The Stranger. Edward G. Robinson is a treasure.
Tag: orsonwelles
Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight. Kinda exhausting.
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949). Number four from Ebertfest. I dug it, and I remember basically nothing about the plot. Post-war Vienna light-and-shadow mystery stuff, cock-eyed angles. Orwell’s reveal, emerging from the shadows, is so good. Nice sewer chase at the end, though I wish they’d tightened it up a bit. I wonder how they managed the sound down there. And basics like navigating around. Apparently that persistent zither soundtrack was a local, on-the-spot hire, some dude they found on location at a cafe during the filming of the movie.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles, in his screenplay for The Big Brass Ring, written in the early 1980s as his last attempt at a commercial Hollywood film (via austinkleon). And thus was born my new endings tag. See also William Gibson and Nietzsche.