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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