The Third Man (Carol Reed)

[CTJ2619]

great movie --

[QMPhilosophe]

My favorite film of all time. The cinematography is fantastic (especially the sewer scene) and the quirky music, camera angles, and expressions on people's faces. Wonderful.

[pgf95]

I was actually searching for "Turd man".

[fatbowe]

@pgf95 look in the mirror...

[mackb909]

Historically inaccurate, OK, but still a great line. Sometimes great lines in music, literature, and movies/TV/stage drama are like that. Anyone remember this? "Early morning April 4/Shot rings out in Memphis sky/Free at last/They took your life/They could not take your pride." Sure, you hear U2's "Pride in the Name of Love," their tribute to Martin Luther King, on the "classic rock" stations only about 5,000 times a week. Problem is, Dr. King was murdered at about 5 p.m., not "early morning."

[direwire]

I've seen the whole movie about 3 or 4 times, and everytime Lime opens the cabin's door I feel its me and not Holly the one in danger of hitting the ground along those "little black dots".

[willsterh1]

"Free of income tax you know, free of income tax... " i like the little things :)

[NoRegretsForOurYouth]

My favorite movie, absolutely love it.

[ElTuco84]

I think Kurtz and Winkel are gay, anybody agree?

[NoiseLTD]

@ElTuco84 Stimmt.

[NormanBates444]

@ElTuco84

Is it important for you?

[phemyda94]

As soon as Welles finished the speech and walked away, I was like "aaaaaaand this film has officially been MADE"

[Cleon29Warrior]

Welles and Cotten - always winning combination.

[joebstarsurfer]

brilliant the Swiss have the cash no wars lol.

[kahakai67la]

best. movie. ever.

[GarlandFraser]

@kahakai67la would be better with a different soundtrack

[johnnydarkness1]

one of the best scenes in movie history

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

At the 5:06 mark, Welles becomes, ever so fleetingly, Bob Hope.

[komaxlaredo]

Acabo de ver Casablanca, North by Northwest y The third man y me espera citizen kane, double indemnity, french connection, taxi driver, the manchurian candidate, jacobs ladder, COMA y todo en una semana...Dios, la vida es sweet.!!!

[krane121]

5:35 - 5:50 There's something indescribable about Orson Welles here when he turns to write on the window. He creates something permanent. That profile is sinister and massive.

[SharpeyCol]

the most destructive and memorable line against any country in the history of cinema? I think so, poor swiss.

[criticism1000]

Greattttt!

[elea1885]

Orson Welles: greatest actor of all time?

[texasB666]

Never saw the movie. Just finished the book though! Fucking great story! I loved it.

[palmatasa]

FALSE.

Switzerland produce in a 200 yeras span the Best cientifica SAGA ever. The BERNOULLI FAMILY who had in johan their best member. With only that family, full of great phisics, mathematicians, and philosophers the swiss country could be very proud....

NEVERTHELESS good phrase and wonderfull movie, but a complete insult to science, physics and mathematics.

[scrato74]

@palmatasa Lime was talking about art, not science, meaning that only passionate living will produce the highest level of art. That´s why he mentioned Michelangelo and the Borgias in comparison to the cuckoo clock, the latter originating from the Black Forest in Germany (although close to Switzerland) - and that´s the only mistake here.

[1080portal]

Unwise holly..unwise...

[shaneu1]

Indeed. "What's good for Halliburton is good for the United States."

[mukkamala1958]

Classic movie. Why can't we make classics like in the past?

[guthax20]

Erm, because the word classic is steeped in antiquity, how can you make classic films in the present...?

[robmorris0]

@guthax20 Even on a great video such as this, some cunt has to turn up.

[shaneu1]

Did ever a more loveable sociopath grace the screen than Harry Lime?

[TheClam88]

@shaneu1 Exactly. And except for his "lovableness" demeanor, Harry Lime's  evil predicts the war profiteering and horrific deaths that dick Cheny oversaw and initiated --but went unpunished.

[Cosmic86x]

orson welles had the coolest voice !

[ctmale1956]

CLASSIC!!!



[Atreus21]

Joseph Cotton is a good actor, but man, Orson blasts him from the water in this scene.

[Dojack]

"Don't think they'd look for a bullet wound after you hit that ground..."

Damn, Orson played one of the coldest mofos of all time.

[genia106]

I'm favoring this again...so I can listen to this great song and see this Masterpiece again and again. Thank you.

[Maldoror123]

swiss people didnt invent the coccoo clock....it was made by the people of the black forest/germany

[WSenator1]

@Maldoror123 - Damn! so they ain't even do THAT?

