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The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed heard a musician in a Vienna heuriger and scrapped the idea of an orchestral score entirely.

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[icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 104 minutes
[icon:STAR] Director | Carol Reed
[icon:HEART] Country | United Kingdom
[icon:BOLT] Award | BAFTA Award for Best British Film
[icon:FIRE] Cinematography | Robert Krasker

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.

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A City In Four Zones
Graham Greene wrote it as a story first and a screenplay second, and the setting does most of the work: Vienna in 1948, bombed flat, divided between four occupying powers, patrolled by joint military police who cannot agree on jurisdiction. An American pulp novelist arrives to take a job from an old friend and finds a funeral instead. What follows is a detective story in which the detective is the least competent person on screen, run through streets shot at deliberately wrong angles by Robert Krasker, whose tilted frames and wet cobblestones won the film its only Oscar. Orson Welles appears for roughly ten minutes, gets the best entrance in cinema and the best speech, and then gets chased through the sewers by everyone he has poisoned.

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Watching The Third Man
3 Late
3 Contradicted
4 Exposed
5 Revealed
5 Justified
5 Hunted

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Anton Karas was playing zither in a Vienna wine garden when Reed heard him. His theme spent eleven weeks at number one in the American charts in 1950 and the film has no other music at all.

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Welles wrote his own cuckoo clock line and initially refused to film in the sewers, so some of the pursuit is a double in Vienna and some is Welles on a set in London.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
The Third Man on IMDb: full cast and crew