The Third Man Theme Third Man" came out, but there was not a lot of interest in it. Instead, labels focused on the catchy main theme and released it as a single. The zither-based Anton Karas version excerpted from the film soundtrack was released by Decca in 1949 across Europe with different catalog numbers. It was a 10-inch 78rpm single with "The Harry Lime theme" on the A side and "The Cafe Mozart Waltz" on the B side. This became the most common version heard by European listeners. Lyrics to “The Third Man Theme” were written by American author and historian Walter Lord ("A
The Adventures of Harry Lime office, demanding to be paid for the scripts which "he" had ghostwritten for Welles. When Welles was asked about it later, he smiled: "Don't pay him. They weren't very good scripts." The episodes which were adapted into short stories were: Welles also tried to convert one episode script into a film script for producer Alexander Korda. When that fell through, the story was adapted into a novel and published in France as "Une Grosse Légume" in 1953. The novel was ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy and published under Welles's name. It has never been published in English. The Adventures of Harry