![]() As the cast members other than Welles are not named, it is fun to pick out the voices of old pros like Sebastian Cabot. By the end of the run the tone gets close to Firesign Theater "Nick Danger" territory.Ĭonsidering their age, sound quality of the transfers is good. Those looking for political correctness regarding ethnic and gender stereotypes should look elsewhere, although the later episodes are performed so tongue-in-cheek it's hard to take offense. There are loads of wacky accents, cartoon villains, mysterious Arabs and femme fatales. As noted elsewhere, the same source material was used here for an episode ("Horse Play") as the 1973 film "The Sting." The earlier episodes take themselves far too seriously, but by the time an episode like "The Dead Candidate" rolls around, "The Lives of Harry Lime" is flat-out comedy. As these radio plays are well written and performed, the only downside might be the overuse of Anton Karas' renowned zither music from the film. The narrator and voice of Harry Lime is, of course, Orson Welles, the finest radio actor ever and capable of making entertainment out of reading a deli menu. The settings are exotic Hollywood fantasy ports-of-call such as Algiers and Budapest. Highly entertaining, this series takes the tone of "The Third Man" film's famous cuckoo clock speech and expands it into several prequels to that film. ![]()
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