Third Man

Third Man1949

Director: Carol Reed
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Genre: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 104 minutes

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Harry Lime:
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

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