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

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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)

What you know about The Third Man is BALLS!

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah he does a filmfest every spring in athens. usually straight tcm fare though this year it's a bit more 'contemporary'. details here - http://www.grady.uga.edu/osbornefest/default.php - he's usually got some old farts silver screen idols around to chat too.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Richardson could steal movies in his hammy mode too -- Things to Come as well as Time Bandits. "I'm the Supreme Being; I'm not completely dim."

The gal who played the tart in Fallen Idol was in MirrorMask last year!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I was a friend of Harry Lime

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Alida Valli was great in this, but a little scary in almost everything else, in Dario Argento movies and Bertolucci's Spider's Stratagem. And unconvincing, although Morbius will disagree, The Paradine Case.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Er war gleich toten.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

man i could go for seeing this again. it's been a while.

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

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

-- s1ocki (slytus...), February 21st, 2006 12:13 PM. (slutsky)

still think that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

five months later, even

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

totally obsessed with this in college

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

i think Odd Man Out is a more moving film, but not necessarily better, than Third Man, if that makes sense. How did Reed end up making crap like Agony& Ecstasy and Oliver?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer 8 men out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that John Sayles?? never saw it.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ABOUT CAPITALISM

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

anyone see the l&o last year i think where mccoy has this monologue comparing the perp to harry lime and scores a conviction off it?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's not about about capitalism, should our viewers get confused.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, this is my favorite movie. Yes.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I just decided that, but in a way that I will stick by for a long time.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

8 men out's about capitalism, the third man's about bros before hos.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

haha. eight men out's better. ;)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kind of, I guess. But not really. The "ho" is this movie is just a physical representation of that which the American attaches way too much sentimental value to. The romantic ideal of the unattaiable woman is the romantic ideal of peace, or harmony, or (especially) simplicity. It's the delusion of a person who is basically stupid.

xpost 8 Men Out is totally inscrutable.

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

i was joking. 8 men out is not actually better.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

There's a joke I'm not getting. I'm Tuomas on this thread, aren't I?

― Tab Hunter loves to take his shirt off (kenan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

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