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Post by Cartman on Jun 23, 2018 9:18:08 GMT
I’ve had to put this in the non decade specific section as it’s pre 60s, it’s one of my all time favourite films. Again, the black and white photography, some of which was in a distorted expressionist style, and the outstanding location, bomb damaged Vienna just after the war makes it.
It captures the atmosphere of early post war Europe superbly, in the period between the end of World War 2 and the beginnings of the Cold War, The music score, by Anton Karas is brilliant as are some of the performances by Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. An early appearance by the guy who was M in the early Bond films too.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 23, 2018 18:39:39 GMT
Been a while since I've watched it, magnificently photographed by Robert Krasker who also did Odd Man Out with Carol Reed, another classic. Trevor Howard is one of my favourites, a truthful actor with one of the greatest voices in cinema.
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Post by Cartman on Jun 23, 2018 19:26:35 GMT
The first time I saw this film was làte one Friday night on BBC sometime in the mid 70s and I found it compelling then
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Post by The Saint on Jun 25, 2018 7:02:50 GMT
I have never seen this film, is it readily available on DVD?
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 25, 2018 7:19:17 GMT
Yes I've had a DVD of this film for years Saint. It is very well regarded Trevor Howard is great in the role of a British Major in post war Vienna. Oliver Reed's uncle Carol Reed directed it.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 12, 2022 20:45:37 GMT
I rewatched this last night as it was on a few weeks back and I recorded it and it really is an outstandingly good film, the location filming is some of the best I have ever seen and like Sweeney era London, and Kojak era New York, Vienna just after the war was a bit shabby and battered, but incredibly charachterful.
I checked it out on Reel Streets afterwards, and the current (2018/9) photos show very little difference physically to the stills from the film in 1948/9, apart from the fact that the buildings have been painted in pretty colours and cleaned up and the streets are full of Audis and BMWs.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 13, 2022 11:30:50 GMT
All time classic
How about that Zither?
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Post by Cartman on Sept 13, 2022 16:45:27 GMT
Anton Karas wrote and performed the music, which fitted the film perfectly. Apparently, Carol Reed, the director, just happened across him playing his zither, and asked him to compose the theme tune, and he had never written any music at all before this
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 13, 2022 16:46:28 GMT
Anton Karas wrote and performed the music, which fitted the film perfectly. Apparently, Carol Reed, the director, just happened across him playing his zither, and asked him to compose the theme tune, and he had never written any music at all before this It still sounds great
I have an Anton Karas with it on - amongst many other top zither tunes
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