Film · London Films · 1949
Pass it on
The Third Man
66Worth an evening.
He's charming right up to the penicillin he watered down for children.
The review
An American who writes cheap Westerns comes to postwar Vienna because a friend offered him a job. The friend is dead. Then he isn't. I knew that turn and it still sat wrong, because the man is charming and a woman loved him.
He's been diluting penicillin and harming children. Adult night only. I wouldn't put this on where a kid can enjoy the charm and miss the rest. The welcome is how he stays in the room. The children are the fact that has to outrank it. If somebody pleasant near you is thinning a thing people need, don't file the damage under personality.
Journal
Keep The Third Man in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
He writes cheap Westerns; the friend's work is diluted penicillin.
- 3Household
A woman loved him, and no child in the story is a son or daughter at home.
- 7Piety
Charm does not stop the harm, so a friend has to choose the children.
- 7Courage
Turning on the charming friend costs the bond that brought him to Vienna.
- 8Republic
Vienna's children are owed real penicillin, not cover for a friend's racket.
- 7Temperance
He stays charming while the penicillin he dilutes is harming children.
- 9Truth
The friend is dead, then not dead, and harmed children pay for the lie.
- 6Stewardship
What's left is harmed children and a woman who loved the man who did it.
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