I just watched _The Third Man_ in full for the first time

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Bond Facts:
Not just Bernard Lee. One of the Bond directors worked as editor (or something on 'The Third Man', and you get a nice/terrible 'Third Man' pastiche in 'The Living Daylights'.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this has my favourite ending of any film. Just last month while I watched someone walk up the long road away from my flat and out of my life forever, I thought "This is just like the end of the 'Third Man'".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG. I just went to the Criterion website. OMG. I need to get a high-paying job STAT cos some of those (the Fassbinder BRD trilogy, esp) look absolutely INCREDIBLE. Thanks Christ for the strong £! Down with the $!!!

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Fairly chunky period of my life when I'd have named this as my favourite film. Wouldn't go that far now (others have stood up to repeated viewing better) but still a very great classic. It has a more organic feel than Kane or Touch of Evil and I certainly prefer it to the former (albeit a lot less mind-blowingly impressive or "influential"). If you like TTM, "The Man Between" is an very underrated subsequent effort by Reed with a lot of the same ingredients, including the corrupt, seedy post-war central European setting and stunning photography (plus it has James Mason). Not quite as great, inevitably, but pushes a lot of the same buttons.

― ArfArf, Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the Bond directors worked as editor (or something on 'The Third Man'

Guy Hamilton, assistant director to Reed, director of Goldfinger and a couple of others later.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a photo of me in the doorway where Orson Welles first appears.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you look surprised, amused and fascinated all at once?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I look blurry. My girlfriend shook the camera.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

How arty.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

That's what she said. Domestic violence resolved the issue.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Um.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

WOMEN BE (PHOTO)SHOPPIN'!

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I have three words for you: The Fallen Idol.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:16 (twenty years ago)

A thread about "The Third Man" with no mention of Alida Valli!?!??!?!

http://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/valli/images/valli1-300.jpg

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I saw The Fallen Idol yesterday for the first time in a decade probably. The scene of Phil running through the London streets after the accident looks very much like a visual dry run for the Vienna nighttime stuff in T3M (which, from the first few posts above, does indeed appear to be the most miscredited film of all time; I wonder how irked Reed was about Welles contributing some dialogue grew over the years into it being HIS movie...).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

i gotta see the fallen idol sometime...

i was just thinking about how this one of the movies i could probably watch at any given time.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Having got back from Vienna yesterday, I definitely need to see this again...

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Morbius, I went last night too. Maybe we should have waited until today, since the guy who played the kid is going to make an appearance.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

great movie!! where is the thread with mark's hilarious post about the old dude at the hotel and his 'just a moment!' finger

― ,,, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I am pleased by Ned's reaction to this movie.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

There's all sorts of great movie love stuff in it, but taken as a whole it isn't all that special.

Oh, pish.

A thread about "The Third Man" with no mention of Alida Valli!?!??!?!

It's worse that there's only passing mention of Graham Greene.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Oddly enough I just passed by a library cart with a VHS copy of this film on it. COINCEDENCE?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i saw this in a little theatre when i went to vienna!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Did you afterwards go up in the Big Wheel in Prater and look down on the people on the ground and contemplate their mortality?

One time I went to the Walter Reade to see some old unseen postwar German movies that had previously been dismissed as being "Papas Kino" and I recognized that guy and said "Hey, that's the guy who runs the hotel in The Third Man!" and a German lady of a certain age with lots of hairspray in her (probably dyed) blonde hair turned to me and said: "That's Paul HÃ¶rbiger," drawing out the umlaut as long as possible. Then I looked him up on IMDB and found out his was in more than 100 movies!

A thread about "The Third Man" with no mention of Alida Valli!?!??!?!
I

know her only as "Valli."

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

100? More like 252! He's been in almost as many movies as Isaac Asimov has written books!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

speaking of Third Man references...anyone see XXX? That Vin Diesel film? A real classic, I know, but at some point they go to Prague, the setting suddenly shifts to generic eastern europe city, and you see someone playing the Third Man theme on a zither or hammered dulcimer or whatever the hell it is. I can't remember if they just fucked the location up or if they said it was vienna and I just recognized it as being shot in Prague, but I think they said Prague.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Meh. What's 250 miles among friends?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Da waren wir uns aber unsicher!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Or, one mile for each movie in Paul Hoerbiger's filmography

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Did you afterwards go up in the Big Wheel in Prater and look down on the people on the ground and contemplate their mortality?

