so. So you were a friend of Harry's. Baron Kurt.

[Baron Kurtz]

I think he's best. Except you, of course.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The police have a crazy notion he was mixed up in some sort of racket.

[Baron Kurtz]

Mr. Martins. Who in Vienna is not? We all sell cigarettes and that kind of thing. I have done things that would have seemed unthinkable before the war.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm afraid the police meant more than that.

[Baron Kurtz]

They get some rather absurd ideas sometimes. Poor Harry. Where he is now, he will not mind.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Even so, I'm not going to leave it at this. Will you help me?

[Baron Kurtz]

I wish I could, but I am an Austrian. I have to be very careful. I'm afraid I cannot help you. Except with advice, of course. Advice?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I want to know how he was killed.

[Baron Kurtz]

But the truck. He was struck by the truck.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I mean, how.

[Mickey Manning]

How.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

How did it happen?

[Baron Kurtz]

We will drink our coffee, Mr. Martins. It is not far from here where it happened. We will walk there and I will show you. We walked out of the apartment. Mr. Martins. There, where the porter is sweeping. We started toward the corner when a friend of Harry's called to him from over there.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That square across the street?

[Baron Kurtz]

Exactly. Harry stepped off the curb and started over. The truck came from that direction.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That quickly? That quickly.

[Baron Kurtz]

His friend and I picked him up. We carried him to this very spot. Even at the end, his thoughts were of you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What did he say?

[Baron Kurtz]

I cannot remember the exact words. He was anxious I should look after

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

you when you arrived.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The porter told me he died instantaneously

[Baron Kurtz]

Mirand before the ambulance could reach us.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

No, there were only you and this friend of his. Who was he?

[Baron Kurtz]

A Romanian. Mr. Popesco.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'd like to talk to him.

[Baron Kurtz]

He has left Vienna.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, excuse me. I want to ask the port or something. You. Did you know Mr. Lime well?

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Mr. Lime?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes. You remember me this morning I was here. Yes, I remember you well. Who used to visit Mr. Lime?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Visit? Yeah. Mitzi can still hear Common.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I'm omen.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Telephone, please.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You will excuse me.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Baron Kurtz, who was at the funeral beside you.

[Baron Kurtz]

You saw them? Only his doctor, Dr. Winkle and the British officer.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Wasn't a girl there?

[Baron Kurtz]

Oh, yes. Some girl of the Josephstadt Theater. You know how Harry was.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You don't know her name?

[Baron Kurtz]

I do not think I ever heard it. Mr. Martin's. You do better to think of yourself now.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I'll be all right, of course.

[Baron Kurtz]

And you will forgive me if I run along now.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

If I should want to talk with you again, Baron, you will find me

[Baron Kurtz]

at the Casanova Club every night. One has to work, you know. And I'm so glad to have met you, Mr. Martins. And your book. A masterpiece of suspense. Such a good cover, too, I think.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, yes, Mr. Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Sister, this is my key, please. 226.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Yes, sir.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, how can I get a ticket

[Mickey Manning]

for the Jose Theater for tonight?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, I think we can arrange that. Speaking of tickets, sir. Major Calloway's compliment, sir. And a ticket for tomorrow's plane.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, you can tell Major Calloway that I won't need it. I've decided to stay for a while.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, yeah? Yes, Mr. Martins. I will tell him.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That night I went to the Josephstadt Theater after the performance. A pack of cigarettes got me past the dorm into Anna Schmidt's dressing room.

[Anna Schmidt]

Holly Martins. That name is supposed to mean something to me.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I thought perhaps Harry told you about me.

[Anna Schmidt]

No, he never told me about his friends.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I enjoy the play very much.

[Mickey Manning]

You were awfully good.

[Anna Schmidt]

You are not here to talk about My performance?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

No, about Harry. Had you known him long?

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes. But there is nothing really to say, is there? Nothing.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I saw you at the cemetery this morning.

[Anna Schmidt]

I'm sorry. I did not notice much.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You were in love with him, weren't you?

[Anna Schmidt]

I do not know. How can you know a thing like that afterwards? I do not know anything anymore, except I want to be dead, too.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I was talking to another friend of Harry's. Baron Kurtz. Do you know him?

[Anna Schmidt]

I have met him. He brought me some money when Harry died. He said Harry had been anxious. At the last moment, he said Harry

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

spoke of me too. Seems to show he wasn't in much pain.

[Anna Schmidt]

Dr. Winkle told me that the doctor Harry used to go to, he was passing just after it happened.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

His own doctor just passing?

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes. They said it was not the driver's fault. Harry had often said what a careful driver he was.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The man in the truck was Harry's driver. Well, I just don't understand all this. His own driver knocking him down. His own doctor just passing.

[Anna Schmidt]

I have wondered about it a hundred times, but what difference does it make? He's dead.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

But if it wasn't an accident.

[Anna Schmidt]

I'm sorry, I cannot stay here. The manager does not like us to use the electricity.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Would you come with me?

[Libby Collins]

Where?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

To Harry's apartment.

[Anna Schmidt]

At this hour?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, the porter there saw it happen.

[Anna Schmidt]

Then why worry?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You know that porter?

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes. All right, Mr. Martins. We will speak to the porter.

[Mickey Manning]

It is better we talk inside. In her Lime's apartment.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What's he saying?

[Anna Schmidt]

Come over to the window. He says it happened right down there.

[Baron Kurtz]

Down there?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes. You saw it happen?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Not so heard.

[Mickey Manning]

I heard the brakes.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Then I saw them carry the body

[Mickey Manning]

to the other side of the Emperor Joseph's statue.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why didn't they bring him in the house? Could he have been conscious?

[Mickey Manning]

Conscious?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The Soli conscious? Well, was he still alive?

[Izzy]

Alive?

[Mickey Manning]

He could not have been alive. Not with his head in the way it was.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, then how could he have talked about me? About this lady here? Why didn't you say all this at the inquest?

[Mickey Manning]

It is better to say nothing.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I was not the only one.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

No? Who else?

[Mickey Manning]

Three men carry your friend to that statue down there.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Kurtz?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes. This Romanian? Yes. Who else? You mean the doctor?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No, no, no, no.

[Mickey Manning]

There was a third man. He come later, after they carried him to the statue.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Who? Well, I did not see his face.

[Mickey Manning]

He might have been just anybody.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Just anybody? I. I was told there were only two men there. You've got to tell this story to the police.

[Mr. Popesco]

Police?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, why?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Police.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

This is Alice Blitzen. Was he does.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Arg.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

This is. This is all crazy. It was an accident.

[Izzy]

Was it?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You don't know it was an accident. You only saw a dead man and three men carrying.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I should listen to my wife, keep my mouth shut, say nothing.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Suppose I take your evidence to the police.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I have no evidence. It is not my business.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Make it your business, Fraulein.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Fraulein Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

We had better leave, Mr. Mysterious Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, can I take you home?

[Anna Schmidt]

It does not matter if you want to.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Outside in the corridor was a little boy who was bouncing a rubber ball. Looked up and stared at me.

[Anna Schmidt]

She said

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

in his skin, hansel, come to park here.

[Daemon Van Weston]

What was that all about?

[Anna Schmidt]

He says you do not like the porter.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, he says you do not like me. Maybe he is right. Good night, Mr. Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I took on a home, a small apartment building. We paused a moment in the entrance.

[Anna Schmidt]

I have been thinking. Leave Vienna, Mr. Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You're not the first. First person who's told me that there

[Anna Schmidt]

is nothing you can do here.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

But if I do find something, may I look you up again?

[Anna Schmidt]

You know where I work. You know where I live. But I.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Suddenly the door in front of us flung open. A woman. She pushed me aside, talking to honor excitedly. What are you talking about?

[Anna Schmidt]

They're upstairs searching my room.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I followed Anna to a room. It were Sergeant Payne and Major Carriage Calloway.

[Major Calloway]

Well, you're getting around, aren't you, Mr. Martin?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What the devil is this, Calloway, pinning things on girls now?

[Major Calloway]

Miss Schmidt, I should like to see your papers, please.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Don't you give him anything.

[Anna Schmidt]

Here. My passport.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Thank you.

[Major Calloway]

You were born in Salzburg of Austrian parents?

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes.

[Major Calloway]

How much did you pay for this passport, Miss Schmidt? Well, it doesn't matter. I'm afraid I'll have to keep it for a while. Give Miss Schmidt a receipt, Sergeant. Oh, and for these letters too.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, chef.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I suppose it wouldn't interest you to know that Harry Lyme was murdered. No, you're too busy. You haven't even bothered to get the complete evidence.

[Anna Schmidt]

My letters. Must you take them?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

They'll be returned, miss.

[Anna Schmidt]

But they're private papers.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That's all right, miss. We're used to it, like doctors.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

There was a third man there. I suppose that doesn't sound peculiar to you, Calloway.

