Huge zither score. Apparently it was a big deal. And the 'Third Man Theme' spent 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard charts in 1950. Who knew. (I cannot confirm that this is the only zither song to hit number one.) In all seriousness, the score for the movie and the sound of the zither really added to the ambience of the movie. So, well done with the zither.
This film is total 'film noir'. Shot on location in Vienna. Based on a story by Graham Greene. It's an engaging, interesting and suspenseful film.
There is apparently a famous 'speech' by Orson Welles in the movie (I'd never heard of it prior to the film, but in my post movie watching research, this kept coming up):
"You know what the fellow said – 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. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
The word on the street is that this was not written by Greene, but was improvised by Welles.
The other 'famous' thing about this movie is the entrance of Welles. He doesn't turn up in the movie until about half way through. And his entrance is pretty awesome. (I won't ruin it for you if you haven't seen the movie yet.)
That's about all I know. It's a really good film. I would recommend it. Two thumbs up from me.
One word to describe 'The Third Man': Noir.
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