ALL of Orson Welles in "The Third Man" - '49 - HQ

[morgantown1]

This was on TCM last night, my favorite movie

[gigsing]

I wish I was as amoral as Lime. Life would be a lot smoother.

[tgould7]

The greatest grin in cinema history!

[Oeconomist]

@alan78456able—

It's a shame for you to lose an argument with a sociopath such as Lime, but the inventions of the Renaissance, like the cuckoo clock and milk chocolate, are still with us. I'm not sure how marginally useful a cuckoo clock would be, as clocks announced the hour audibly before the cuckoo clock; the word “clock” derives from a reference to the bells that they had.

[iktinous]

@Oeconomist

As much as I love the line allow me some pedantic footnotes: Greene invented the quip to exhibit Lime's callousness. He knew perfectly well that Leonardo,Michelangelo and co were not 'under the borgias' (nor was italy, for that matter, only the Papal States), but a fair bit later, with Pope Julius II etc. More importantly, and to the detriment of Mr Lime's attractively constructed but specious argument (like the pedantic tone?), Switzerland has enjoyed, if one may use that word,(..)

[Oeconomist]

@iktinous—

Since many people take an uncorrect assertion as necessarily true, your “pedantic footnotes” are potentially quite useful. My foot-note here would be that the quip is not in the book, and I'm not sure that it should be attributed to Greene.

In any case, I was not concerned to note that a specific counter-argument was inadequate, not to defend Borgii and war, nor to disparage Switzerland and peace.

[morpheusatloppers]

@iktinous If I may chip in - the story as I've always heard it, is the "cuckoo-clock" part was dreamed up by Orson and he put it into the take - then asked Greene (who was on set) if he minded - and Greene said "No - in fact, I wish I'd thought of it."

[iktinous]

@morpheusatloppers that makes sense, it has Welles' reckless panache. 

[iktinous]

@Oeconomist

..) a particularly bloody and violent history, mostly of inter-cantonal warring. Such was the reputation for swiss savagery that Charles V put them to very effective and devastating effect in 1527 , in the sack of...Rome!!!

[nuscholar1979]

I love this movie. If they ever dared to remake it though, I think Jack Black would make a fine Harry... on second thought. Anyway, thanks for the clip!

[1madDogz]

Awesome: story, director, and actors. Orson could not only be a scene stealer but he pretty much steals the movie as morpheusatloppers noted above.

[Ulysses61]

To think Orson improvised almost all of this scene. A genius!

[avzeolla]

thank you for this post. this is one of my favorite movies ever. beautiful sets, lighting, camera angles, etc.

orson welles' cuckoo clock speech/ epic.

[Keithj136]

such a class film noir,just great....the sound seems better on this video..hummm

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

I love this film! It never would have been the same without Welles...great setting too.

Cotton & Welles worked very well together & I think this is by far, their best film.

[TheClam88]

@PlayIt4MeAgainSam according to Ebert, the Third Man is one of the greatest movies ever made. Yep!

[s33n01d10ts]

@TheClam88 We dont need Ebert to know this one of the greatest films ever made.

[belisariusorb]

From 2 minutes is the greatest film dialogue ever

[instruct2008]

5*'s