[Major Calloway]

I'm not interested in how a racketeer like Lime was killed. The only important thing is that he's dead. I'm sorry, Miss Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

Must you take those letters? They're Harry's. They're Only love letters.

[Major Calloway]

They'll be returned as soon as we've examined them.

[Anna Schmidt]

Harry never did anything. Only a small thing once, out of kindness.

[Major Calloway]

And what was that?

[Anna Schmidt]

My passport. You have it in your hand.

[Major Calloway]

You'll have to come along with us, Ms. Schmidt.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You're not locking her up.

[Major Calloway]

Oh, Martins, be sensible. You don't know what you're mixing in. Get the next plane.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

As soon as I get to the bottom of this, I'll get the next plane.

[Major Calloway]

Death is at the bottom of everything, Martins.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Leave death to the profession.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You mind if I use that line in my next Western? You can't chuck me out, Major. My papers are in order. Look, is anything really wrong with your passport?

[Anna Schmidt]

It was forged. The Russians would claim me. I come from Czechoslovakia.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And if I Reminders Schmidt.

[Major Calloway]

Good night, Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I stood on the sidewalk as they drove off. Then I remember the doctor, Dr. Vinco. I got his address from a telephone book and hailed a taxi cab.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What can I do for you, Mr. Martins?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I realize this is no time to be calling, Doctor, but. Well, we were both friends of Harry Lyman.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I was his medical advisor.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes, and I want to find out all I can.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I can tell you very little. He was dead when I arrived.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Who was with him?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Two friends of his.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Two. Two? Are you sure?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Quite sure, Mr. Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Could he have been at all conscious?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I understand he was for a short time, but I was not there when it happened. My opinion is limited to the causes of death. Have you any reason to be dissatisfied?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Is it possible that his death might have been. Not accidental? Could he. Could he have been pushed, Doctor?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I cannot give an opinion. The injuries to the head and skull would have been the same. And now I'm afraid I.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes, of course.

[Mickey Manning]

Thank you.

[Major Calloway]

Well, Sergeant, come in. Come in.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I followed Martin, sir. He went to Dr. Winkle's home.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Then he came back here.

[Major Calloway]

Here?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

He's down on the street, Sir. Waiting for Ms. Schmidt, I would imagine.

[Major Calloway]

She's in the other office. Bring her in. Oh, I. I showed her forged passport to the French, the Americans and the Russians.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, sir.

[Major Calloway]

Our Russian friend, Captain Brodsky, is very interested. He wants us to hold it until he can talk to Colonel Polikov. Well, bring her inside.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

My papers.

[Anna Schmidt]

You have not returned everything, have you?

[Major Calloway]

I'm sorry. We'll need your passport for a while longer, Ms. Schmidt. You knew Harry Lyon very well, didn't you?

[Anna Schmidt]

We loved each other. Is that what you mean?

[Major Calloway]

Would you look at this photograph, please? Do you know this man also?

[Anna Schmidt]

I have never seen him.

[Major Calloway]

Perhaps you've heard of him. Joseph Harbin. He works in a military hospital. No, Ms. Schmidt, it's stupid to lie to me. I'm in a position to help you considerably.

[Anna Schmidt]

I am not lying. You are wrong about Harry. You are wrong about everything.

[Major Calloway]

In one of his letters, Harry Lyme asked you to telephone Joseph at the Casanova Club. What was the message?

[Anna Schmidt]

It was not important. Something about meeting Harry at his home.

[Major Calloway]

Joseph Harbin disappeared the day you telephoned. Now we've got to find him and you can help us.

[Anna Schmidt]

What can I tell you, but that you have got everything upside down? Am I under arrest?

[Major Calloway]

No, no. We'll send for you when we want to.

[Anna Schmidt]

Thank you.

[Major Calloway]

Oh, that American is still waiting for you out there. He won't do you much good, Ms. Schmidt.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No, no.

[Major Calloway]

Good night, Ms. Schmidt.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

In just a few moments, we'll continue with Act 2 of the Third Man. Now here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood Reporter, with the Lux Movie news of the week.

[Libby Collins]

Our picture tonight deals with a problem of intense human interest. A famous sportsman stages a comeback after a disabling accident. In follow the sun, 20th Century Fox tells us how the great golfer Ben Hogan did just that. In the picture, Glenn Ford is Ben. It's wonderful how he makes golf a thrilling game, even to a novice like me. I never expected so much suspense and action.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Isn't it true, Libby, that Ben Hogan himself worked with Glenn throughout the filming?

[Libby Collins]

Yes, that's true. And Ann Baxter as Ben's wife got her interpretation firsthand from Mrs. Hogan.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

I got a kick out of Dennis O' Keeffe's performance as the golfing pro who loves to play to the galleries.

[Libby Collins]

Oh, yes, indeed. Follow the sun has its share of laughs. But above all, it's a tender love story. Anne Baxter makes the part of the devoted wife just about perfect. One of Hollywood's finest young actresses and one of the loveliest.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

I quite agree, Libby. She's a glamour girl, all right. Always has that fresh, radiant look about her.

[Libby Collins]

Well, John, she's a luxe girl and depends on luxe soap for her complexion care. And uses the new bath size too. Says it makes her luxe beauty bath more luxurious than ever.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

So many stars tell us that, Libby. And no wonder. Lux is a soap you don't have to coax to lather. Even in hardest water, you get plenty of rich, creamy lather.

[Libby Collins]

And I love the way it leaves skin so fresh. Luxe, lovely all over.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Luxe soap in the generous bath size is made to please lovely women everywhere. Its active lather makes you sure of Daintiness, sure of charm. Screen stars say they enjoy the delicate fragrance a luxe soap bath leaves on the skin. Put this generous new bath size on your shopping list now. You'll be delighted with its creamy lather and flower like fragrance. It's easy to be luxe. Lovely all over. Find out for yourself why nine out of ten screen stars use luxe toilet soap. Now, our producer, Mr. William Keeley.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Act two of the third Man. Starring Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins and Evelyn Keyes as Anna Schmidt.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

She saw me waiting under the street lap in front of the government building. She would have gone on her way if I hadn't stopped her. I suggested a drink at the Casanova Club.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Good evening.

[Baron Kurtz]

Well, you have found out my little secret, Mr. Martins. The Baron Court. A violin player in a cheap cafe. Good evening, Ms. Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

Good evening.

[Baron Kurtz]

You have proved the police to be wrong, Mr. Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

No, no, not yet.

[Baron Kurtz]

Mr. Popesco is here tonight.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I thought you said he'd left Vienna.

[Baron Kurtz]

He is back now. I will bring him here to your table.

[Anna Schmidt]

You have not done enough for tonight.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The reporter said three men carried the body and two of them are here.

[Baron Kurtz]

You of course know Ms. Schmidt, Mr. Popesco, Mr. Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

How do you do?

[Mr. Popesco]

How do you do? Any friend of Harry's is a friend of mine.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

There now I leave you together, Mr. Papesco.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I understand you were with Harry when the trial.

[Mr. Popesco]

Oh, it was a terrible thing. I was just crossing the road. He and the Baron were on the sidewalk. Maybe if I had not called to him, he. Anyway, he stepped off to meet me and. I have never seen a man killed before.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I think there's something funny about the whole thing. Funny? Something wrong.

[Mr. Popesco]

Of course there was. It was so insane for a man like Harry Lyon to be killed in a street accident.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That's all you meant.

[Mr. Popesco]

But what else, Mr. Martin?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Who was the third man?

[Mr. Popesco]

Now, what man would you be referring to, please?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I was told that a third man helped you in Kurt's carrying.

[Mr. Popesco]

A third man? Who could have told you a story like that?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The porter.

[Mr. Popesco]

He saw the accident. The porter?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He saw three men carrying the body.

[Mr. Popesco]

I do not seem to recall. The porter at the police inquiry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He doesn't want to get involved.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Involved?

[Mr. Popesco]

It is his duty to give evidence. Even though he remembered Rome. He told you more, Mr. Martin?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That Harry was dead before you got him to the statue. Somebody's lying, Mr. Pepesko.

[Mr. Popesco]

No, no, no, not necessarily.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

British police say Harry was mixed up in some racket.

[Mr. Popesco]

Impossible. Harry had a great sense of duty. Yes, Ms. Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

I am afraid I have not been listening.

[Mr. Popesco]

If there's anything else, Mr. Martin?

[Daemon Van Weston]

No, no.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Thanks for stopping by.

[Mr. Popesco]

It was my pleasure. Good night, Ms. Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

Good night.

[Mr. Popesco]

This is a nice girl, Mr. Martins, but she ought to go careful in Vienna. A city like this, everybody ought to be careful.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The next morning I went to Harry's apartment house. That little boy with the rubber ball was playing on the sidewalk.

[Izzy]

Yeah.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

There's no doubt about it, Sonny. You're 100% right.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You want of me now?

[Mickey Manning]

Is it so important always to ask me questions?

[Sergeant]

Yes, it is.

