Totally enjoyable--just like the movie was. (Some movies have great acting, some great screenplays, some great cinematography, some great editing, some memorable quotes, some great soundtracks. And a few (very few!) have ... it ... all. "The Third Man" was one.) Thanks for the upload!
There's also a really good radio adaptation of Greene's The Fallen Idol that you might find on youtube somewhere (I don't think I've uploaded it myself).
Brilliant, it is nearly as good as the film, I know imagination is great, but I did miss, Mr Wells, Cotten, Howard, and of course, Mr Lee. Thank you so much. Colin. The UK.
Great adaptation. To be strictly accurate, The Third Man was never a novel as such. Greene wrote a short novella in preparation for writing his screenplay, and that was subsequently published, but Greene himself said that the film was the most perfect version - it was conceived from the first as a film, rather than being a filmed adaptation of a novel.
Thank you; I was familiar with a story that Greene was working on the novel at at the same time as the film was being made, but perhaps I misconstrued what I heard - do you know if that was correct? Though of course I wouldn't disagree with him about the film's pre-eminence..!
@@mysteriousmagpie From Greene's preface to The Third Man book: 'To me it is almost impossible to write a film play without first writing a story... The Third Man, therefore, had to start as a story before those apparently interminable transformations from one treatment to another. On those treatments [director] Carol Reed and I worked closely together... The Third Man was never intended to be more than the raw material for a picture... The film, in fact, is better than the story because it is in this case the finished state of the story.' I think the novella was finished before the screenplay was written and filming started, but I could be mistaken.
This is superb
Totally enjoyable--just like the movie was. (Some movies have great acting, some great screenplays, some great cinematography, some great editing, some memorable quotes, some great soundtracks. And a few (very few!) have ... it ... all. "The Third Man" was one.) Thanks for the upload!
There's also a really good radio adaptation of Greene's The Fallen Idol that you might find on youtube somewhere (I don't think I've uploaded it myself).
@@mysteriousmagpie Will find--thanks!
@christinemartin33 Totally agree with your comments about the film.
Brilliant. Great pictures, ed bishop is outstanding.
Around the same time he recorded a whole series of Raymond Chandler dramas for BBC radio - needless to say his voice is perfect for Marlowe...
Brilliant, it is nearly as good as the film, I know imagination is great, but I did miss, Mr Wells,
Cotten, Howard, and of course, Mr Lee. Thank you so much. Colin. The UK.
Great adaptation. To be strictly accurate, The Third Man was never a novel as such. Greene wrote a short novella in preparation for writing his screenplay, and that was subsequently published, but Greene himself said that the film was the most perfect version - it was conceived from the first as a film, rather than being a filmed adaptation of a novel.
Thank you; I was familiar with a story that Greene was working on the novel at at the same time as the film was being made, but perhaps I misconstrued what I heard - do you know if that was correct? Though of course I wouldn't disagree with him about the film's pre-eminence..!
@@mysteriousmagpie From Greene's preface to The Third Man book: 'To me it is almost impossible to write a film play without first writing a story... The Third Man, therefore, had to start as a story before those apparently interminable transformations from one treatment to another. On those treatments [director] Carol Reed and I worked closely together... The Third Man was never intended to be more than the raw material for a picture... The film, in fact, is better than the story because it is in this case the finished state of the story.' I think the novella was finished before the screenplay was written and filming started, but I could be mistaken.