Friday, March 29, 2019

Dots to cuckoos


That clip I gave you yesterday from The Third Man moves on to another choice line from Harry Lime.

Lime actually gets all the best lines; for being a pulp western writer, Holly Martins does not have much of a way with words. Joseph Cotton is exactly the guy to deliver the background noise; he’s always struck me as unprepossessing in the extreme.

Anyway, Lime here encapsulates European history in a couple of sentences:


The way Orson Welles spits out “cuckoo clock” has always cracked me up.



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