yes as a matter of fact!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

And whose name did you trace in the dust on the windowpane? C'mon, you can tell us!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I am jealous as fuck at all of you who can see The Fallen Idol in NYC.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Alfred. I can't even remember how I saw it the first time, all those years ago. After I got home last night I listened to what Geoffrey O'Brien said about it on WFMU and he pretty much got it right, as he usually does. And yeah, you really notice the restored, previously censored material in this one.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Let me also note that I love those trademark Vincent Korda diamond-latticed checkerboarded sets.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I heard some of that O'Brien thing, Ken, but don't have access to the archives. What was the censored stuff? The more 'explicit' dialogue re Baines-Julie's affair?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

And whose name did you trace in the dust on the windowpane? C'mon, you can tell us!

ok ok it was yours!!

btw is your handle a ref to the dashiell hammett book?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I can't wait till the Criterion reissue.

How is Ralph Richardson? I've adored him ever since I saw him in The Heiress.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

He's very anguished and subtle.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

An awesome performance. He's great with the kid too.

What was the censored stuff? The more 'explicit' dialogue re Baines-Julie's affair?
I think so. Maybe some of the stuff with the lady of the evening as well.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

It's his best screen performance

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

the scene in dr winkel's apt is one of my favorite scenes ever

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

It is a zither. That movie is just amazing. I've only seen it once, but some images are just burned in. I cannot wait to see it again.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'd never noticed before, but IMDB reveals to me that Ralph Richardson is the Supreme Being in Time Bandits.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

He's also God in "Bedazzled" (the original, of course)

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

btw is your handle a ref to the dashiell hammett book?
What do you think?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Growing up, I used to listen to The Third Man radio show w/ Orson Welles on the now discontinued KNX 1070AM Drama Hour (curse you KNX!). Hearing the zither theme still takes me back to those days.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Richardson's also rather good (if too plummy) in Long Day's Journey Into Night.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

bob osborne's coming to town with this soon - STOKED

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

What? He does personal appearances?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Peter Bogdanovich is at his worst in the Criterion release. Yes, yes, we get that you were BFF with Orson, but tell me something interesting, please.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

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_I like a good Western. That’s what I like about them, sir. You can pick them up and put them down anytime._

iirc there is a cut and change of location between the two halves of this line, implying payne has been enthusing cheerfully about westerns for an entire jeep ride

Yes! It starts as they are leaving the bar which dissolves into them entering the hotel.

― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:57 (three years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher

― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:57 (three years ago)

Mr. Crabbin?

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:53 (three years ago)

Once when I was hard up I sold some tyres on the black market.

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:03 (three years ago)

Even at the end his thoughts were of you.

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:05 (three years ago)

What's the use of another post-mortem?

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:08 (three years ago)

On, pinning things on girls now!

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:21 (three years ago)

Hilda!
Ja?
Führen Sie den Herrn herein!

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:26 (three years ago)

some ice for mr. martins!

― difficult listening hour, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:44 (three years ago)

Am I wrong in thinking that for some movies, excessive quoting drains the life from them, but not this one?

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2023 00:47 (three years ago)

By some I mean most.

― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 February 2023 00:51 (three years ago)

one year passes...

I watched this with my 12 yo and we got to the last scene where the leaves are falling and Anna walks by Holly without acknowledging him and I started laughing…my kid looked at me strangely and I told him he’d understand when he’s older

― pioneering hardcore username technologies (calstars), Saturday, 2 March 2024 00:30 (two years ago)

you found out my little secret. a man must live.

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:13 (two years ago)

Damn that scene is so sad!!!!

― ian, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:50 (two years ago)

sometimes he said i laughed too much

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:45 (two years ago)

one month passes...

I had my eye on this thread when thinking about watching this tomorrow.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:54 (two years ago)

one month passes...

Holly Martins: the dunciest dunce who ever dunced

― H.P, Friday, 7 June 2024 12:55 (two years ago)

Great write up above Alfred.

Long goodbye really ripped this off didn't it? Uber-righteous friend tries to help out pal who ends up just wanting to screw him over; complicated love-interest involved

― H.P, Friday, 7 June 2024 13:30 (two years ago)

Thank you!

No need to worry about spoilers for a movie more than 20 years old; that's my rule in class at any rate.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2024 13:32 (two years ago)

Ah but there's still bums like me around who benefit from them, not that I hold it against anyone with a differing philosophy

― H.P, Friday, 7 June 2024 13:51 (two years ago)

H.P., that's interesting! The final shot of Long Goodbye is very similar as well, to the point where it seems like it has to be an intentional homage or at least a wink for those in the know.

― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 June 2024 14:52 (two years ago)

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