[Maldoror123]

@WSenator1 *smile* they don`t .

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

@Maldoror123 Welles said this was one part of this speech here that the Swiss were 'very forgiving' of! He heard that many, many times, until the word got out that the Swiss, at least those at the time were not offended by this.

[BobBX542]

This movie was quoted in an episode of Law & Order regarding someone selling fraudulent Flu vaccines, and I swear I thought it was a fake movie. I never even looked it up because I thought it was an invention of the L & O writers. I deffinitely have to see this now.

[bassmanUSSR]

I never understood what the fuss was about until I watched this.

The acting is the most fantastic I have ever seen without a doubt, and the feel of the film itself is really something special. Superb film.

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Classic & Brilliant.

[jimmihshs]

3:56 - 4:20 is my favorite

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

"... and found Harwin ... pity..."

[kahakai67la]

best movie scene ever

[stargell777]

I an see the conversation about "dots moving down there" taking place in hedge fund conference room all across New York...

[1080portal]

"that jail's in another zone!" words can't describe what this line alone means to me, considering his talking child hood friend.

[wcbombers21]

I love the similarities between this film and (M) the Dutch angles in this film were priceless. This was filmed in noir black and white, and set on location in the ruined post-war city of Vienna, the film explores and unfolds mediated relations and on several levels. I also love the fact it was not on some fake prop in a movie back-lot. kudos to the Koo Koo clock lolz

[alfonsinamdq]

Este es uno de los mejores diálogos de la historiar del cine.

[thesparitan]

that was amazing i have goose bumps

[schizoidboy]

I heard that the cuckoo clock is actually German but the line is so good through it's observation (at least he gives them something amusing that hints to a bit of insanity.)

[yettanudder]

Thanks for posting this scene-simply one of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema. Lime is  the perfect metaphor for the American Right Wing-willing to kill his friend to keep his racket going. BTW, I recall these characters being British in the original GG short story. That Reed/Greene changed their nationalities is very interesting (essentially the only Yanks in this film).

[ronwhycherly]

You're putting interpretations on things that aren't there. The only reason for the change was possibly that the studio wanted to push Joseph Cotten. Or to appeal to American audiences who need an American as the hero before thye show any interest. A bit like Steve McQueen and others in the Great Escape, Where not one American was involvved in the breakout (although they were involved in the planning and digging) as they had all been moved to another camp by the time of the breakout.

[joshd321]

Certainly you must realize the American Left is also equally quite willing to kill their "friends" to keep the racket going.

[j43ms]

the "oh shit" look on lime's face when holly martins tells him they've dug up his coffin is priceless!

[19thcentury]

This is simply one of the great films of all time, and I do agree, he was a better actor than director, but he could attract great talent. You should read his life story, simply very different.

[UberSecret]

Good move by Holly @ 4m51s Harry gets pwned.

[BlackenedForLife]

Orson and Cotten! The two star in two of my favourite films: CITIZEN KANE and THE THIRD MAN. This is one of my favourite scenes.

[Hudsucker94]

Such a perfect scene from a perfect movie. The cuckoo clock bit get's me everytime....

[laynasor]

one of the greatest dialogues in cinema

[melloman64]

I ABSOLUTELY agree

[LEOPARDTWO]

Graham Greene!  Wow.

[pschwieg]

The cuckoo cock line was added by Wells; it was not in Greene's original screenplay.

[kahakai6la7]

i LOVE this movie

[mackb909]

One of the classic scenes from one of the best movies of all time..."In Italy in 30 years when the Borgias ruled, they had terror and wars and murder, but they produced Michelangelo and DaVinci...In Switzerland, they had 500 years of democracy and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly." Why can't movies today be even HALF as good???

[stormywindmill]

@mackb909----- Agreed, Incidentally  I have actualy used this piece, when saying farewell to a worried friend one time . Hilarious and a great line .

[vaughntrapp]

@mackb909

"Why can't movies today be even HALF as good?"

Because people today can't be even half as intelligent...

but they will again. the wheel turns, & experience is a great teacher. we have oceans of it coming our way....

[mackb909]

@vaughntrapp: Hope you're right. Doubt if it'll happen in my lifetime.

[bbagginz]

@mackb909  Personally I think that the monologue at the beginning sounds clever, but misses the point: i.e that the Swiss have managed to accomplish 500 years of peaceful democratic living IS the accomplishment and a major accomplishment at that. 2. Contrary to popular belief, the cuckoo clock was actually invented in Bavaria - southern Germany.