[Mickey Manning]

I am not a bad man. I. I would like to tell you something.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Then how did a car, a truck.

[Mickey Manning]

Not now. Not here. My wife, if she thinks I tell you anything.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

But when?

[Mickey Manning]

Come tonight. Early tonight my wife goes out.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

But why does it have to be Shh.

[Mickey Manning]

Tonight?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You come here tonight? Barista.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Does that mean come in?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, yes.

[Mary Manning]

Come in.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Hope you don't mind. I have something to tell you. The porter's going to talk to us again tonight.

[Sergeant Kogan]

Oh.

[Anna Schmidt]

Need we go through it all again?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, I'd manage by myself. Then you'll be at the theater, I suppose?

[Jessica Wellington]

No.

[Anna Schmidt]

We do three plays a week. I do not appear again until Thursday.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Then why don't you want to? Bad day.

[Anna Schmidt]

It is always bad about this time. Harry used to stop by around 6. I have been frightened before of being alone without friends, without money. But I have never known anything like this. Please tell me about him.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Tell him what?

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, anything. When did you see him last? What did you do?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

We didn't make much sense. We drank too much. Once he tried to steal my girl.

[Anna Schmidt]

Where is she?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, that was many years ago.

[Anna Schmidt]

Tell me more.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, it's very difficult.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You knew Harry. We didn't do anything very amusing. He just made everything seem like. I don't know, like a lot of fun.

[Anna Schmidt]

Was he clever when he was a boy?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I suppose so. He could fix anything.

[Anna Schmidt]

Harry fixed my papers for me. He heard the Russians were repatriating people like me who come from Czechoslovakia. He knew the right person right away for forging the stamps.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

When he was 14, he taught me three COD tricks. That's growing up fast.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

No, Anna, no. Don't you fall in love again.

[Anna Schmidt]

I do not want to. Never. I do not want to. If we have to see the porter,

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

we had better go.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, a moment ago you didn't want to see the porter.

[Anna Schmidt]

We are both in it, Harry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Holly. Holly Martin.

[Stanley Vance]

Remember?

[Anna Schmidt]

I am sorry.

[Mickey Manning]

Sorry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You might at least get my name right.

[Anna Schmidt]

You know, you ought to find yourself a girl.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah, that's just what I keep telling myself. It was dark when we turned the corner of Harry Street. We were still half a block away when Anna noticed the crowd milling around the entrance. There was an ambulance at the curb.

[Anna Schmidt]

An accident. Another accident.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Wait here. Let me see what it's all about. What's the matter? But is lost. I don't understand.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Somebody kills the porter.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Suddenly everyone was silent. They were staring at me and drawing back. And that boy pointing his finger at me and shouting.

[Mary Manning]

Haberstok is saying there is the murder. Murder. Murder.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I didn't have to understand German to know what he meant. Porter had been murdered. And the boy was saying, I killed him. Suddenly the crowd became alive again.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I grabbed Anna and we raced it one time.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Was Anna who said we didn't have to run anymore. The alley behind us was empty.

[Anna Schmidt]

No one was hug everyone in Vienna free. Even of you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He was afraid too. The porter. Now he's dead.

[Anna Schmidt]

Why did the boy say that?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I don't. I don't know why.

[Anna Schmidt]

What are you going to do? But now they have told the police. They will be looking for you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm not quite sure what I should do.

[Anna Schmidt]

Well, then be sensible. Tell Major Calloway.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Calloway. Maybe you're right. You.

[Anna Schmidt]

I will go with you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Who's being sensible now? You shouldn't even be seen with me here. Take a taxi and go home. I'd better not see you again.

[Anna Schmidt]

I agree with you, Mr. Martins. Good night.

[Major Calloway]

I told you to leave, Martins. You're lucky we even got here alive. You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna. You're Precious Harry's friends. And now you're wanted for murder.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Put down drunk and disorderly too. Major Calloway.

[Major Calloway]

Oh, stop behaving like a fool.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm only an amateur fool. You're the professional. You've been shaking your cap and bells all over Vienna.

[Major Calloway]

I think it's time you heard the facts, Mr. Martins. I don't want another murder in this case. And you were born to be murdered. Have you ever heard of penicillin in Vienna? There hasn't been enough penicillin to go round. There are nice little trades started up. Stealing penicillin from the hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to the patients. You know what that means?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Means you were too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a homicide.

[Major Calloway]

These were homicides. Men with gangrenous legs, women in childbirth, and there were children too. They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis. This is the racket Harry Lime organized.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Calloway, you haven't shown me one shred of evidence.

[Major Calloway]

No, we're just coming to. Here. This is a photograph of a man called Hardin, a medical orderly at the general hospital. He worked for Lyme. He helped steal the penicillin from the laboratories. We forced him to give information to us which led us as far as Kurtz and Lyme.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

But you didn't arrest them.

[Major Calloway]

Our evidence wasn't complete. It might have spoiled our chances of getting the others.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'd like a word with this Harbin fellow.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Would you, Mr. Martins?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah.

[Major Calloway]

Yeah, so would I. He disappeared four days ago. Now we'll have a look at Baron Kurtz. We know for a fact that Lyme met Kurtz a little over a year ago.

[Mary Manning]

At the time.

[Major Calloway]

Well, now you know the facts, Mr. Martins. They turn my skin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

How could he have done it? How could. How could Harry. Harry have done it? How?

[Major Calloway]

£70 for a tube of penicillin. Oh. You go back to the hotel, Mr. Martin. Stay in your room. About the porter. I'll fix that with the Austrian police. But I can't be responsible for you out on the streets.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm not asking you to.

[Major Calloway]

I am sorry, Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Still got that plane ticket?

[Major Calloway]

It'll be at the hotel in the morning.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

This time I think I'll use it.

[Anna Schmidt]

Come in, Mr. Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Thanks.

[Anna Schmidt]

I thought you were going to Major Galloway.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That's where I've been.

[Anna Schmidt]

You said you were not going to see me again.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm not. I just wanted to say goodbye. I'm going back home.

[Venuti]

Why?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

It's what you've always wanted. All of you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Cat.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I know you had a cat.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Kitty, kitty, kitty.

[Izzy]

What's the matter?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Don't you want to play?

[Anna Schmidt]

I had better let him out.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He's not very sociable, is he?

[Mary Manning]

He liked only Harry.

[Anna Schmidt]

What made you decide so suddenly? Or did Calloway tell you? Tell me about Harry. Do you know I also saw Galloway this afternoon? Harry is better dead. I knew he was mixed up, but not like Dash.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I knew him for 20 years. At least I thought I knew him. Suppose he was laughing at fools like us all the time?

[Anna Schmidt]

He liked to laugh.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

70 pounds a tube. He wanted me to write for his great medical charity. Perhaps I could have raised the price to £80.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, please. For heaven's sake, stop making him in your image. Harry was real. He was not just Your friend and my lover. He was. Harry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Don't preach to me. You talk about him as if he had occasional bad manners.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, I don't know.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm just a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls. You?

[Jessica Wellington]

Me?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Don't be such a fool.

[Stanley Vance]

Of course.

[Anna Schmidt]

If you had wronged me and asked me whether you were fair or dark or had a mustache, I would not have known.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm leaving Vienna. I don't care whether Harry was murdered by or Pepesco or the third man. Whoever killed him, there was some sort of justice. Maybe I would have killed him myself.

[Anna Schmidt]

A person doesn't change because you find out more.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Look, I've got a splitting headache. And you just stand there and talk and talk and talk. I hate it.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, you hate it.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You know, that's the first time I ever heard you laugh. Do it again.

[Anna Schmidt]

There is not enough for two laughs.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

If I make comic faces, if I stand on my head, wouldn't stand a chance, would I? Oh, now. First your laugh, and now this.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, go away. Just go away.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

It was dark in this street, deserted. The large empty square with the black buildings looming up around it. Not a sound. Just the mewing of a cat.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Suddenly I saw the cat was licking a pair of black shoes. Who's there? What kind of a spy do you think you are, waiting in a doorway to tail me? Little cat got your tongue? Come out of there.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come on. How did you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Harry.

[Mr. Popesco]

Harry.

[Major Calloway]

And this is where you think you saw him?

[Mickey Manning]

This is.

[Major Calloway]

This is where you saw Harry lie.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

This is where he vanished. I told you, he came out of that doorway. It. Don't you believe me?

[Major Calloway]

You heard footsteps, you saw a shadow, and then you saw Harry Lyon. I tell you, I. Oh, yes, yes, of course. And then he vanished with a puff of smoke and a clap of thunder.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What's that over there?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

That booth in the square?

[Major Calloway]

It's a kiosk inside a steps leading down to the sewer tunnel.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Tunnel? You mean a man could.

[Major Calloway]

All right, Martins. Yes. A man could go down there, but I don't believe he did. And I don't believe it was Lyme.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Then why did you even bother to come out here?

[Major Calloway]

Do you realize what this means? What you're forcing me to do? If you saw Lyme tonight, then someone else was buried in that cemetery.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

It was like a page out of Edgar Allan Poe. The grave diggers, the men holding torches, the open casket. And then an official of the cemetery turning to Calloway.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You knew this man, Major you can identify him?

[Major Calloway]

Yes. Yes, I knew this man. Joseph Harbin, medical orderly at the General Hospital. Well, I suppose the least I can do is apologize, Martins. Obviously you did see Harry Lyon. Thanks.

[Charlie Borden]

I'll.

[Major Calloway]

I'll drop you off at the hotel, and then I.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

If you don't mind, you can drop me off at Anna Schmidt's apartment.

[Major Calloway]

You won't find her there.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Oh?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why not?

[Major Calloway]

Because by now she's been arrested by Sergeant Payne.

[Roma Wines Announcer]

Why?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What for?

[Major Calloway]

Her passport. It's wanted by the Russian police. No, she should be at my office by now.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Then I'd see her there.

[Major Calloway]

No, Mr. Martins, you cannot see her there.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

We'll just step in the office. Ms. Schmidt, Major Calloway wants to speak to you.

[Major Calloway]

I'm sorry to bring you back here at this hour, Ms. Schmidt.

[Anna Schmidt]

You are arresting me because of the passport, is that it?

[Major Calloway]

I'm not interested in your passport. When did you last see Harry Lyon?

[Anna Schmidt]

Two weeks ago.

[Major Calloway]

I want the truth. We know that Lyme is alive.

[Anna Schmidt]

What did you say? I'm sorry.

[Major Calloway]

I just come from the cemetery. Another man was buried in his place.

[Anna Schmidt]

Where is he? Where is Harry?

[Major Calloway]

That is what we want to find out.

[Anna Schmidt]

I do not seem able to understand anything you say. I. He is alive. Now. This minute, he is doing something.

[Major Calloway]

We know he is somewhere in the Russian zone. In a few minutes, Captain Brodsky will be questioning you about your papers. Tell me where Lyme is.

[Anna Schmidt]

I do not know.

[Major Calloway]

If you help me, I'm prepared to help you.

[Anna Schmidt]

Martin's always said you were a fool.

[Major Calloway]

Vienna's a closed city, Ms. Schmidt. Lyme can't get away.

[Anna Schmidt]

I wish he were dead. He would be safe from all of you.

[Major Calloway]

Dan, you leave me no alternative. All right, Sergeant, take her to Brodsky.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

In a few moments, we'll bring you act three of the third man I've chosen as our guest tonight an actress who plays an unusual role in the most unusual picture. The David O. Selznick Alexander Corder production Gypsy Blood. Let me introduce Miss Irene Winston. I understand, Irene. Your part is heard but not seen.

[Irene Winston]

Yes, Mr. Kelly. I play a voice, the voice of a mother speaking to her daughter through a gypsy charm book. Jennifer Jones is a star, you know. A lovely, wild, half gypsy girl. When she wants guidance, she consults her book, and that's when I speak.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hmm.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Gypsy Blood was filmed abroad, wasn't it?

[Irene Winston]

Yes, except for my part done right here in Hollywood. I wish I could have gone to Wales and to Shropshire in England, where the outdoor shots were made. They're magnificent.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

You Know, I'd say this wild, dramatic countryside is the right background for this fantastic place.

[Irene Winston]

And Jennifer Jones is so right for the part of the gypsy maid with a dark, striking beauty. She never has to use makeup, you know, with that fabulous complexion.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Speaking of charm books, Irene, I'm sure there's a leaf in yours on luxe toilet soap.

[Irene Winston]

I should say so, Mr. Kennedy. The very first page. Like the screen stars, I wouldn't trust my skin to any other soap. Luxe soap facials are such a grand complexion care.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Won't you tell us how easy it is to be luxe, lovely Irene?

[Irene Winston]

I'd love to, Mr. Kennedy. I just cream the rich lather on with my fingertips and work it in.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Well.

[Irene Winston]

Then I rinse with warm water and finish with little splashes of cold. Then I use a very soft towel and pat my face dry. I like the way my skin feels afterwards, too. So soft and smooth.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Thank you, Miss Irene Winston, for telling us about Hollywood's own complexion care. Lux has active lather that makes you sure of gentle, thorough cleansing. Try these beauty facials and notice the difference in your skin. Discover why 9 out of 10 screen stars depend on fragrant white luxe toilet soap. We pause now for station identification. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

The curtain rises on Act 3 of the third man, starring Joseph Cotton as Holly Martins and Evelyn Keats as Anna Schmidt.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I called on Dr. Winkle early the next morning. I told him I wanted to talk to Harry lyme.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Harry Lime, Mr. Martins?

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Are you mad?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

All right, I'm mad. I've seen a ghost. You just tell Harry I want to see him today. This afternoon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Be reasonable. How can you stand there and.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I saw Harry last night. Now, I passed a park a few blocks from here. An amusement park. You tell Harry I'll meet him there. You can arrange it. You or Kurtz.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You take a great deal for granted, Mr. Martin.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Do I? Or do ghosts only ride by night? Dr. Winkle, He was there at the amusement park at 3 o'. Clock. Harry Lime striding down the midway, a broad smile on his face. Immaculate and chipper as always.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Holly.

[Charlie Borden]

Holly, old man, how are you?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hello, Harry.

[Charlie Borden]

Well, well, they seem to be giving you quite a busy time.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Now, listen, I want to talk to you.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Of course.

[Charlie Borden]

Come on, let's go in the Ferris wheel.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Ferris wheel?

[Charlie Borden]

Business must be bad. Look. Not a soul to get in our way. We'll have it all to ourselves, our little talk. Or does it make you dizzy way up there?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Come on. We're wasting.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Ah.

[Charlie Borden]

What's wrong with this. Well, up we go, Holly. Kids used to ride this thing a lot in the old days. But they haven't the money anymore, poor devil. It's good to see you, old man.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Maybe it is, considering I was at your funeral.

[Charlie Borden]

It was pretty smart, wasn't it?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You know what happened to your girl? She's been arrested.

[Charlie Borden]

Tough, eh? Tough Bob. Don't worry, they won't hurt her.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

They're handing her over to the Russians.

[Charlie Borden]

What can I do, old man? I'm dead. And I. Exactly who did you tell about me?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I told the police.

[Charlie Borden]

Unwise, old man. Unwise.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

And Anna?

[Charlie Borden]

And did the police believe you?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You don't care anything at all about Anna, do you?

[Charlie Borden]

I've got quite a lot on my

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

mind you wouldn't do anything for.

[Charlie Borden]

What do you want me to do? Be reasonable. Do you expect me to give myself up?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why not, Holly?

[Charlie Borden]

You and I aren't heroes. The world doesn't make any heroes outside of your stories. I've got to be so careful. I'm safe only here in the Russian zone. And I'm safe here only as long as they can use me.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

As long as they can use me. So that's how they found out about Anna.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You told me them, didn't you?

[Charlie Borden]

Don't try to be a policeman.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

What do you expect me to be, part of your.

[Charlie Borden]

You can have any part you want as long as you don't interfere. I've never cut you out of anything.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yes, I remember the time they raided that gambling joint. You knew a safe way out.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Sure.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah, safe for you. Not safe for me, old man.

[Charlie Borden]

You should never have gone to the police, you know. You ought to leave this thing alone.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Have you ever seen one of your victims, dictums?

[Charlie Borden]

Look down there, Holly.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Way down there.

[Charlie Borden]

Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots of humanity stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped, would you rarely, old man, tell me to keep my money. Or would you calculate how many duts you could afford to spare free of income tax?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Lot of good your money will do you in jail.

[Charlie Borden]

You forget that. Jail's in the other zone. There's no proof against me besides you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I should be pretty easy to get rid of.

[Charlie Borden]

Pretty easy.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I wouldn't be too sure.

[Charlie Borden]

I carry a gun. I don't think they'd look for a

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

bullet wound after you hit the ground.

[Charlie Borden]

No, not from this height.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

They've dug up your coffin, Harry,

[Charlie Borden]

and

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

found Harp in pity.

[Charlie Borden]

Holly. What fools we are to talk this way. As Though I'd do anything to you, or you to me. You're just a little mixed up about things in general. Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people in the planetarium. I talk about the suckers in the mugs. It's the same thing. They have their five Year plan. So have I.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You used to believe in God.

[Charlie Borden]

I still believe in God, old man. I believe in God and mercy and all that. But I'm also convinced that the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here now, do they? Well, it appears our little journey into the ozone is over. Where are you going?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'm not sure.

[Charlie Borden]

Then wait a minute. I'd like to cut you in, Holly. Nobody left in Vienna I can really trust. And we've done so many things together. When you make up your mind, send me a message through Kurtz. I'll meet you any place, anytime. But it'll be you I want to see. Old men, not the police.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Remember that, eh?

