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The Third Man


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LightChaserDec 18, 2005 10:47am
I recently rented this, it's a well done movie, some shots are just incredible.
886510Dec 23, 2005 9:00pm
The Third Man is a great film, Welles is also good in The Lady From Shanghai.

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CoffeeJan 3, 2006 9:37am
Welles was a great actor, and a phenomenal director in the early years. It's such a pity he went downhill later in life.

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LightChaserJan 3, 2006 9:42am
3: Well after Citizen Kane were else can you go?

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CoffeeJan 3, 2006 10:13am
That's precisely the question he should have been asking himself. "What new territory can I explore?". It was all new back then. There was alot to be done with film.
886510Jan 6, 2006 7:19pm
But he did keep growing, he just refused to play along with the studios. Just look at his films, like The Third Man, The Magnificent Amberson's, Touch of Evil, and Kafka's The Trial, all unique, and well crafted pieces of art. These were old studios days remember, when the actors and directors were property just like the set pieces on stage. He refused that system of thought and played his own game, using his rules. That he even made more pictures after Citizen Kane, in the days of power studios, and the outright hatred of Willian Randolph Hearst, is a testament to the power of his craft, and the people who saw his talent and supported it probably at great risk to their own careers.

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jasper1949Feb 28, 2006 8:18pm
The Third Man is a great film, and even better if you have seen the new restored version unedited. From the scenery of the bombed ut buildings and the sewer shots, to the actors from Welles (Lime ) to the minor ones like his landlord and cronies, well done.
Welles did make some great films afterwards, Touch of Evil the Best of the lot.
However, he was always short of money and left innumerable projects half finished because he had to go sell wine or talk to Merv Griffin to pay the bills.
As an actor, check him out in Compulsion, where he plays the attorney defending two murderers, ( a parallel to Darrow defending Leopold and Loeb), Will Vanner in the Long Hot Summer,and finally , in his last big directorial film, Chimes at Midnight, where he plays Falstaff.
3866751May 27, 12:58am
I just can not get the starting scene of Touch of Evil out of my mind. The shots, music, perspective, even the path the figures walked, all fit perfectly into the scene. Great guy really.

luzitJun 4, 7:47am
Some of these 40's and 50's noir movies are amazing, you do not need more or less in the scenes, they are really masterpieces.


The Third Man

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