[NoiseLTD]

@mackb909 It's a nice catchy line, the funny thing is that is was not in the original Graham Greene script. They needed some filler at the end of the scene for timing reasons. Orson Welles came up with those lines. The Swiss got pissed off because they claim to have absolutely nothing to do with cuckoo clocks and while the Borgias were terrorizing Venice, Switzerland was one of the most belicose countries in Europe. Perverse pride, I call it. So long, Mack.

[akillingjoke]

This is an extremely intense scene that still holds up beautifully today.

[heavyboxes]

Way better than Citizen Kane.

[mackb909]

I disagree; they're both great movies.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

Yeah - Welles was a better actor than director.

[videogodess]

I'm an English undergratuate studying this film for a film module in my course. it's a really interesting film, and brilliantly crafted.

[Poopsmith01]

Welles was before all of our times. A genius in the truest sense of the word.

[bogusfogus]

A perfect " film noir" Bravo!

[fatbowe]

...Love the sound of his shoe's as he walks..

..AND THE LOOK WHO'S HERE WINKEL...COME UP..

...SUCH REPARTE...SO REAL,THE ACTING AND THE

..WRITING...SUPERB...THE LOCATION PERFECT...

..not to mention the music/Anton Karas...etc.

[roadmercy]

brill!

[JimClicks]

Also see and book the ORIGINAL VIENNA TORCH TOUR along the Vienna River

by unterwelt büro vienna

all year long and not so boring and closed as the others.....

[deibid2003]

The third man is #57 in the AFI's list of greatest american movies. I think it should be near the top ten! I'm watchin all the movies in the list, in this site:

blogger-films.blogspot *com

[BlackenedForLife]

The music and the actors.... pure magic. Shame that those things aren`t the way they used to be back in the old days.

[jimmtpicornell]

I love it wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[guodone]

Orson Welles should have won an Oscar for best supporting actor for this scene alone. (...or at least have been nominated.)

[54spiritedwill54]

Orson Welles rules :D Anybody see "Citizen Kane"? or "Touch of Evil"?

[Minute2Dawn]

I've just watched this movie the 2nd time yesterday, and this "cuckoo-clock" speech still runs in my head...

I partially agree with the speech (that sometimes great artists came from years of bloodshed), but it's still never enough to justify crime of any sort.

Anyway, I still love this movie, and Orson Welles too. He's my all-time favorite, a genius indeed.

[betokkikke]

BUT IT'S TRUE...! With due respect:

Catholic Church had the terrible Inquisition in La Nueva España (México today) and killed blacks, indians and oppositors to the "law of God", but also silenced the greatest minds then as the female poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -to me the BEST poet in the world, BUT STILL, IT'S TRUE... We have Humanism in our Philosophy, and art in La Gioconda or David and La Pietá and a paintor big as Caravaggio "exists" because... of Rome's Popes!

[0klara]

I to samo po polsku:

We Wloszech przez 30 lat pod rządami Borgiów mieli wojowanie, terror, morderstwa i rozlew krwi, ale stworzyli Michała Anioła, Leonardo i Renesans. W Szwajcarii mieli braterską miłość - mieli 500 lat demokracji i pokoju, i co stworzyli? Zegar z kukułką."

Orson Welles podobno zaimprowizował to na planie. :)

[0klara]

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgies they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

[jimmtpicornell]

this cracks me up hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahaha

[janachaser]

what about the damn fine chocolate!!

[TOUSNESP]

Only that the cuckoo clock is a German thing from Blackwood Forest, not swiss. I live a mile from Schwarzwald and am a Swiss. Someone wronged something.

[TedMichaelMorgan]

Oh, reality phoosh! Good to know, I suppose.

[pachero4711]

O Wells was good -- he rec. that U can not do something for the world - on the end - he died ..

ha, ha ... blody BLA

##Z

[FumBumDumm]

haha...you know the coo-coo clock isn't even from Switzerland!

^^

[duinnerfs]

Chihuahua's in Vienna, after a war yet, amazing...This movie is ver ystrange

[Trudeau790]

One of the best things about this film is the ever-present post-war Vienna in the background, digging itself out of the horrors of World War II. It gives a depth to this film that is almost indescribable.

[roylee13]

That's kinda hard on Switzerland don't you think?

[jimmtpicornell]

its just a movie man I don't think it was an insult lol

[emmthreejonny]

I think it goes for everything.

[Gorboduc]

I love the way they circle each other at 1:50.