[Charlie Borden]

And don't be so gloomy. After all, it's not that awful. Remember what the fellow said. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

The Kukul Clock. So long, Holland. It would arrange to meet him here.

[Major Calloway]

Martin's in the international zone. Why not a cafe, a restaurant, anywhere?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You expect too much, Calloway. I I I know he deserves to hang, but don't ask me to tie the rope.

[Major Calloway]

Okay, Martins. Forget it.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Pardon me, Major.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Are you busy?

[Major Calloway]

Oh, yes.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Come in.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Captain Brodsky, we have identified the girl called Anna Schmidt.

[Major Calloway]

Oh, yes. Well, I've questioned her, Captain. We have nothing against her.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

But we have.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

We shall apply for her tomorrow at

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

the Four Power meeting. She has no right to be here.

[Major Calloway]

I've made an application too. I've asked your people to help me with Harry Lyne.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That is a different case, Major. It is being looked into. Good afternoon.

[Major Calloway]

That's the sort of thing we're up against.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Martins, what price would you pay for Harry Lyme?

[Major Calloway]

A considerable price.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Honor schmidt's freedom.

[Major Calloway]

Yes, Mr. Martins. I think even that might be arranged.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That's your train over there, miss. If there's anything else I can do.

[Anna Schmidt]

I do not understand. Major Callow is Sergeant. Why has he done this? Helping me to run away?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I expect he's got a soft spot for you, miss. You're well out of things now. Good luck, miss.

[Anna Schmidt]

Thank you.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Two minutes before the train leaves.

[Anna Schmidt]

Anna, what are you doing here?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I just wanted to see you off.

[Anna Schmidt]

Well, how did you know I'd be here? You have seen Major Galloway again?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Of course. Not now, Anna. Send me a wire as soon as you arrive.

[Anna Schmidt]

Where is Harry?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He's safe in the Russian zone. I saw him this afternoon.

[Anna Schmidt]

How is he?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He can look after himself. Don't you worry.

[Anna Schmidt]

Did he say anything about me?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Tell me all the usual things.

[Anna Schmidt]

No. Something is wrong. Did you tell Calloway about meeting him?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Of course I didn't tell Calloway.

[Anna Schmidt]

Why should he help me like this? The Russians will only make trouble for me.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, it's his headache.

[Anna Schmidt]

Why are you lying to me?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

We're getting you out of here, aren't we?

[Anna Schmidt]

No. I will not go. You have seen Calloway? What are you two doing?

[Major Calloway]

Well.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Well, they. They asked me to help take him. And I'm helping.

[Anna Schmidt]

Poor Harry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Poor Harry? Poor Harry wouldn't even lift his finger to help you.

[Anna Schmidt]

You. You have your precious honesty. You want nothing else, do you?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You still want him.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, I do not want him. I do not want to see him or hear him. But he's still a part of me. And to harm him to.

[Mary Manning]

No.

[Anna Schmidt]

No, I cannot do it.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Get on the train.

[Anna Schmidt]

No.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Why?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why do we always have to?

[Anna Schmidt]

If you want to sell your services, it does not mean I am willing to pay the price. I loved him. You loved him. What good have we done him? Love? Look at yourself. They have a name for faces like that.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Anna didn't leave. I asked Calloway to get me on the first plane out of Vienna. This time he said I'd need a priority. He told me to come with him. He had another call to make first.

[Major Calloway]

You. You know what this place is, don't you?

[Charlie Borden]

Hospital.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Yeah.

[Major Calloway]

I really didn't have to come here. I just thought it might interest you. You Open that door, Mr. Martins. This is a ward. All the children you see in there are the result of Lyme's penicillin racket. Most of them had meningitis. Terrible pity, isn't it? Children. There are 40 of them in this one ward. No, I'm wrong. 38. Two of them died last night. Well, we've got to be on our way.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Your priority.

[Major Calloway]

You'll be going straight to New York, I suppose. And let's see, with any sort of connections, you should be.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

All right. All right, Calloway. You win. Win?

[Izzy]

Win what?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I'll stay. I'LL be your dumb decoy.

[Mickey Manning]

Duck.

[Major Calloway]

Thanks, Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

The plan was very simple. Through Kurtz I got word to Harry that I wanted to see him. Calloway picked the spot. The Cafe Orel at SA 06:00'. Clock. At 5 minutes to 6, I sat down at a table in the corner, my eyes glued on the entrance for Lyme. I didn't even see her walk up.

[Anna Schmidt]

Evil not come. Not Harry.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

How did you know I could spot?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Now Kurtz has been arrested.

[Mickey Manning]

The others too.

[Anna Schmidt]

I know. Major Galloway stopped me out there on the street. Harry will not come. He is not a fool.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

He'll come.

[Anna Schmidt]

What is your.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, no price.

[Mickey Manning]

Anna, please go away.

[Anna Schmidt]

Honest, sensible, harmless Holly Martins.

[Jessica Wellington]

Holly.

[Anna Schmidt]

What a silly name. You must feel very proud to be a police informer. To be able to.

[Izzy]

She stopped talking.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

She just stood there. Across the cafe in the doorway was Harry Lyne.

[Anna Schmidt]

Harry, get away. The police are waiting for you.

[Mary Manning]

Run. Run.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Suddenly there was a gun in his hand. Sergeant Payne was in front of him now. Harry fired once, but he never stopped moving. He ran through the cafe into the kitchen.

[Izzy]

And he's gone.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I was out in the street now, from all sides, the police were closing in. One group was running toward a kiosk. One of those little buildings covering the entrance to the sewer. Among them was Calloway.

[Major Calloway]

Martins, go back.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Don't be a fool.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I've got a gun. I've got Sergeant Payne's gun.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Put it away and get out of here.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Where can he get to?

[Anna Schmidt]

The Russians.

[Major Calloway]

Only he'll never make it. We've got men closing in from both directions.

[Mickey Manning]

They'll kill him.

[Major Calloway]

That is up to Mr. Lyme. Wait at my office if you like.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Just get out of here.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I went back to the street and there was a taxi on the corner. And I gave Anna's address. But it was the sewer. Was thinking of the sewer and the kiosk in the square across Nana's house. I climbed down the iron ladder and waited. Far off I could hear the shouts of the police. And below, as I clung to the wet wall, the sluggish churning of the water.

[Mr. Popesco]

Then.

[Mickey Manning]

Then a different sound.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Someone was coming.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Coming closer, closer.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Stay where you are, Harry.

[Max Hartsfield]

Holly.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, my friend.

[Mary Manning]

My good friend Holly.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You're through, Harry.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You haven't got a chance.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I won't miss a second time. And you're in my way.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Harry.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Give up. Give up before the song. Suckers and mugs. All of you suckers. And.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

This was where I came in. The cemetery. The freshly dug grave. The priest reciting the credo the gravediggers in the background. Calloway and Amen. Now it was over. The girl turned and started down the long road between the trees.

[Major Calloway]

What time is it, Martins?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hmm? Oh.

[Mickey Manning]

Oh.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

2:30.

[Major Calloway]

Get in the jeep. I'll have to step on it if we're going to catch that plane.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Calloway, can't you do something about Anna?

[Major Calloway]

I'll do what I can if she'll let me.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

She's alone.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

She's.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

She's so alone.

[Major Calloway]

Well, perhaps I'll be.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Now, wait a minute. Let me out.

[Major Calloway]

Well, not much time.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

You know I can't just leave.

[Daemon Van Weston]

Please.

[Major Calloway]

I'll be sensible, Martins.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

I haven't got a sensible name. Callaway. We had past her. I stood at the edge of the road and waited. What could I say to her? What could I tell her? There wasn't time to think. She was in front of me now. Anna. But Anna Schmidt did not turn her head, not even a glance. She just kept walking down the road.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

In just a moment. We want you to meet our stars in person. And Mr. Keeley will tell you all about next week's show. When you see Miriam Hopkins in her current pictures, you'll realize why she's considered one of Hollywood's most fascinating and versatile stars. Always lovely to look at. She depends on luxe Toilet Soap for complexion care. And for a luxurious beauty bath too. I'm devoted to Lux in the big bath size. She says it gives the most wonderful creamy lather. And the fragrance is delightful. Try this satin smooth bath cake Miriam Hopkins recommends. Lux has active lather. You'll find it leaves skin so fresh. Luxe. Lovely all over. And the perfume in Lux Toilet Soap will remind you of spring blossoms. Yes, it's easy to be luxe. Lovely all over with this fragrant white bath cake 9 out of 10 screen stars use. Now here's Mr. Keeley with our stars.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

We say goodbye to the third man, but welcome our stars for another curtain call. Joseph Cotton and Evelyn Keeley. Well, there's no doubt that our play tonight has one of the most famous musical themes we've ever heard.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Famous like your Lux radio theater theme. Theme music here, Bill. Whenever I hear it, I naturally think of Lux.

