"The Third Man" may be the most perfect picture in every category ... script, acting, cinematography, direction, soundtrack ... that has ever been made, IMHO. I'm glad to see another fan of it here.
"After all, it’s not that awful — you know what the fellow said…In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce…? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly."
An amazing movie. I saw it 30 years ago and still remember it.