Friday, November 29, 2024

The Movie Tonight: The Third Man -- November 29, 2024

Locator: 44458MOVIE.

Wiki, The Third Man

Wiki, Anton Karas.

Wiki, Graham Greene.

Wiki, Carol Reed.

Joseph Cotten.

Orson Welles.

Alida Valli.

Trevor Howard.

Absolutely fascinating watching this movie through the lens of Casablanca. I've probably watched this movie half a dozen times; this is the first time the Casablanca angle jumped out at me.

The Third Man: 1949, British film noir.

Casablanca: 1942, Romantic drama.

There are moments early in the movie when it seems the Alida Valli character could have been played by Ingrid Bergman, but Ingrid Bergman's character in Casablanca does not fit the Alida Valli character in The Third Man. In the latter, the Alida Valli character is very, very independent, quite unlike the Ingrid Bergman character in Casablanca, a woman very attached to the men she loved.

From google AI:

Cinephilia and Beyond.

The writing is incredible. One wonders to what extent Orsen Wells might have been involved in writing the screenplay.

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