Talk:The Third Man

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A new version?

I saw this film on TV today in which there was no zither music, and the first appearance of Lime was anticipated by showing his disembodied face earlier on. What has happened? Seadowns (talk) 22:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seadowns – gosh. Literally NO zither music in the entire film? I cannot imagine this! Was the film otherwise as you would expect, ignoring the early Lime appearance you mention? I am quite baffled. A film expert – which I am not – might know where to look for alternative versions ... cheers DBaK (talk) 09:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cast

See Martin Miller (actor) for his role as head waiter. Spicemix (talk) 22:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Standardization of names

Why is the only major female character referred to by her first name when all the male characters are referred to by their last names. This should be standardized in some way. I don't know what the best practice is for it as I don't usually fix wiki articles. However, this one just stuck out to me. 2601:644:4800:5AE0:ACDF:E864:CDF1:4B8D (talk) 07:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguay Round Agreements Act

The link for "Uruguay Round Agreements Act" goes to an article that does not mention any such act. Should we remove the link? LordApofisu (talk) 14:29, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The linked article's title, "Uruguay Round Agreements Act", seems to mention it. Masato.harada (talk) 14:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My phone seems to have registered me as clicking on the Berne Convention in that article without the article itself ever appearing on my screen.LordApofisu (talk) 21:31, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

British? American?...

Ii seems that the London Film Productions was a UK company, a producer working for the film, Selznik, was American. Most sources seem to say the film is British; AFI claims it as American, I invite any third parties to weigh in.Halbared (talk) 00:55, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The BFI also lists both the UK and US as production countries, not just the AFI. Even if only one production company is credited for the film, we still go by what is stated by reliable sources. snapsnap ^(talk) 01:09, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article includes the statements that: "In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. In 2011, a poll for Time Out ranked it the second-best British film ever." --Blurryman (talk) 01:48, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A producer and where their citizenship is, does not dictate the nationality of a film by any standard I'm familiar with. If I'm wrong, please point this out.

From other sources The Criterion Collection lists it as UK (here), The BFI here notes there is an American print of the film, but BFI also identifies itas UK only. So I'm not sure where this other BFI sources comes from. I only use the Collections, which has more detail. BIFI.fr (which is hosted by The French Cinematheque, only states Great Britain as the country). Trying to look at Selznik's relationship to the film, the BFI states " was consulted about the script in the summer of 1948 and coordinated the US release in 1950." (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/591496/index.html here) While this other BFI source states Selznik "co-financed the film with Korda". (here) That said, the only film production company is London Films. Without more detail, which we rarely get in discussions of films nationality, I'm leaning towards just UK, but am willing to see what others dig up. While it does appear there is a different American version where Korda made some changes, this seems a bit iffy in terms of the country of production. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:37, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Being included on lists of the best British films doesn't necessarily makes this an exclusively British film (two other films included on BFI's list, Lawrence of Arabia and Don't Look Now, are co-productions with the US and Italy, respectively). What determines the nationality of a film is its production company (or companies), though we should also consider what is supported by reliable sources.

While the current BFI site only lists the UK, the older BFI site (which is currently used as a source) also lists the US, as does BFI's Screenonline. I'm not sure there are other sources that list both the UK and the US, and it seems that most sources (such as Variety, Cineuropa and Lumiere) only list the UK. My personal guess is that the BFI and the AFI list the US as one of the production countries because one of the producers is American. snapsnap ^(talk) 17:25, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]