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July 06, 2007
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I'm currently obsessed with Orson Welles' 'Mr Arkadin'. The story behind the film, the film itself (all eight(!) versions of it), the novel credited to Welles which he said he didn't write a word of, and especially the radio dramas where Welles worked out most all of the story beats for the movie.
Of course, I'm talking about 'The Lives of Harry Lime', a radio drama spun out of the classic 'The Third Man'. It's all about Harry's escapades galavanting around the world, starring Welles as the titular antihero. For my birthday, I picked up the Criterion Collection edition of the film, containing several of the versions, the novel, essays, documentaries, and my favorite, three episodes of the radio show. This of course sent me out scouring on the internet and I found this here site which has downloads of most, if not all of the fifty two half hour episodes.
Check some of these out, most especially 'Man of Mystery'. I just love this kind of stuff.
Posted by Schamberger at July 6, 2007 10:32 AM