THE THIRD MAN theme - Anton Karas (HQ + ending)

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demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, [and] was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music." ... Film-noir zither post-second-world-war Vienna Harry-Lime forged-passport penicillin ferris-wheel Joseph-Cotten Alida-Valli Orson-Welles Trevor-Howard Bernard-Lee Paul-Hörbiger Ernst-Deutsch Siegfried-Breuer ...