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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

How arty.

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

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

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

Um.

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

WOMEN BE (PHOTO)SHOPPIN'!

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

two years pass...

I have three words for you: The Fallen Idol.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Meh. What's 250 miles among friends?

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

Da waren wir uns aber unsicher!

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

He's very anguished and subtle.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

It's his best screen performance

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

What? He does personal appearances?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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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

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link

Have you, Sergeant? Author? Martins? Thank you, Sergeant.
☝🏻😗

― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:12 (one year ago) link

lolllll

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link

i can't very well introduce you to everybody.

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link

Truly delightful character, responsible for one of the most clever tricks in cinema.

― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 04:44 (one year ago) link

no! a major? did you really?

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 06:59 (one year ago) link

_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 (one year ago) link

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

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

Mr. Crabbin?

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

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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

What's the use of another post-mortem?

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

On, pinning things on girls now!

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

Hilda!
Ja?
Führen Sie den Herrn herein!

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

some ice for mr. martins!

― difficult listening hour, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

By some I mean most.

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

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 (one month ago) link

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

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:13 (one month ago) link

Damn that scene is so sad!!!!

― ian, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:50 (one month ago) link

sometimes he said i laughed too much

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:45 (one month ago) link

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