The Third Man

The dog and the book briefly change between Kurtz' two hands when he is being shown where Lime was hit by a truck.

The position of Anna's neck ribbon when she and Holly first talk.

Three cats were used for Harry Lime's only loved cat.

But all three cats had different sizes and colors.

After Harry's funeral, in the Zentralfriedhof, Anna goes into the straight alley.

We see her shadow on the right side on the screen In the two separate back projection shots of Calloway, Martens and Paine, supposedly traveling in a jeep at night in Vienna, a double-decker London bus can be seen in background.

The policemen who come to arrest Anna change between shots.

In dialogue scenes the British policeman is played by Geoffrey Keen.

In shots of the Jeep driving to the apartment, and in long shots, a different actor is used.

Harry Lime's sewer scenes were shot in two locations (in UK studios and on location in Vienna's sewer).

In the Vienna sewer location scenes you can see Harry's breath.

In the sewer shots done in UK you cannot see his breath.

After Calloway has shown Martins the evidence against Lime, Calloway picks up the phone.

We hear his line, "Get me Police headquarters," but we don't see his lips move.

In the sewer before putting fingers through grate, Harry Lime holds the stair's supporting pole with his right hand, but the gun should be in his hand, as displayed before and after this shot.

The line about the cuckoo clock being Switzerland's only contribution to culture is factually incorrectthe cuckoo clock comes from the Black Forest, across the border in S.

Germany.

When Calloway and the police stand waiting for Harry to arrive at the station, an elderly balloon man tries to sell them a balloon.

His balloons have designs printed on them.

Calloway has the Seargant buy one to get rid of the old man but the balloon has no printing on it as the shot of the police was filmed later in London.

As Martins arrives at the funeral, he asks Major Calloway who the funeral is for, a black tombstone is seen behind Martins.

When he walks towards the grave and stands by Anna, the same tombstone is seen behind her.

This occurred because both of those scenes were not filmed on location in Vienna, but later at Shepperton Studios, which only had very few fake tombstones available.

Even today in Vienna, one can take the "Third Man Tour" (Der Dritte Man) except, of course, that Orson Welles wouldn't go into the Viennese sewers and those scenes were done in England. There were actual sewer scenes with a double.

Very dramatic, desolate movie.There are several classic scenes in this movie.

I don't know if Carol Reed set out to prove that film noir was not the exclusive province of Hollywood men like Billy Wilder, but THE THIRD MAN, made by a British director and filmed in and around postwar Vienna with an international cast, is one of the greatest films noirs ever made.The great, underrated Joseph Cotten stars as Holly Martins, a moderately successful writer of pulp fiction who comes to Vienna in search of his boyhood friend Harry Lime.

I have gone back and forth over the years regarding this film. I had seen part of this movie on commercial television way back when old flicks were all chopped up with commercials.

Author Joseph Cotten (Holly) is invited to Vienna by his friend Orson Welles (Harry Lime). There is a major problem with this set-up from the outset as it is revealed that Welles has just been killed.

Set in Post-war Vienne, crime investigation love story, the guy they were searching was not dead Classic.

With its remarkable use of atmospheric tension, stellar performances, cleverly twisted plot & unusual style of filmmaking, The Third Man is an excellent crime thriller that is now widely acknowledged by many as one of world cinema's most influential works. The story is set in postwar Vienna & concerns a novelist named Holly Martins who tries to solve the mystery of the third man who was supposedly present when the fatal accident of his best friend, Harry Lime, took place.

Filmed as though the camera had one tripod leg shorter than the others, along with zithers, seductive shadows, echoing sewers, ferris wheels, cuckoo clocks and a magician's touch, this film is more of an experience than a movie. Impossible to remake, it also captures Vienna at a critical time just after WW2 when it was still occupied by the Allied powers.

A truly stunning, richly atmospheric and endlessly entertaining post-war noir, The Third Man is a film that often crops up on 'all-time great' lists, and deservedly so. Stuffed to the brim with terrific dialogue, memorable set pieces, gripping tension and mystery, and brilliantly disorientating camera angles, the film is a genuine tour-de-force of film-making which stakes a genuine claim as the best film ever made by celebrated British auteur Carol Reed.