[Anna Schmidt]

In Hollywood, I think of Lux soap and its wonderful complexion care. There's a theme I can't praise enough.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Well, thanks, Evelyn, but when we look at you, we can understand why. But now, how about your musical preference in theme songs?

[Anna Schmidt]

Decidedly on the Latin side. Definitely down South America way.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Could this be the influence of your trip down to South America for the film festival.

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes, and, and we had a wonderful time. It was held at a beautiful summer resort on the coast called Punta del Este. And every night we saw motion pictures representing every country in the world. And the award was finally won by Italy.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

You know, I think our audience would be interested to know that this was the first world film festival ever held in this hemisphere and that you were invited as the guest of the Uruguayan government.

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes, and they simply couldn't do enough for us all the time we were there. And then Joan Fontaine and I went on to Rio de Janeiro.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Joan Fontaine? Well, she's been doing quite a bit of traveling lately.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Such as in the Paramount picture you both made for producer Hal Wallace, Joe.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, that's right, September Fair. We actually made the picture in Italy. Now that's a beautiful country to visit, Evelyn.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, no need to. I saw your picture and I don't know when I've been so impressed with an authentic background.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, there's nothing like travel.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

So where are you taking your radio audience next week, Bill?

[William Keeley (Producer)]

We are going back to the early 1900s, Joe, and revive some of the most captivating music of our times. It's 20th Century Fox's gay musical oh, you beautiful doll. And for the first time the producer of the picture will be one of its stars, the inimitable Georgie Jessel. And as his co stars Joan Caulfield and Bob Crosby.

[Anna Schmidt]

Oh, we'll certainly be listening. Good night.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Good night.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You are both friends.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Who is this Hollywood star?

[Libby Collins]

At 15 she left a private school in Vienna to act in films. This photogenic dark haired beauty came to America in 1937 and was starred in

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

her first American picture, a Viennese American beauty. Mm, that sounds like Hedy Lamar.

[Libby Collins]

Right. And Hetty is typical of Hollywood in her enthusiasm for new luxe with color freshener. Like so many Hollywood stars, she thinks the new luxe is more wonderful than ever. Insists on it for all her lovely washables. New luxe with color freshener keeps white things dazzling, white print sparkling, all colors gay as new every time you wash them. It's a real beauty bath for colors and so safe. Take Hedy Lamar's tip. Get new luxe with color freshener Tomorrow give all your nice things that lovely luxe look.

[William Keeley (Producer)]

Lelever Brothers Company, the makers of luxe toilet soap. Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theatre presents oh you beautiful dolls starring George Jessel, Joan Caulfield and Bob Crosby. This is William Keeley saying good night to you from Hollywood.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Third in our cast tonight were Ben Wright as Major Calloway, Edgar Barrier as Baron Courts, Ted De Courcia as Harry, Ann Fritzfeld, Harold Dyron. Fourth Bill, John Stone, Herbert Butterfield, Jack Crucian, Robert Boone, Norman Field, Jeffrey Silver, Gladys Holland and Eddie Mar. Our play was adapted by S.H. barnett and our music was directed by Rudy Schrager. This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again next Monday night to hear George Jessel, Joan Caulfield and Bob Crosby in oh, you beautiful doll. Stay tuned for my friend Irma which follows over these same stations. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System,

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Presenting Orson Welles 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 zither, music by Anton Karas.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

That was the shot that killed Harry Lyme. He died in a sewer beneath Vienna. As those of you know who saw the movie the Third Man. Yes, that was the end of Harry Lyme, but it was not the beginning. Harry Lyme had many lives, and I can recount all of them. How do I know? Very simple. Because my name is Harry Lyme. You say what you will about Harry Lyne. He at least was honest in his desire for money and the good things of life. Harry believed in seeing the world at other people's expense. Sometimes the cost ran high, as high as a man's life. Let me tell you about it. I know what I'm talking about. Sa.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

And now, Orson Welles as Harry Lyon,

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

the third man in Clay Pigeon.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

In 1942. My fortunes being, for the moment, at ebb tide, it pleased me to return to America, to New York, specifically because I heard that an old and important enemy of mine was in difficulties and wished to see me. I went to the hotel where he was staying, supposedly incognito, and made myself available at the bar. But nothing happened. I ran up quite a bar bill and things were looking serious, so I ordered another drink. And then.

[Mary Manning]

Mr. Lyon? Mr. Harry Lyon?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Yes. Yes, indeed.

[Mary Manning]

I'm sorry to bother you.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Bother for more bothersome things. Whereas at least attractively packaged, I'd gladly be the most burdened of men. Won't you join me?

[Mary Manning]

I didn't come here for that reason, Mr. Lyon.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I know it's a friendly gesture and I have a hunch we're see a lot of each other. Now, since you know my name, why don't you tell me yours?

[Mary Manning]

That's unimportant.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

As a matter of opinion.

[Martha]

Will you.

[Mary Manning]

Will you please come with me?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I say Isn't that approach a little bold? After all, an establishment like this frowns

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

on such an obvious.

[Mary Manning]

Please, Mr. Lime, come with me. You're the only one who can save him.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Me?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Save anybody?

[Daemon Van Weston]

You've come to the wrong Harry, lineman.

[Mary Manning]

Please, you must, even though you hate him, hate him?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Now you interest me. Now, just which antagonist do you mean? I've got an awful lot of enemies.

[Mary Manning]

We're wasting time. He'll. He'll pay you a great deal of money.

[Stanley Vance]

Money?

[Mary Manning]

You can name your own price.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

The price of my hatred comes pretty high. But for money and hate, Lyme goes anywhere. Lovely lady who lead on. Profitable business should be made as painless as possible. And this girl is a pleasure. A dark Irish type with eyes the mood and color of the restless channel waters. And hair as blue, black as the proverbial raven's wing. Began to enjoy myself. My waiting game is going to pay off through an old enemy. It's a fine evening for cold mischief. We took the elevator in silence. Walking down the corridor to pursuit of my enemy, I studied my young guide. She caught my glance. Her color mounted. I smiled.

[Mary Manning]

We're almost there.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I say, are you bringing me on a wild goose chase?

[Mary Manning]

If it is, then it's the goose that lays the golden egg, Mr. Lye. This is it.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

You don't approve of me, do you?

[Mary Manning]

Follow me, please.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I'd love to. You're just like the rest of the public, dear girl. Always clamoring for high ideals, fair play, and always the first to indict without a hearing.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

Yes?

[Mary Manning]

I found him, sir.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

To the contrary, I found you.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Come in, by all means.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

The honorable James Hadley, I believe.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Aren't you surprised to see me, Lyon?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Not particularly. This morning, when the wind from the east river brought with it the usual aroma of stale Greece. Ancient Greek garbage and sewer gas. Had an idea I might run into Governor Hadley before the day was out. Aren't you in the wrong state?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Still the same old Harry. Insulting, conniving.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

You're the man I'm supposed to help.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

It's not by choice, believe me.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

That I do believe, Governor. The dislike is mutual. Well, Governor, it's nice leaving you.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Wait, Lime. I'm offering you $15,000 if.

[Mary Manning]

And I better leave, Governor.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Oh, no. So you're responsible for bringing Lyme here, Nora. Perhaps my only hope of keeping him here.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

You're quite wrong, sir. There are 15,000 reasons holding me here for the time being. How long I remain depends on you.

[Anna Schmidt]

Talk.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I know how you hate me. I also know your capabilities, Lyme. You're the only man to accomplish the job I have in mind. I've already told you what I'd pay. Lyme, I'm begging you to help me.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

That's good. You begging me for help. All right. Sing your sad song, Hadley, old man, about the beast you must feed, you know. Don't I always know, Governor? Knowing who was after your official scalp, I realized you'd undoubtedly come to me for help, Use one poison as the antidote for another. Made myself available. You found me.

[Mary Manning]

You mean you knew it all the time? Even downstairs, you knew in general, dear

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Nora, Though I neither knew the sordid details nor the price to be paid for my services.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Show him the pictures, Nora.

[Mary Manning]

Yes, right here in the briefcase. Here you are.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Thank you,

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Governor. I didn't think it even of you.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You see, Nora, even Lime believes the man in those cursed pictures is me.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Very interesting. Who's the lady?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

How should I know?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Oh, come on now, Governor. Official manners, or in this case, even unofficial manners, demand that you at least know the name of your female companion. Has American etiquette deteriorated to the point that you summon such creatures with A hey, you.

[Mary Manning]

Mr. Lime, I'll have you know that Governor Hadley is not the man in those pictures.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

And good little girl should never, never tell lies. Nora.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Oh, hang it all. She's telling the truth. Lyme. I never frequent such clubs as those pictures show. And here, here, look at this one. You recognize a newcomer to the party?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Yes. Cato. Cato, the robber baron. I admire his instincts, but not always his performance. He's a bit clumsy.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Gambler, ward heater, grafter.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Such dear, nostalgic words. You almost make me homesick, Governor.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Be sensible, Lyme. Can you imagine me in such company at any time? Particularly with an election coming up next month?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Not unless you're even more stupid than you used to be, James. But then everything is possible.

