Ticket to Tangier
About This Broadcast
A personal advertisement lures broke Harry from Paris to Tangier, where Patsy admits she placed the notice and paid his fare. Her late husband was involved in heroin smuggling and left a large shipment hidden in an empty villa; Patsy wants Harry's contacts to sell it. An armed former associate arrives for the drugs, but Harry disarms him as police close in. Patsy flees and is later arrested for her husband's murder, while Harry retrieves the hidden bundle. Refusing to traffic the actual narcotics, he dumps the heroin into the Bay of Tangier and sells seven packages of confectioners' sugar to the waiting gangsters for ,000, keeping only the prayer rug that had wrapped the shipment.
This The Lives of Harry Lime broadcast aired on August 24, 1951. It is listed as episode 4 in the archive. The cast includes Orson Welles and Anton Karas. Other credited names include Tig Roe as director and Harry Alan Towers as producer.
The surviving recording runs about 27 minutes. Characters credited in this version include Harry Lime.