[yonsumaraktsu]

Theres something greater than writing here. I dont know how to say it but---the atmosphere!! It's as if I could feel and imagine Vienna as a whole through that brief scene. Orson Welles---with that boyish look on his face, and the music feels strangely grave and joyful

[labouche250]

I LOVE the cold smile Harry gives Holly at 5:06!

[stewux]

I missed that until I read your comment. You're right, it's great. A very subtle but classy piece of acting

[Gazzura]

Well, the cuckoo clock speech was apparently improvised. Everything previous is great writing.

[hackberryflat]

Unlike the rest of the film's dialogue, note that the delivery is rapid, somewhat "rushed" to get it into a time frame - w/in a "take," all delivered in a somewhat "monotonous" octave. Yes, it has been argued over & over and Welles' comments included - it's still excellent dialogue. It's a "come-back," - a repartee, it was just too good to not use it.

[Hibbs4Prez]

Simply great writing.

[tommygilleran]

So much about this film just makes me appreciate the genius Wells' possessed. This scene is classic with the memorable lines at the end of it. I think the best though is the scene when you see the light shine on him in the darkened doorway he is hiding in earlier in the film and the sly smile he throws Holly's way. Playful and treacherous at the same time.

[ComicDance]

Thank you so much for uploading this. It really helped me out a lot. Thanks!

[Mikeyboy518]

The reaction of Welles after the line, "And found Harwin?" might be the greatest reaction ever caught on film. He SO clearly conveys three or four different thoughts and emotions in a mere 5 seconds. Disarming, pensive, troubled, dangerous. One of the most underrated actors ever.

[TheKubrickFanatic]

It's also brilliant how Welles simply replies- "Hmm..Pity.." under his breath, after the long pause deciding what to do or say. A true Actor of a classic era.

[hackberryflat]

Excuse my intrusion; remember, Welles was a "radio actor" & in that period, many of them had tremendous control over voice & extensive knowledge, techniques, accent control - and Graham Greene's writing provided tremendous influence over the dialogue. All in all - I believe it the finest film noir of that genre.

[MAZZ0Murder]

Orson Welles rules :D Anybody see "Citizen Kane"? or "Touch of Evil"? :D

[oOwollerosekaufeoO]

of course

[TheKubrickFanatic]

Seen both. Both Brilliant.

[FaustusKelly]

Mind you, Lime is a pretty glib man...

[FaustusKelly]

I actually prefer Lime's earlier comments about "they have their five-year plans, and I have mine". The cuckoo clock comment is pithy - but almost glib.

[Jafd88]

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare (...). In Switzerland they had brotherly love (...) and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock".

This famous dialogue was not in the script by Graham Greene but put in the film by Orson Welles who copied it from the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

By the way, the cuckoo clock was not invented in Switzerland.

[Raven9940]

wow I didn't know any of that. Very interesting. Thanks!

[kuren444]

Right. It's a german invention, but Welles say "produced" and not "invented". So the speech is correct.

[stilaboo9]

Cool Welles and Cotten are pretty amazing in this movie!

[gr8pie]

People and proletariats and suckers and mugs! This is such a great film.

[bongolicious]

Gem

[AKZAR67]

The comparison between the Italian chaos that produced the renaissance and Michelangelo and the Swiss tranquility that produced the cuckoo clock is priceless

[Troylito]

Welles himself later described it as the "perfect star part". "In a play, they will talk about Mr. Woo for an hour, who's never seen. Then in the faint distance, crossing a bridge, Mr. Woo appears for 5 seconds, then the curtain drops on the first act. Then everyone says 'Isn't that actor playing Mr. Woo GREAT! Now that's a star part!".

[Nordenwald]

Excellent. All the more true if you consider the fact that Welles was not that great an actor, really (Cotten himself criticized his acting), and yet the one thing people remember most about the film (besides Karas's zither) is the haunting presence of Welles. Credit really must be given to Carol Reed.

[TheCarruths]

Who else could live up to more than an hour of off-screen build-up?

[jwilky]

One of my all-time favorite movie scenes. The "dots" part in the middle of the scene is just frightening, Orson Welles absolutely dominates this movie with his presence. Too bad he only got less than 10 minutes of screen-time.

[upyours192]

I agree but it was his wise choice. I mean it creates this mysterious feel towards him and because he was the director and all I think it was a very wise choice on his part. :p

[jwilky]

Carol Reed directed this film, not Welles. He directed several others though... Touch of Evil for instance.

[upyours192]

Oh wow, that was a huge mistake on my part. My bad... O_o