[Mary Manning]

Really, Mr. Lime, this is the but.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Cameras don't lie.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You above anyone else should know better than that, Lion. How many times have you faked the picture to gain your answer?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Touche, Governor. But then I always do things the hard way. You told Nora that yourself.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Yeah, hard for your victims. Oh, but this isn't getting us any place. No matter what else you may choose to think of me, Lime, you know my term in office has been cleaned

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

insofar as proof is concerned. The incorruptible Governor Hadley. However, these pictures prove extremely embarrassing. Old man. The untouchable Hadley seems to have been taken.

[Mary Manning]

I don't know much about you, Mr. Lyon, except that you hate Governor Hadley. But now he's asking for your help. No matter what happened in the past between you, please help him. He's willing to pay. He said your hatred came high. Wasn't his offer high enough?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Nora.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

That's quite all right, Governor. I admire honesty and loyalty, even though I don't approve of it or believe in it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come here, Nora.

[Jessica Wellington]

What?

[Izzy]

Come here.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I want you to stand right before me. Look right into my eyes.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Straight in my eyes.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Answer a question.

[Mary Manning]

But I. Well, Mr. Lyme, what is it?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

If I were the governor and you were my secretary, would you be as honest, as loyal?

[Mary Manning]

As honest, yes. As loyal, no.

[Izzy]

I see.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Why the great concern about these pictures, Handy? Surely your indiscretions aren't that important.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Then you are going to help me?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I'm considering it.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Then you know those pictures are important, Lyme. Cato's going to use them to ruin me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Why?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

He wants control of my state. Either his crooked syndicate moves in, or he sends these pictures to every newspaper in the state on the eve of the election.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Troopers. Cato has improved with the years. He's almost worthy of me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I know.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Never expected you to understand, Lamb. But I thought the fee might make it worth your while. Re election means a great deal to me. I worked hard for my office. I don't want to win or lose because of a hoodlum like Cato. And I don't want my wife, my family to be subjugated to this kind of smear campaign. They don't deserve it.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Spoken like a true family man. An American and a politician.

[Mary Manning]

Governor Hadley, there must be some other way to get the negatives in this. This man.

[Charlie Borden]

Please.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Not Elaine, the fair Elaine the lovable Elaine the Lily, maid of Astolat. High in her chamber, upper tower to the east, guarded the sacred shield. I'll get the negatives and the rest of these pictures from Cato. For 15,000.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Oh, thank heaven.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

And dismissal of all charges against me in your state, old man.

[Daemon Van Weston]

What?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

The prize is cheap, Governor.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

For your career, your family.

[Mary Manning]

But, Governor, you can't.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Just a moment now, Nora. Very well, Lyme. You get me those negatives and you'll receive your money and full pardon.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I take the money now.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I expected that.

[Stanley Vance]

Pay him, Nora.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

How?

[Mary Manning]

How do you know you can trust him, sir?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

The only man I know who can outwit Cato. I've got to trust him.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

My fee, Miss Peyton.

[Mary Manning]

Here it is. You'd better count it, Mr. Lyne.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

But why? I trust you.

[Mary Manning]

Oh.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Just how do you plan to contact Cato?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

That's Easy enough. Easy to find man like Cato. The hard part isn't avoiding him. You should know that. Very well, Governor.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Well, what is my next move?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Right back to your nice, snug capital. Return to your ivory tower, Hadley, and carry on business as usual.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Very well. Might as well start packing. Nora, we'll leave at once.

[Anna Schmidt]

Yes, Governor.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

What?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Nora stays with me.

[Mary Manning]

I. I what?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Now, listen here, lad.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Cato doesn't know her by sight, does he?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I don't think so. He contacted me away from his office

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

and she'll be on go between. You can still pack. Nora, I want you to register at another hotel, the Plaza 2. I'll meet you at the cocktail lounge in three hours.

[Mary Manning]

Just what do you think?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Nora, I. I'd appreciate it if you would cooperate with Mr. Lyme in whatever way you can.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Well, Nora?

[Mary Manning]

Very well, Governor. I'll do my best.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You understand, Nora. Well, we must trust Mr. Lyman.

[Izzy]

Well, who wants to talk in the hall? Kato let me in.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come in, then.

[Izzy]

Well? Well, what have you found out, Izzy? I am tailing Governor Headley like you want. Ever since he sneaked into town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come to the point. Always staying away from the point. The Governor is making contact with the. With every main hood in New York. Nobody wants to go against Cato. Only Hadley must be finding someone who will go against you because he leaves the hotel three hours ago.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Leaves?

[Izzy]

Checks out, is taking a powder. But before that, he sends his girl down to the bar.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Girl?

[Charlie Borden]

What girl?

[Izzy]

Who knows her name, but who this girl talks to down at the bar, you'll never guess. Come on, give. I'm not playing guessing games.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

All right, all right, Cato.

[Izzy]

So don't get sore at me. I'm trying to tell you all the time. She meets a Harry Lime. I hear her say the name Harry Lime.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

This is not good news.

[Izzy]

Harry Lime's the only guy, but the only guy who can announce me up. He would have to come to New York.

[Mary Manning]

Come on.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come on where?

[Izzy]

To the Plaza, you jerk. If Lyme's to come into this game, he's gonna be on my side. Alive or de.

[Mary Manning]

Mr. Lyon. Mr. Lyon.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Nora.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I never dared hope you'd be this eager to see me.

[Mary Manning]

It's Cato over at the bar.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, have a drink.

[Mary Manning]

What are you going to do about Cato?

[Daemon Van Weston]

Careful.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Here comes the waiter.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Yes, dear.

[Mr. Popesco]

What?

[Stanley Vance]

Will you help?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

What's your pleasure, honey?

[Mary Manning]

Nothing. Anything.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Well, that offers a pretty wide choice. Waiter, Scotch and water for two.

[John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)]

2.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Scotch and water it is.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I want you to smile or look Relaxed. Listen very carefully to what I have to say.

[Mary Manning]

I'll try.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Glad you blessed me once before I die.

[Izzy]

What?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Your smile. It's the first time I've seen it. It's radiance. It's breathtaking. Please leave me once. Nona's. When you're going to the powder room, don't return. Go to your room and stay there.

[Mary Manning]

I don't understand.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Mr. Cato is preparing to beard me in his den. And I want you around when he does. He's coming this way.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hurry.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Haven't called you by morning. Get back to the capital fast.

[Mary Manning]

What about you?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Why, Nora, I never dreamed you cared.

[Mary Manning]

Oh, wallet.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You're Scotch and water.

[Daemon Van Weston]

See?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Fine, fine. There you are.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Thank you, sir.

[Izzy]

Drinking a lone lime, that can turn into a bad habit.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

True.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Biscayto.

[Max Hartsfield]

In the flesh.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

It is flesh, isn't it, old boy?

[Izzy]

Same old Harry. How about buying me the next Harry at my plate?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Why, Trubus, old man. Are you thinking of taking me for a ride?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Why, it's all right.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

It's all right, old man. I came for anything.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Shall we go? Orson Welles returns in just a moment as the third man.

[Mary Manning]

It.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Orson Welles as the third man continues with play Pigeon.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I know it sounds funny, but it's true. I was being taken for a ride. A long one. A silent one. Once we got in the car, Trubus stopped talking and I was not in the mood to make any conversation. I had my tiger by the tail. I waited for his move.

[Izzy]

Wait in the car, Izzy. This won't take long.

[Sergeant]

Okay, boss.

[Izzy]

I am waiting.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

After our nocturnal tour, you bring me to a ruin like this. Really, Cato? I thought you were doing pretty well.

[Izzy]

I'm doing fine, Harry. Place on the state line, not too far from the capital.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Makes it handy for you or the governor.

[Izzy]

Wait and see.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Trubas. Well, this is a surprise.

[Max Hartsfield]

Hadley.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Who's this fellow, Trubus?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

The face is Jim Hadley's and the voice is almost identical inside.

[Izzy]

Luke. Come on, Harry. And I'll buy you that drink I promised.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Sure. Drinks on the house.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Yes, Yes, I could use one now.

[Izzy]

Sit down, Harry.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I didn't think I'd see you so soon again, Trubus.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What happened? Did he shut up for the drinks? Oh, sure, sure.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Troopers.

[Izzy]

Now, Harry, I'm open for business.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

To risk the obvious, this isn't Governor Hadley.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You bet I'm lost.

[Izzy]

The Hadley boys were identical twins. Luke here was the black sheep of the family. Also was supposed to have died in a train wreck 15 years ago.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Identical twins the oldest pitch in the world.

[Izzy]

Luke was the man in those pictures. So simple it always works. He even fooled you, Harry.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, I can be fooled.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I can be fooled. All that.

