The main character (although defined by his absence) was Harry Lime - English.

Bit of a Harry Lime, when you come to think about it, and almost as elusive.

I don't want to be Harry Lime any more than you do.

Then Welles would speak: "That was the shot that killed Harry Lime.

Yes, that was the end of Harry Lime ... but it was not the beginning.

Harry Lime had many lives ... and I can recount all of them.

Because my name is Harry Lime.

He evaded me like Harry Lime through the streets of Vienna.

From high on the slowly turning Riesenrad it's almost as Harry Lime said - different dots, thousands of them, and these are all glittering.

Harry Lime was dead but Mud Bruneteau lived.