Talk that I hear these days centers on the rigamarole over funeral.
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CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 08:15 PM)
The film refused to give into the clich good guy gets the gal, Or best looking guy/Mr sensitive wins out with the airhead babe falling in love with him.
I read that scriptwriter Graham Greene originally had Holly get the girl, that Selznick overruled him, and that Greene admitted in the end that Selznick was right.
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lamont-hard — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 09:05 PM)
They spoke of the bad penicillin but I am not sure children died from it. What was actually said on this, can you remember? I think it could be we are thinking kids may have died but it could be that may never have happened.
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jlmcafee — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 09:51 AM)
I watched this movie for the first time the other day. There is a scene where Maj. Calloway is taking Martins to the airport. Calloway says he has a stop to make on the way and wants Martins to join him. They end up at a children's hospital and as they are walking among the beds/cribs we see a nurse cleaning one out and dropping a teddy bear into a chair. Calloway then says, "They gave it some of Lime's penicillin. Terrible pity isn't it." They never explicitly say children died but it was heavily implied.
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mike-848 — 10 years ago(September 26, 2015 05:31 PM)
Yeah. Same thing with the film HUD. Paul Newman was shocked that so many people took to his character who was a scoundrel. But the character Hud had charm and Newman's acting brought this out.
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fcalderp — 10 years ago(February 20, 2016 05:45 PM)
I've red some of your comments and believe you can help me with this: When Joseph Cotton meets Alida Vali backstage, she tells him that Harry was killed by his chauffer, and that he was a good chauffer and acquitted at the hearing! Preposterous. I don't know what this scene is doing in the movie. Had Harry been killed by his chauffer (driving a truck?), the chauffer would have been the Third Man (obviously). Besides, he would have been the key-man in the mystery. But Cotton does not make any efforts to approach him. The chauffer is not mentioned in the rest of the film by anyone else. The witnesses describe the accident as a hit-and-run affair. Besides, they talk about a truck, why would Harry's chauffer be driving a truck? There is no reason for Alida to lie (she seems to know nothing about Harry's dealings or his "death"). However, I don't think anybody has noticed this discrepancy in the picture. It bothers me every time I see this movie (and I've seen it about 20 times so far) that, otherwise, is a perfect movie. I would appreciate your opinion about this.
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fcalderp — 9 years ago(June 12, 2016 02:17 PM)
I agree with you vilafire, I believe it's a flaw in the screenplay (that nobody seems to notice). Why was Harry's chauffer driving a truck? If he was innocent, what did he see? How come Holy never tried to contact him? If the driver of the truck was Harry's chauffer, he would have been "the third man." The rest of the plot develops as if there was no chauffer at all. I don't think there was a novel before the screenplay.
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CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 08:20 PM)
I think these are supposed to be some of the inconsistencies that arouse Holly's suspicion. Somebody says it was a truck, somebody says a car. Anna said it was the chaffeur, everybody else says that it was a hit and run. The conspirators just didn't get their stories straight.
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Deluge69-663-991830 — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 03:37 PM)
Cynically proves how many will fall for the old sappy charm, not realizing that he'd eventually pull his crap on them as well.
He was a cold and snide child murderer who chose to overlook what he had done.
We need more charm boys like that, oozing with all that crummy charisma.
More like HARRY SLIME.
The script simply eliminated the 'S' before Lime.
Great cinematography and atmosphere, but too slow and depressing until the better ending. Only I was glad that Slime got what was coming to him. His invincibility was only temporary.
Otherwise, not bad but I don't revere it as "the greatest" (What really is?)
And that cloying zither had to go. In the opening credits you might have thought that this was to be some comedy.