I keep going back to The Third Man. It has everything: good story, humor, good score, great cinematography, and a chase scene with rappelling in a sewer.Harry Lime is chased through sewers ("The Third Man", 1949)
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Showing posts with label third man. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Rappelling Scene
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I keep going back to The Third Man. It has everything: good story, humor, good score, great cinematography, and a chase scene with rappelling in a sewer.
Harry Lime is chased through sewers ("The Third Man", 1949)
I keep going back to The Third Man. It has everything: good story, humor, good score, great cinematography, and a chase scene with rappelling in a sewer.Harry Lime is chased through sewers ("The Third Man", 1949)
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Third Man Scherzo
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I saw this on Classic Arts Showcase tonight, and hoped it would be on YouTube. Frédéric Jenniges on zither. Schönbrunn Palace is in Vienna, which was the setting for the movie The Third Man, of which the music you hear here was the theme.
André Rieu at Schönbrunn - The Third Man
I saw this on Classic Arts Showcase tonight, and hoped it would be on YouTube. Frédéric Jenniges on zither. Schönbrunn Palace is in Vienna, which was the setting for the movie The Third Man, of which the music you hear here was the theme.
André Rieu at Schönbrunn - The Third Man
Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Cuckoo Clock Speech
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After Forbidden Zone, my next favorite movie is The Third Man, which was released in 1949, the year I was born. And my favorite scene in that movie is this one, in which Holly confronts Harry Lime at the Riesenrad, the Ferris wheel in Vienna's Prater amusement park, and Harry (who has faked his own death to put the police off his trail) threatens to kill his old friend Holly to protect his cover, until he learns that the jig is already up. Then on the ground he gives the cuckoo clock speech. The speech was Orson Welles' addition to the script. It's not at all historically accurate. the Swiss didn't even invent the cuckoo clock, and the 500 years of peace is an extreme stretch of the imagination. But even so it makes poetry.
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
After Forbidden Zone, my next favorite movie is The Third Man, which was released in 1949, the year I was born. And my favorite scene in that movie is this one, in which Holly confronts Harry Lime at the Riesenrad, the Ferris wheel in Vienna's Prater amusement park, and Harry (who has faked his own death to put the police off his trail) threatens to kill his old friend Holly to protect his cover, until he learns that the jig is already up. Then on the ground he gives the cuckoo clock speech. The speech was Orson Welles' addition to the script. It's not at all historically accurate. the Swiss didn't even invent the cuckoo clock, and the 500 years of peace is an extreme stretch of the imagination. But even so it makes poetry.
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Friday, April 27, 2007
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