The Third Man trivia
The Third Man Mini Quiz
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In The Third Man, Orson Welles contrasts Italy's bloody Borgias to 500 years of Swiss peace, which he quips produced what invention?
Orson Welles famously wrote this cynical dialogue himself, though his quip is historically inaccurate since the cuckoo clock was actually invented in Germany's Black Forest.
Fitting its Viennese setting, the 1949 noir film The Third Man features an iconic theme plucked on what lap-resting string instrument?
Director Carol Reed discovered zither player Anton Karas performing in a local wine garden, and his plucked instrumental theme became a massive international hit.
Harry Lime, the central villain in the film The Third Man, makes his illicit fortune by doing what?
Penicillin was a heavily rationed wonder drug in post-WWII Vienna, making the deadly black market racketeering depicted in the film a grim historical reality.
Carol Reed, the film's director, maintains visual unease in The Third Man by doing what?
This disorienting technique, known as a Dutch angle, is used extensively to visually reflect the moral corruption and psychological decay of a divided, post-war Vienna.
Antagonist Harry Lime navigates Vienna's sewers in the film The Third Man to bypass what barrier?
Post-WWII Vienna was divided into four Allied occupation zones. Lime used the sewers to evade checkpoints and smuggle diluted penicillin across the city undetected.