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The Third Man

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The Third Man	comment	1949 British Film Noir set in post-war Vienna, directed by Carol Reed from a story by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles.Down-on-his-luck American writer Holly Martins (Cotten) arrives in postwar Vienna to meet with an old friend, Harry Lime (Welles), who has offered him a job. Unfortunately, the day Martins arrives, he finds out that Lime is dead.Martins becomes entangled in a web of stories that make his pulp Westerns seem quaint in comparison. Investigating the death of his friend in order to clear his name from the selling of stolen and diluted penicillin he meets Lime's former love interest, a seemingly crooked cop, and a porter who has seen far too much. Martin's quest to clear the name of his friend drags him into dangerous territory and challenges his preconceived notions of good and evil.The story takes many of the tropes commonly associated with Film Noir and plays with them. The film is also famous for its hypnotic music score by zitherist Anton Karas (whose title theme became a huge hit).Led to the Radio Drama series The Lives of Harry Lime. Welles based his film Mr. Arkadin on one of the plots from that radio show.Be warned that, due to the nature of this film, there are some unmarked spoilers below.
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The Third Man / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
The Third Man / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The International Police patrolling Vienna centre was this by necessity. Each of the British, American, Soviet, and French occupying forces had to be represented, so no MP could roam around without being accompanied by the other three (in the movie, it becomes especially comical when several of those 'squads' are tasked with a simple and straightforward search of Anna's apartment; more than a dozen policemen end up crowding her small abode). And that's not even counting in the native Austrian police.
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The Third Man / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Third Man / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop:
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The Third Man / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Third Man / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Harry Lime. He cares only for his own benefit and seems like he considers people nothing but pawns to manipulate.
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The Third Man / int_1b68e2e2	type	The Chase
The Third Man / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: The film climaxes with a chase into the sewers of Vienna as Harry goes on the run from the police.
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The Third Man / int_1d07e3a0	type	KnightInSourArmour
The Third Man / int_1d07e3a0	comment	Knight in Sour Armour: Major Calloway is a dedicated policeman, but is also a very cynical and pessimistic pragmatist who rejects Holly's idealistic heroism.
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The Third Man / int_1d0b6a7b	type	Insert Cameo
The Third Man / int_1d0b6a7b	comment	Insert Cameo
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The Third Man / int_1d3bc993	type	Mistaken for Special Guest
The Third Man / int_1d3bc993	comment	Mistaken for Special Guest: Martins is believed to be a more famous author by the character Crabbin. This is more developed in the novel, in which the rather macho Martins writes under a pseudonym who shares a surname with a famous novelist known for a "feminine" writing style (according to Word of God, the famous novelist was a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of the very gay E. M. Forster).
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The Third Man / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Third Man / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Used for excellent dramatic effect. Holly is finally convinced that his friend Harry Lime is completely evil and needs to be killed when he sees some of the children who took Lime's phony black market penicillin. We don't see the children, but from Holly's reaction, it isn't pretty, and probably far beyond what could be depicted onscreen at the time anyway.
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The Third Man / int_215f0830	type	Big Shadow, Little Creature
The Third Man / int_215f0830	comment	Big Shadow, Little Creature: Police on a night stakeout see a threatening shadow cast two stories high. It turns out to be a balloon peddler.
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The Third Man / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Third Man / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: What's really depressing is that it was shot on location in a bombed-out, post WWII-era Vienna.
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The Third Man / int_225527db	type	Cult Soundtrack
The Third Man / int_225527db	comment	Cult Soundtrack: Probably the Ur-Example. It boasts a memorable score courtesy of Anton Karas' famous zither music, which sold millions and was even reused as the BGM of the radio series.
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The Third Man / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
The Third Man / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Harry Lime, seeing as throughout most of the movie, he's thought to be dead.
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The Third Man / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Third Man / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor / Spinoff: Welles later adapted three scripts he wrote for The Adventures of Harry Lime into the movie Mr. Arkadin.
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The Third Man / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Third Man / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
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The Third Man / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
The Third Man / int_2ab79021	comment	Emerging from the Shadows: Lime. Given the masterful use of shadows as one of his leitmotifs in the film, it may also serve as an accidental actor allusion. Later on we get Calloway, Paine, and another soldier emerging from the shadows as they wait for Lime.
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The Third Man / int_2e03fb64	type	Embarrassing Slide
The Third Man / int_2e03fb64	comment	Embarrassing Slide: Captain Calloway is about to show the protagonist a slide about incriminating evidence that Harry Lime willingly caused the deaths of countless penicillin recipients by watering it down. Instead... he accidentally shows an educational slide of an elephant intended for the Anglo-Austrian re-education programme.
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The Third Man / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
The Third Man / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: Harry Lime casually opens the door of the ferris wheel while discussing the fiscal worth of human life. Watching him carefully, Holly Martins gets a good grip on the doorframe.
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The Third Man / int_327b5216	type	Black Market
The Third Man / int_327b5216	comment	Black Market: The story deals with the black market in post-World War II Vienna.
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The Third Man / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
The Third Man / int_32d0784e	comment	Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß!
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The Third Man / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Third Man / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Harry Lime to Holly Martins.
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The Third Man / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
The Third Man / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: Orson Welles. Justified considering the place and the year. Or arguably Earn Your Happy Ending because of the place and year.
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The Third Man / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Third Man / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Alida Valli (playing Anna) obviously believed that it it would be appropriate to use several English accents in her role as an east-European escapee of Communism; one time it's Russian, another time it's perfect British English, then it's German English, then one time it's American English, then Dutch English.
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The Third Man / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Third Man / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Very much on the cynical side.
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The Third Man / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
The Third Man / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: Lime gives a tremendously powerful one on the Ferris Wheel.
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The Third Man / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Third Man / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Wounded and thus unable to make it outside the sewers, Harry nods at Holly to finish him off. One thunderous gunshot later, and Lime is done for.
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The Third Man / int_39a63cd3	type	City of Spies
The Third Man / int_39a63cd3	comment	City of Spies: Post-war Vienna is a hotbed of intrigue (and zither music).
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The Third Man / int_3cc67dff	type	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People
The Third Man / int_3cc67dff	comment	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Harry Lime's cynical "cuckoo-clock" speech invokes this trope as a kind of defense and excuse for his actions. Not only saying that what he does is okay, but that it would possibly benefit civilization. Though given how his actions only benefit Lime himself, it's clear that the "cuckoo-clock" speech was only an attempt to manipulate Holly.
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The Third Man / int_3db71fa8	type	Blithe Spirit
The Third Man / int_3db71fa8	comment	Blithe Spirit: Subverted with Holly Martins. He's a brash American who comes to Vienna and thinks he's going to prove everyone wrong about his dead friend Harry Lime, only to end up in over his head and screwing everything up.
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The Third Man / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Third Man / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Holly Martins. At first.
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The Third Man / int_3f99197c	type	Beleaguered Childhood Friend
The Third Man / int_3f99197c	comment	Beleaguered Childhood Friend: The whole plot is essentially built around this relationship between Holly and Lime — except that Lime is believed to be already dead.
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The Third Man / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Third Man / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Lime constantly uses people (notably Anna and Martins) and will throw them away without a thought when they're no longer useful to him.
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The Third Man / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Third Man / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: And how!
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The Third Man / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Third Man / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: More accurately, "doesn't care if they die horribly in a hospital ward", but that's splitting hairs.
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The Third Man / int_49d59be9	type	SceneryPorn
The Third Man / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn/Scenery Gorn: The production put a genuine and bombed-out Vienna to good use. About the only scenes other than interior shots not filmed actually on location were some set in the Vienna sewers; even much of that sequence was actually filmed in those sewers (the Wienkanal storm-runoff system, to be precise), with the sewer cops being genuine off-duty Vienna sewer patrol officers. (Some shots were recreations due to Orson Welles being two weeks late for shooting — thereby missing the bulk of the chase sequence filming — and his unwillingness to go down into the sewers himself.) Even today, Vienna is not above exploiting the fame of the film to attract tourists.
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The Third Man / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Third Man / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: We don't get to see the corpses of the porter or Harbin, or any of Harry Lime's victims in the children's hospital. Somehow, the shot of the stuffed animals and tiny bookshelf crammed in next to one of dozens of identical hospital beds — the only glimmer of the dying child's individuality, of their true being, especially when one's possessions are put away permanently — is worse. Harry Lime's death occurs entirely offscreen. Both of them.
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The Third Man / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Third Man / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Martins is an American pulp Western writer.
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The Third Man / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Third Man / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The iconic shot of Harry grinning from the darkness. The final shot of Anna walking by Holly, completely ignoring him.
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The Third Man / int_4eb2ef02	type	Vehicle Vanish
The Third Man / int_4eb2ef02	comment	Vehicle Vanish: Before Holly can get Harry, a car speeds past him and Harry escapes into the night.
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The Third Man / int_5262c2bd	type	Bullet Holes and Revelations
The Third Man / int_5262c2bd	comment	Bullet Holes and Revelations: Holly and Harry have a stand-off on the stairs up to a manhole tunnel at each other, then it cuts to Captain Calloway hearing the gun go off and Holly comes walking down the sewer tunnel.
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The Third Man / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Third Man / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Not knowing who or what James Joyce was, and not being informed of what literary components he uses in his cheap novelettes, Martins is literally book dumb. It's implied that Holly is just not a good public speaker, and the Joyce questions comes about right around when Popescu shows up, distracting Holly from answering it.
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The Third Man / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Third Man / int_5313c266	comment	Book-Ends: The movie starts and ends with a funeral. Both funerals are for the same character, Harry Lime.
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The Third Man / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Third Man / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Harry Lime. It helps that he's played by Orson Welles, but he's significantly less sympathetic than Charles Foster Kane.
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The Third Man / int_556a4863	type	Virtue Is Weakness
The Third Man / int_556a4863	comment	Virtue Is Weakness: Implicit throughout Lime's speeches to Martins, especially on the Ferris wheel.
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The Third Man / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Third Man / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The famous cuckoo-clock speech is this: For starters, the Borgia did not rule Italy for thirty years. They only ever ruled Rome and The Papal States, and, even then, Pope Alexander VI only had a term for 9 years; with his death, the Borgia were finished as a political entity in European politics. The Renaissance had begun and been ongoing for a hundred years at that point, and it was centered in Florence under the Medici which was a republic (albeit corrupt and oligarchical); that's where Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and others all came fromnote The speech might have been better served if Lime substituted the Medici for the Borgia and made 30 years 160 years. The Renaissance only spread to Rome after the Borgia were toppled, and, while Leonardo did fraternize with Cesare Borgia, his best works note The Last Supper, the Mona Lisa were commissions that preceded and succeeded that association. Switzerland wasn't quite a cultural wasteland drudged by peace. It was the birth place and residence of mathematics geniuses like Leonard Euler and the Bernouli family as well as thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Constant, Germaine de Staël, and Carl Jung. Moreover, for hundreds of years, the Swiss were not only at war with one another, but their main export was The Swiss Guard, some of the finest mercenaries Europe had ever seen, who still serve as the Pope's personal bodyguards to this day. And, of course, the cuckoo-clock was invented in the Black Forest.
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The Third Man / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Third Man / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The final film discards the happier ending initially written by screenwriter Graham Greene and appearing in Greene's novella of the story. Greene later said he preferred the film's ending.
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The Third Man / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Third Man / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At one point in the Vienna sewer chase, a painted "O5" can be seen briefly on a wall. This was the sign of an anti-Nazi resistance group in Austria during World War II. Most likely, that was not put there by the filmmakers. The front of Lime's apartment building has a graffito of the circle + three slashes symbol used by the Iron Front, a 1930s paramilitary arm of the German Social Democratic Party aligned against monarchists, Stalinists, and the Nazis.
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The Third Man / int_63f136ec	type	It Is Pronounced
The Third Man / int_63f136ec	comment	It Is Pronounced TroPAY: Dr. Winkelnote German pronunciation, making it a “V”, not a “W”, not Winkle.
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The Third Man / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Third Man / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Harry doesn't show any remorse for the victims of his fake penicillin.
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The Third Man / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Third Man / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Averted. After Harry makes an Implied Death Threat during his motive speech in the ferris wheel, Holly tells him that the authorities already know that he's Not Quite Dead, so killing Holly wouldn't change anything.
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The Third Man / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Third Man / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Holly Martins never met an idiot ball he didn't like. Unfortunately, he's usually not the one who pays for it.
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The Third Man / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Third Man / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie
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The Third Man / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
The Third Man / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title
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The Third Man / int_7e59945b	type	Ferris Wheel Date Moment
The Third Man / int_7e59945b	comment	Ferris Wheel Date Moment: The film invokes this trope for emotional dissonance. Instead of romantic seclusion, the setting allows an open discussion of crime and murder.
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The Third Man / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
The Third Man / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Holly is investigating the murder of his friend Harry. It turns out that Harry is alive and engaged in horrible crimes. He's the villain of the story.
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The Third Man / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Third Man / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Lime is on screen for very little time, but there would be no story without him.
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The Third Man / int_84fde8d1	type	Big Entrance
The Third Man / int_84fde8d1	comment	Big Entrance: Harry gets one of the best entrances in film history.
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The Third Man / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Third Man / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: Post-war Vienna is almost a character itself. Carol Reed stated that the fact it was still being tussled over by the US, Brits and USSR gave it an air of tenseness it normally wouldn't. invoked
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The Third Man / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
The Third Man / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Justified. Vienna's real spacious sewers were used in the film.
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The Third Man / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Third Man / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Happens to the hero. Did we mention this is a Film Noir?
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The Third Man / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Third Man / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Half the point of the movie is to question, dissect, and generally shred American notions of heroism.
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The Third Man / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
The Third Man / int_8b442f50	comment	A double inversion, actually. Producer David O. Selznick, who was known for happy Hollywood-style endings, insisted upon the bleak Did Not Get the Girl finale, even though screenwriter Greene, whose writing style was known for being incredibly depressing, originally intended to have the movie end with Anna embracing Holly after the funeral.
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The Third Man / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Third Man / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Harry Lime is the central figure of the entire story, even though the movie's second scene is his funeral. Of course, he's not really dead...
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The Third Man / int_8b9c512e	type	Down the Drain
The Third Man / int_8b9c512e	comment	Down the Drain: The climactic chase takes place in the Absurdly Spacious Sewer system of Vienna.
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The Third Man / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Third Man / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Harry Lime.
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The Third Man / int_993cf18f	type	Not So Different
The Third Man / int_993cf18f	comment	Not So Different: "If I offered you $20,000 for every one of those dots that stopped moving, would you really tell me to keep my money, or would you start calculating how many dots you could afford to spare?"
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The Third Man / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Third Man / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: A light example, but Anna faces deportation from the Russians for being from Czechoslovakia. Lime also mentions he does some work for the Soviets, in return for them turning a blind eye to his activities.
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The Third Man / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
The Third Man / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: It is famously used in order to emphasize how totally out of his area the American main character is when he visits Vienna.
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The Third Man / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Third Man / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The Harry Lime theme underscores the menace and charisma of Harry's presence in the film.
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The Third Man / int_a77e19fc	type	YouKnowTooMuch
The Third Man / int_a77e19fc	comment	You Know Too Much: After Harry Lime makes an Implied Death Threat during his motive speech in the ferris wheel, Holly Martins tells him that the authorities already know that he's Not Quite Dead, so killing Holly wouldn't change anything.
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The Third Man / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Third Man / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Anton Karas's bouncing melodies, happy harmonies, and general bright zither playing over the one of the bleakest, most cynical films ever made.
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The Third Man / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Third Man / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The porter when he gets caught trying to help Martins with his investigation. It's the last time we see him alive.
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The Third Man / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Third Man / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Lime dies, Sgt. Paine dies, Martins Did Not Get the Girl, and said girl will most probably be deported back to Czechoslovakia to face Soviet law. Furthermore, the children who suffer from Lime's diluted penicillin will not get saved by Lime getting neutralized either. But hey, at least future patients will be safe from Lime's diluted medicines, and this counts as well!
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The Third Man / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Third Man / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Martins keeps addressing Calloway as "Callahan". At several points Anna accidentally addresses Holly as "Harry."
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The Third Man / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
The Third Man / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir
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The Third Man / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Third Man / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Delayed Coming Of Age Story: Holly Martins is something of a Manchild: the books he makes a living writing are Escapist westerns with Black and White Morality. His naive search for justice in the death of his best friend Harry Lime forces him to come to terms with a less-than-ideal world.
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The Third Man / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
The Third Man / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: The last minute of the film shows Anna walking down a street towards Holly, but she just walks right past without a glance.
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The Third Man / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Third Man / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Holly Martins, which is part of the point of the movie even though he survives. This is outright Lampshaded by Calloway, who says "[Holly] must have been born to get killed."
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The Third Man / int_b5fd8306	type	Fatal Attraction
The Third Man / int_b5fd8306	comment	Fatal Attraction: A rare male example: Holly arrives in Europe to discover that the man he's come to see is dead, and the police were investigating him. He spends the movie convinced that Harry must have been innocent, and was the victim of some underhanded police conspiracy. He learns later that not only is the man still alive, but he's an amoral Manipulative Bastard, responsible for everything the police believed him to be.
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The Third Man / int_bba30aeb	type	Late to the Tragedy
The Third Man / int_bba30aeb	comment	Late to the Tragedy
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The Third Man / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Third Man / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Many modern viewers may have noticed that the Vienna policemen's uniforms are original Third Reich police and army uniforms with merely the swastikas removed. It's Truth in Television; the film was made in 1949, and the police and armies had not yet been issued any updated uniforms so early after the war (not even for the filming). These uniforms would remain until well into the 50s.
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The Third Man / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Third Man / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Both Holly Martins and Major Calloway. Martins is a Classical Anti-Hero; he wants to solve the mystery of his best friend's death and bring justice to the world. However, he's overly idealistic and is a Manchild and a Idiot Hero, though he does grow wiser at the end of the film. Major Calloway, on the other hand, is a Pragmatic Hero; he wants to capture criminals and bring an end to crime. However, he's willing to blackmail innocents, use people as pawns, and kill in cold blood if it's necessary. He's also The Cynic and a Knight in Sour Armour, rejecting all of Holly's notions of heroism.
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The Third Man / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
The Third Man / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: Done in the original UK release by director Carol Reed, and in the US version by Joseph Cotten.
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The Third Man / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Third Man / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Lime's basic line to Martins.
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The Third Man / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
The Third Man / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: An unusual case, as Greene wrote the story as a novel first without any intent to publish it, believing that going straight to the screenplay format would make him lose the soul of his idea. It ended up being published a year after the film's release.
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The Third Man / int_cc7e9502	type	Humans Are Insects
The Third Man / int_cc7e9502	comment	Humans Are Insects: Harry Lime reveals his thoughts on humanity to Holly from atop the Vienna Ferris wheel while looking down upon the park visitors: "Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those... dots... stopped living forever?" Seems Harry's got a touch of Nazi genocide fever. Class A Chaotic Evil — a calculating and intelligent villain with a wistful smile that marks the musings of a psychopath.
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The Third Man / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Third Man / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The title refers to Harry Lime.
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The Third Man / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Third Man / int_cdfe12c3	comment	We don't get to see the corpses of the porter or Harbin, or any of Harry Lime's victims in the children's hospital. Somehow, the shot of the stuffed animals and tiny bookshelf crammed in next to one of dozens of identical hospital beds — the only glimmer of the dying child's individuality, of their true being, especially when one's possessions are put away permanently — is worse.
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The Third Man / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
The Third Man / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: The cynical, post-war antidote to the optimism and hope of Casablanca. It contains many of the same story elements and inverts them. Watch them back to back. It's amazing. And depressing.
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The Third Man / int_d058677e	type	Amusement Park
The Third Man / int_d058677e	comment	Amusement Park: Lime gives the "cuckoo clock" speech inside the Ferris wheel at the city's Wurstelprater park.
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The Third Man / int_d0dd22a7	type	The Adjectival Man
The Third Man / int_d0dd22a7	comment	The Adjectival Man: The title of the film.
