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It's time to break this thread out again, because it's on right now: TCM 10:00 PM EST. Get thee to a TV.
Mason reading The Third Man sounds great. I will have to look around for it.patrick1987 said:There's a book on tape of The Third Man by Graham Greene read by James Mason. Who wouldn't enjoy that? I like both narrations of the movie, can't decide which one I prefer, but don't mind trying to decide. That Law and Order episode was good. Vincent D'Onofrio reminds me of Orson Welles, he even plays him in a movie.
1948. Ruins - the detritus caused by the massive Allied bombing of March 1945 (747 US bombers, 1,667 tons of explosives) and then, almost without respite, the Red Army assault on the city: artillery duels, raging fires, 37,000 soldiers dead (Russians and Germans) while the Viennese hid underground in their cellars. It was the ruins which struck Graham Greene when he visited Vienna in February 1948 to research the script for The Third Man. "I never knew Vienna between the wars, and I am too young to remember the old Vienna with its Strauss music and its bogus easy charm; to me it is simply a city of undignified ruins which turned that February into great glaciers of snow and ice." It is the images of desolation which we remember best from The Third Man, the classic film for which Greene wrote the shooting script - the ruins, the Big Wheel and the sewers.
Hemingway Jones said:Anyone who missed it has another shot tomorrow at 6 PM.
I enjoy most of the scenes between Cotten and Trevor Howard. They have some good back and forth banter.Hemingway Jones said:My favorite scene is the first one between Holly and Lime, outside with the shadows obscurring Lime's figure. There are all of those interlocking triangles, then a light goes on in a window and there he is, with a provocative tip of his eyebrow.