[Izzy]

Ah, Luke's lived on jealousy and whiskey ever since he seen the accident. He crossed my path several years ago just as I was figuring how to move into Jim Hadley's state. He was an answer from heaven or the devil.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I thought I had luck.

[Izzy]

I can give you a fat fee, Harry. And a fine chance to pay off your old grudge against the governor.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Since when has benevolence become one of your characteristics?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

What about this? Bad. You only paid me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Shut up.

[Izzy]

As you know, I've already made the first contact with the Governor.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

How do you know? I know.

[Izzy]

Takes one to catch one, Harry. As I said, I got Jim over a barrel. I know he's bought you to get the pictures from me. But if you come into my deal, you not only make yourself some money but you can put the final squeeze on the good governor.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Well, I think you set me up as a clay pigeon. Are you, old man, sending me to make the actual transaction so you can move your syndicate into the state while I'm caught with my blackmail down?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No, Harry.

[Mickey Manning]

You know I wouldn't do that.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Coin a cliche about thieves, Cato.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I know.

[Izzy]

How much is the governor paying you to get these negatives?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

15,000 and a full pardon.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

15,000? Why, Trubus, you only gave me $500 to pose in those.

[Izzy]

I'll give you 25,000 to come in with me.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Harry. 25 in advance.

[Izzy]

Half of it. The rest when the deal is clinched.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Listen here, troopers. If you're so quick to throw money around, toss some my way.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

I be.

[Izzy]

And a percentage of my gross to take when I'm in the state. It'll be like an annuity.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Harry, you listen to me, Trois.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You cut me in on this big

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

deal you're talking about.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

If you don't, I'll go to jail.

[Izzy]

You know what, Luke?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Nothing, kid. I. I didn't mean. I was only trying to.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

What are you going to do, Trubus?

[Izzy]

Take this rat and let Mugsy work him over. He talks too much.

[Mary Manning]

No.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

No, I promise not to talk.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You need me. I'll never. Come on.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

No, please.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Come on.

[Izzy]

Well, what's your answer, Harry?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Do all of your business partners get that treatment, old man?

[Izzy]

No, of course not. He's always asking for it. But now ask. For instance, why we'll clean up in Hadley. State slot machine numbers racket, dope protection and that's just the beginning, Harry. Give us five years and we'll be making money from every man, woman and child in the United States.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Compared to you, Joe Stalin is an amateur. I don't think I'll settle for a mere percentage. Kato. No ideals.

[Charlie Borden]

Gotta be 50.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

50 or I won't come over and slide down your cellar door.

[Mickey Manning]

50.

[Charlie Borden]

50.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Why you.

[Izzy]

Do you think you'll get away with this?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I'm certain of it.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

No.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Because the young lady was with me at the Plaza.

[Izzy]

What about it?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

She's Hadley secretary. I spent a great deal of time effort on getting a complete file of your misdemeanors, Cato. If I fail to contact her, copies of said file will immediately be sent to all state and federal law enforcement officers. Your pitiful tin tights will be forgotten in the headlines about Trubist Cato. You wouldn't want to be named public enemy number one. 50.

[Izzy]

50 it is.

[Mary Manning]

Governor Hadley.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Nora.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Good heavens, girl, what's happened?

[Mary Manning]

Harry Lime. He's with Cato now. Or at least he talked with him last night. By this time he might be dead.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Dead?

[Mary Manning]

Why don't you call the police or the FBI? You're the Governor. Do something.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

You too, Nora.

[Mary Manning]

What do you mean?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

The notorious Lime charm. The man's brutal, merciless, vindictive. Lives only for himself. Yet when he wishes, he can hide all this with a cloak of magnetism. Great fascination. He's blinded you, Nora.

[Mary Manning]

No. I hate him. He's a horrible man. I. Oh, I don't know what he is. It's been terrible, all of it. Seeing Cato waiting all night for Harry's call. Not hearing, coming here.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I know, my dear, believe me. I'm sorry. Yes?

[Mary Manning]

Governor Hadley, Mr. Harry Lyon to see you. Harry and Mr. Cato.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Cato here.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Send them in, please.

[Mary Manning]

Yes, sir. What can it mean?

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I don't know.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Good afternoon, Governor Hadley. Nora.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Mr. Lime.

[Izzy]

And true is Cato. Surely you haven't forgotten me, Governor.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Cato, I told you once and for

[Izzy]

all, don't be too hasty, Mr.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Governor.

[Izzy]

My proposition is so good that Mr. Lyme has come in on the deal with me.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What?

[Mary Manning]

But you agreed to.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Lyon. Is this. This thug telling the truth?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I've bought certain contracts for your signature, governor. They'll allow Mr. Cato full scale operations in your state.

[Mary Manning]

Oh, no, you wouldn't.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I can't believe it, Ly. Not even you.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

The price of the negatives, Governor. Oh, you better give me those negatives now, Cato. Prove our good faith to Governor Hadley.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

What good faith?

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Oh, but Here you are, Harry.

[Izzy]

The negatives and the rest of the

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

pictures all nicely tied. With a pretty ribbon, Governor. A ribbon as blue as Nora's eyes.

[Jessica Wellington]

You.

[Mary Manning]

How small can you get?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Now, when you sign Mr. Cato's contracts, Governor, I'll deliver the negatives to Ms. Patron.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

That's right.

[Izzy]

Just sign on the dotted line, Hadley, and everybody will be happy.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Sold out because I trusted a rat.

[Izzy]

Here's your pen, Governor.

[Charlie Borden]

And here.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Back.

[Roma Wines Announcer]

Nora.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Get out of the way, Lyme.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

What.

[Izzy]

What are you doing?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Down on the floor, Governor. Down on the floor.

[Mary Manning]

Gun.

[Izzy]

Are you crossing me, Harold?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Hold it, Cato.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

It's my deal.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, yes.

[Mary Manning]

Harold.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Oh, you killed him.

[Mary Manning]

What happened? No shot.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I suggest you call an ambulance, young lady. There's been an attempt on Governor Hadley's life.

[Mary Manning]

My goodness.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

And keep those people out of here for a minute.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

How can I ever thank you, Lyon?

[Mary Manning]

You risked your life, Harry, and all the time we.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Save it.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

Save it.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

I had to kill Cater to take over his very lucrative business myself. I'll keep these negatives, Governor.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You're.

[Izzy]

What?

[Mary Manning]

No, Harry. Oh, no.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

This is one time, Governor Hadley, when you are not getting off so easily to these incriminating negatives in my possession, like the sword of Damocles, will be suspended over your uneasy head. From now on, call them Harry Lyme's annuity, Governor. Now, if you'll excuse me.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

I might have expected this.

[Mary Manning]

And I was beginning to think you were a human being.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

By the time I left the Capitol building, the stars were out. The stars was reached by hard ways. I searched for a likely alley. Alley that was dark enough. Lonely enough. That's not do well enough. Better remove the ribbon. Blue. Blue ribbon. Better to burn them.

[Lieutenant Driscoll]

Hi.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Another voyage of the night. Greetings, cat. Mutually. Come closer. Seem to be ablaze. First, the negatives. My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night. But are my friends. And O my foes, gives a lovely light. Thank you, friend. Your applause is deeply appreciated. Now we'll add the pictures. Does that warm you cats?

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

You there. What do you think you're doing in this alley?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Isn't it fairly obvious, officer? I'm making a fire.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

How are you now?

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Learning some love letters. Girl named Nora.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Nora, huh? Well, that's a good Irish name.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

Shed the bluest eyes this side of heaven. I'll eat the ashes to you, Officer.

[Izzy]

Hey, by the speech, you're hairy.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Lyon, come back here.

[Joseph Cotton (Holly Martins)]

So long.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

Harry Lime returns in just a moment,

[Mary Manning]

Sam.

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

And now, harry lime. Goodbye for now.

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

And remember what Ben Franklin said about honesty being the best policy. I wish I could just keep slipping my mind.

[Host/Narrator]

We just heard Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton, the stars of the Third man that will do it for this week's show. Thanks so much for joining me. I hope you'll be back next week as I share another of my favorite movies. In the meantime, you can check out down these Mean Streets, my old Time Radio Detective podcast. New episodes of that show are out on Sundays. If you like what you're hearing, don't be a stranger. You can rate and review the show in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. And if you'd like to lend support to the show, you can visit buymeacoffee.com meanstsotr I'll be back next week with more Hollywood Hollywood stars, each of them appearing in a tale well calculated to keep you in

[Harry Lime (Orson Welles)]

suspense.

[Mickey Manning]

Ladies and gentlemen, the chief hope of our enemies is to divide the United States along racial and religious lines and thereby conquer us. Let's not spread prejudice. A divided America is a weak America. Through our behavior, we encourage the respect of our children and make them better

[Benjamin (Ben) Wellington]

neighbors to all races and religions.

[Mickey Manning]

Remind them that being good neighbors has helped make our country great and kept her free. Thank you.