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The Third Man / int_d371868b	type	Precious Puppy
The Third Man / int_d371868b	comment	Precious Puppy: The adorable puppy that just appears in one scene with Baron Kurtz.
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The Third Man / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
The Third Man / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Orson Welles dithered on showing up to Vienna for filming, arriving two weeks after shooting started. To shoot around this, others dressed in Welles' costume (appropriately padded to approximate Welles' emerging girth) for long shots.
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The Third Man / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Third Man / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Holly and Harry were both English in the original novella. In the film, they're American.
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The Third Man / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
The Third Man / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: Possibly the best use ever in film. Although the crew allegedly presented director Carol Reed with a spirit level at the end of production, so that he could get his shots level next time.
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The Third Man / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Third Man / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Anna gets the same lecture on how evil Harry is as Martins, but that doesn't make her any less worshipful of him. Her justification: "A person doesn't change just because you learn more about them." Apparently, Anna doesn't do Fridge Logic. Harry was always a sociopath. Though the reason she loves him, forging her papers and thus letting her stay in Vienna longer, stands regardless of what else Harry did.
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The Third Man / int_dcaaab60	type	Old Friend
The Third Man / int_dcaaab60	comment	Old Friend: A darker example. Holly goes to post-WWII Vienna to meet up with Harry, who ends up having become a child-killing criminal, and whose actions turn Holly from a jovial and semi-innocent guy into a severely depressed one.
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The Third Man / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
The Third Man / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: The screenwriter (author Graham Greene) wrote a book that was published to coincide with the film release with the British officer's POV.
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The Third Man / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
The Third Man / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Used by Baron Kurtz (albeit in a non-threatening context), making this trope Older Than They Think.
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The Third Man / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
The Third Man / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Halt! Stehenbleiben, oder ich schieß! Also the 5-year old boy, always with the same sing-song intonation: "Mörder! Mörder! Mörder!"
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The Third Man / int_e277967	type	What Is Evil?
The Third Man / int_e277967	comment	What Is Evil?: The famous cuckoo clock speech.
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The Third Man / int_e55d8627	type	Present Absence
The Third Man / int_e55d8627	comment	Present Absence: Harry Lime is one of the most famous examples in all of cinema. His actions influence the story, yet he's barely in the film.
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The Third Man / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
The Third Man / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	At several points Anna accidentally addresses Holly as "Harry."
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The Third Man / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
The Third Man / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Lime's associate Kurtz certainly has his share of signifiers.
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The Third Man / int_ed6c3220	type	Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics
The Third Man / int_ed6c3220	comment	Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics
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The Third Man / int_f09ac6a6	type	Chekhov M.I.A.
The Third Man / int_f09ac6a6	comment	Chekhov M.I.A.: Harry Lime. And as is typical of the trope, he becomes important later on.
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The Third Man / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Third Man / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Lime wordlessly asks Martins to shoot him once it's clear there's no escape.
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The Third Man / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Third Man / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Probably not the intent, but the fact that the little boy is smiling while he's yelling about how he thinks Holly killed the porter is a little off-putting.
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The Third Man / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
The Third Man / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: Subverted. Holly thinks his cabby is abducting him and is working for the conspiracy because he Drives Like Crazy and doesn't answer any of his questions, but the guy's really just driving him to the lecture he was scheduled to do (and is extremely late for) and doesn't speak English.
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The Third Man / int_f64a9cf7	type	EarnYourHappyEnding
The Third Man / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Or arguably Earn Your Happy Ending because of the place and year.
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The Third Man / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
The Third Man / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: Baron Kurtz now works as a black marketeer in post-war Vienna.
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The Third Man / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Action Survivor / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Antagonist Title / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Ascended Fanboy / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Beleaguered Childhood Friend / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Black Market / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Bullet Holes and Revelations / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	City of Spies / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Coat Full of Contraband / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Coming of Age Story / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Criminally Attractive / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Dutch Angle / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Writers / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	No Historical Figures Were Harmed / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	Recycled: The Series / int_13c924a
The Third Man	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_13c924a
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The Third Man	hasFeature	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People / int_13c924a
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