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Classic Films

PoliticAverse

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1. Wells' performance was so compelling that someone actually did a radio series...

Reply to mahina (Original post)

Sun Mar 21, 2021, 09:42 PM

Mar 2021

starring Wells recreating the character's (earlier) adventures...

The Adventures of Harry Lime (broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime) is an old-time radio programme produced in the United Kingdom during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprises his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a prequel to the film, and depicts the many misadventures of con-artist Lime in a somewhat lighter tone than that of the film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Harry_Lime

Many of the radio show episodes have been posted on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+adventures+of+harry+lime

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Saw The Third Man last night for the first time ever [View all] mahina Mar 2021 OP

Wells' performance was so compelling that someone actually did a radio series... PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #1

"somewhat lighter tone" CloudWatcher Mar 2021 #3

Yes in the radio series he's more the "loveable con man". n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #4

In the mid-1960's we had no television at home... Rollo Mar 2021 #5

+1 CloudWatcher Mar 2021 #2

The only negative part of the movie... PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #6