Sneak out the other way and go back to your theater.
What are you going to do? - l wish l knew.
Be sensible. Tell Major Calloway.
[ Movie Soundtrack Continues ]...
...[ Speaking German ]...
...[ Horn Honking ]...
Get me Major Callaghan on the phone. - Oh, Mr. Martins.
lt's very urgent. Just get him on the telephone.
No, l don't know his number. - l'll look it up for you.
ls there a car here? - Of course.
[ Speaking German ] - Never mind about the number.
Take me to the headquarters--
Hold on. l haven't even told you where to take me yet.
[ Speaking German ] - [ Tires Screeching ]...
Driver. Driver. - [ Tires Screeching ]...
Slow down. - [ Horn Honking ]
Have you got orders to kill me?
[ Horn Honks, Tires Screeching ]...
...[ Tires Skidding ]...
...[ Speaking German ]
Ah, ah, ah. Ah, Mr. Martins. What a relief to see you.
l was beginning to think something had happened to you.
Everything's ready for you. l was frantic in case you hadn't got...
...my message at the hotel.
Porters out here are so unreliable.
We're all set for a wonderful meeting.
You'll find the audience most appreciative.
Oh, let me take your coat. l've got it.
There'll be refreshments afterwards. Come along. Follow me.
Well, here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
Would you look after those? Thank you.
Would you like to sit there? That's right.
l have much pleasure in introducing Mr. Holly Martins from the other side.
[ Applause ]
Well-- [ Clears Throat ]
Bring the car and anyone else who would like to come.
Don't be long. Hmm.
Yeah, well, l-- l suppose that is what l meant to say.
Of course, of course.
Do you believe, Mr. Martins, in the stream of consciousness?
Stream of consciousness? Well, uh-- Well, uh--...
Well, uh-- - What author...
Grey. - Grey? What Grey?
Zane Grey. - That's Mr. Martins'
We know perfectly well Zane Grey wrote what we call westerns.
Cowboys and bandits.
[ Man ] Mr. James Joyce-- Now, where would you put him?
Oh, uh, would you mind repeating that question?
l said, where would you put Mr. James Joyce?
ln what category?
Can l ask, is Mr. Martins engaged on a new book?
Yes. lt's called The Third Man.
A novel, Mr. Martins? - lt's a murder story.
l've just started it. lt's based on fact.
Why, it's Mr. Popescu. Oh, very great pleasure to see you here.
As you know, Mr. Popescu is a very great supporter
Are you a slow writer, Mr. Martins?
Not when l get interested.
l'd say you were doing something pretty dangerous this time.
Yeah? - Mixing fact and fiction.
Should l make it all fact? - Why, no, Mr. Martins.
l'd say stick to fiction. Straight fiction.
l'm too far along with the book, Mr. Popescu.
Haven't you ever scrapped a book, Mr. Martins?
Pity.
[ Chattering ln German ]
Ladies and gentlemen, if there are no more questions,
l think l can call the meeting officially closed.
That's him.
[ Clattering, Moaning ]
Who's there? Who is it? Who is it?
[ Moaning Continues ]...
...lt's all right. lt's all right.
[ Squawking ]...
...[ Squawking Continues ] - [ Footsteps Approaching ]...
...[ Train Whistle Blows ]...
...l told you to go away, Martins.
This isn't Santa Fe, l'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy.
You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna.
Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.
Put down drunk and disorderly too. - l have.
What's the matter with your hand? - Parrot bit me.
Oh, stop behaving like a fool, Martins.
l'm only a little fool. l'm an amateur at it. You're a professional.
You've been shaking your cap and bells all over town.
Get me the Harry Lime file, and get Mr. Martins a whiskey.
l don't need your drinks, Calloway.
You will. l don't want another murder in this case,
so you're going to hear the facts.
You haven't told me a single one yet.
Have you ever heard of penicillin?
Well?
ln Vienna, there hasn't been enough penicillin to go around.
So a nice trade started here:
Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals,
diluting it to make it go further, and selling it to patients.
Do you see what that means?
Are you too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a murder?
These were murders.
Men with gangrened legs,
women in childbirth, and there were children too.
They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis.
The lucky children died.
The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.
That was the racket Harry Lime organized.
Calloway, you haven't shown me one shred of evidence.
We're just coming to that. Paine, magic lantern show.
Very good, sir.
[ Calloway ] Paine's one of your devoted readers.
He's promised to lend me one of your books. Which one is it, Paine?
The Lone Rider of Santa Fe, sir.
That's right. - l'd like to visit Texas one day, sir.
Come on, show me what you've got to show.
Yes, sir.
Paine, Paine, Paine.
l got them muddled. lt's the new lot that's just come in for Mr. Crabbin.
See this man here? A fellow called Harbin,
a medical orderly at the General Hospital.
He worked for Lime and helped to steal the stuff from the laboratories.
We forced him to give information to us which led us as far as Kurtz and Lime.
But we didn't arrest them, as it might have spoiled our...
Next, Paine. - l'd like a word...
So would l. - Well, bring him in.
l can't. He disappeared a week ago.
This is more like a mortuary than police headquarters.
We have better witnesses. Look here.
How could he have done it?
Seventy pounds a tube.
Go back to the hotel, and do keep out of trouble.
l'll try and fix things with the Austrian police.
but l can't be responsible for you on the streets.
l'm not asking you to. - l'm sorry, Martins.
l'm sorry too.
You still got that airplane ticket on you?
We'll send one across to your hotel in the morning.
Thank you. Excuse me.
Get me Austrian Police Headquarters.
Can l have that woman's passport?
You know, the Anna Schmidt one.
Oh... we're not going to pick her up for that, are we?
What can we do? We have our instructions.
?? [ Jazz ]...
...[ Knocking At Door ] - [ Speaking German ]...
...[ Holly ] lt's me.
lt's me.
Hello.
What is it? What's happened to you?
Just came to see you.
Come in. l thought you were going to keep away. Are the police after you?
l don't know.
You're drunk, aren't you? - A bit. l'm sorry.
But l did want to say good-bye before l pushed off.
l'm going back home. - Why?
lt's what you've always wanted-- all of you.
Kitty? Here, kitty.
Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.
Don't you want to play, kitty? Come on. Sleepy? Sleepy kitty?
Not very sociable, is he? - No, he only liked Harry.
What made you decide so suddenly? - l, l brought you these.
They, they got a little wet.
What happened to your hand? - A parrot--...
Let it go. - Have you seen Calloway?
lmagine a parrot nipping a man? - Have you?
lt's-- Oh, l, l--...
...l've been saying good-bye all over, you know.
He told you, didn't he? - Told me?
About Harry. - Do you know?
l've seen Major Calloway today.
[ Meows ]
He is better dead.
l knew he was mixed-up, but not like that.
l knew him for 20 years-- at least, l thought l knew him.
Suppose he was laughing at fools like us all the time?
He liked to laugh. - Seventy pounds a tube.
He wanted me to write for his great medical charity.
l'll put these flowers in the water.
Perhaps l could have raised the price to 80 pounds for him.
Oh, please. For heaven's sake, stop making him in your image.
Harry was real. He wasn't just your friend and my lover.
He was Harry. - Well, don't preach wisdom to me.
You talk about him as if he had occasional bad manners.
No. l don't know. l'm just a hack writer who drinks too much...
...and falls in love with girls.
You. - Me?
Don't be such a fool. Of course.
lf you'd rung me up and asked me were you fair or dark...
...or had a moustache, l wouldn't have known.
Oh, l am leaving Vienna.
l don't care whether Henry was murdered by Kurtz or Popescu...
...or the third man or--
Whoever killed him, there was some sort of... justice.
Maybe l would've killed him myself.
A person doesn't change because you find out more.
Look. l've got a splitting headache, and you stand there...
...l-l hate it.
That's the first time l ever saw you laugh.
Do it again.
There isn't enough for two laughs.
l'd make comic faces...
...and stand on my head and grin at you between my legs...
...and tell all sorts of jokes.
l wouldn't stand a chance, would l?
Well...
...you did tell me l ought to find myself a girl.
[ Cat Meowing ]...
...[ Man ] What kind of a spy do you think you are, satchel foot?
What are you tailing me for?
Cat got your tongue?
Come on out.
Come out, come out, whoever you are.
Step out in the light and let's have a look at ya.
Who's your boss? - [ Woman Speaking German ]
Harry.
[ Speaking German ]...
...[ Car Horn Honks ]...
...[ Footsteps Running Away ]...
...[ Holly ] Harry.
l followed his shadow...
...until, suddenly--...
Well? - This is where he vanished.
l see. - l suppose you don't believe me.
No. - Look. l tell you--...
You don't think l'm blind, do you? - Yes.
Where were you when you saw him first? - Fifty yards right down there.
Which side of the road? - l was on that side.
And there are no turnings on either side.
l tell you, l heard him running ahead of me.
And then he vanished out there, l suppose, with a puff of smoke...
...lt wasn't the German gin.
[ Low Roaring ]
Well, what's this? Where are we?
lt's the main sewer.
Runs right into the blue Danube. Smells sweet, doesn't it?
We should have dug deeper than a grave.
[ Creaking ]...
...[ Creaking Continues ]...
...[ Speaking German ]...
...[ German ]...
...[ Creaking Continues ]
You knew him, Major?
Hmm. Yes.
Yes. Joseph Harbin.
Medical orderly at the General Hospital.
He used to work for Harry Lime. - Joseph Harbin?
Yes. He's the man l told you was missing.
Next time we'll have a foolproof coffin.
[ Speaking Russian ]...
...[ Speaking German ]...
...[ Footsteps Approaching ]...
...[ Knock At Door ]...
...[ Man Speaking German ] - [ Speaking German ]...
...[ German Continues ]...
Fraulein Schmidt? - Ja.
[ Speaking German ]...
...[ Woman Speaking German ]...
...[ Continues Complaining ln German ]...
Where are you taking me? - lnternational Police Headquarters,
[ German ]...
...l'm sorry, miss. lt's orders. We can't go against the protocol.
l don't even know what protocol means. - Neither do l, miss.
Mademoiselle, your lipstick.
Thank you.
Anna, what's happened to you? - All right. Keep out of this.
Listen, l've got to talk to you. l've just seen a dead man walking.
All right, chum. Get back. - l saw him buried.
But now l've seen him alive.
Just a minute. Bring her in here.
You stay out here.
Come in, Miss Schmidt. Now then, Miss Schmidt.
l'm not interested in your forged papers. That's purely a Russian case.
When did you last see Lime? - Two weeks ago.
l want the truth, Miss Schmidt. We know he's alive.
lt is true, then. - Joseph Harbin's body
What did you say? l'm sorry.
l said another man was buried in his place.
Where's Harry?
That's what we want to find out.
l'm sorry. l don't seem able to understand anything you say. l--
He is alive.
Now this minute, he is doing something.
Miss Schmidt, we know he's somewhere across the canal in the Russian sector.
You may as well help us. ln a few minutes.
Colonel Brodsky will be questioning you about your papers.
Tell me where Lime is. - l don't know.
lf you help me, l am prepared to help you.
Martins always said you were a fool.
Vienna is a closed city, Miss Schmidt. He can't get away. Right.
Poor Harry.
l wish he was dead.
He would be safe from all of you, then.
Why, that's you. Come up.
Winkel, look who is here.
l want to speak to you, Kurtz.
Of course. Come up. - l'll wait here.
l don't understand. - l want to talk to Harry.
Are you mad? - All right. l'm mad.
l've seen a ghost. You tell Harry l want to see him.
Be reasonable. Come up and talk.
No, thank you. l like the open.
Tell him l'll wait by that wheel there.
Or do ghosts only rise by night, Dr. Winkel?
You got an opinion on that?
Hello, old man. How are you? - Hello, Harry.
Well, well, they seem to be giving you quite some busy time.
Well, listen. l want to talk to you. - Hmm, yes?
Talk to me? Well, of course. Come on.
Kids used to ride this thing a lot in the old days.
But they haven't the money now, poor devils.
Listen, Harry. l didn't believe that--...
...lt's good to see you, Holly. - l was at your funeral.
That was pretty smart, wasn't it?
Oh, the same old indigestion, Holly.
These are the only things that help, these tablets.
These are the last. Can't get 'em anywhere in Europe anymore.
Do you know what's happened to your girl?
She's been arrested. - Tough, very tough,
They won't hurt her. - They're handing her over
What can l do, old man? l'm dead, aren't l?
You can help some. - Holly,
exactly who did you tell about me, hmm?
l told the police. - Unwise, Holly.
And Anna. - Unwise.
Did the, uh, police believe you?
You don't care anything at all about Anna, do you?
[ Chuckling ] l've got quite a lot on my mind.
You wouldn't do anything. - What do you want me to do?
You can get somebody else-- - Do you expect me to give myself up?
Why not? - lt's a far better thing that l do...
...with the old limelight than follow the curtain--
No. You and l aren't heroes. The world doesn't make any heroes--...
You've got plenty of contacts. - Outside of your stories.
l've got to be so careful.
l'm only safe in the Russian zone. l'm only safe as long as they can use me.
As long as they can use you? - l wish l could get rid of this thing.
So that's how they found out about Anna. You told them, didn't you?
Don't try to be a policeman, old man.
What do you expect me to be? Part of your--
You can have any part as long as you don't interfere.
Yes, l remember when they raided the gambling joint, you knew a safe way out.
Sure. - Yeah, safe for you. Not safe for me.
Old man, you never should have gone to the police, you know.
You ought to leave this thing alone.
Have you ever seen any of your victims?
You know, l never feel comfortable on these sort of things.
Victims? Don't be melodramatic.
Tell me.
Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?
lf l offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped,
would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money?
Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spend?
Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax--...
...the only way you can save money nowadays.
A lot of good your money will do you in jail.
There's no proof against me,
besides you.
l should be pretty easy to get rid of.
Pretty easy. - l wouldn't be too sure.
l carry a gun.
l don't think they'd look for a bullet wound after you hit that ground.
They dug up your coffin.
And found Harbin?
Mm-hmm.
Pity. [ Chuckles ]
Holly, what fools we are talking to each other this way,
as though l'd do anything to you or you to me.
You're just a little mixed-up about things in general.
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings.
Governments don't. Why should we?
They talk about the people and the proletariat. l talk...
...lt's the same thing. They have their five-year plans, and so have l.
You used to believe in God.
l still do believe in God, old man.
l believe in God and mercy and all that.
But the dead are happier dead.
They don't miss much here, poor devils.
What do you believe in?
Oh, if we ever get Anna out of this mess, be kind to her.
l think you'll find she's worth it.
l wish l'd asked you to bring me some of these tablets from home.
Holly, l'd like to cut you in, old man.
There's nobody left in Vienna l can really trust, and we've
When you make up your mind, send me a message.
And when we do meet, old man, it's you l want to see,
not the police.
Remember that, won't you?
[ Chuckling ] And don't be so gloomy. After all, it's not that awful.
Remember what the fella said:
ln ltaly, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare.
But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
ln Switzerland, they had brotherly love.
They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly.
But look here, Martins. You can always arrange to meet him at,
at some little cafe here in the international zone.
lt would never work. - We'll never get him
Calloway, you expect too much.
Oh, l know he deserves to hang. You've proved your stuff,
but 20 years is a long time.
Don't ask me to tie the rope.
Okay. Forget it.
Busy, Major? - What is it, Brodsky?
We have identified the girl. Here is her report.
[ Calloway ] l've questioned her. We've got nothing against her.
We shall apply for her at the Four Power meeting tomorrow.
She has no right to be here.
l've asked your people to help with Lime.
That's a different case. lt is being looked into.
So long, Major. - [ Door Closes ]...
...[ Calloway ] ln the last war, a general would hang
He got to know him that way.
l'm beginning to know Lime.
l think this would've worked, with your help.
What price would you pay?
Name it.
[ Train Whistle Blowing,
Man Speaking German Over Loudspeaker ]...
...[ German Continues ]
Here we are. You'll be all right here, miss.
l don't understand Major Calloway. l--...
...l expect he's got a soft spot for you, miss.
Don't you worry, miss. You're well out of things.
There we are, miss.
Thank you. You've been so kind. - Well, l'll be saying good night.
Good night, miss. - Good-bye.
[ Man Speaking German Over Loudspeaker ]...
...[ Train Whistle Blows ]...
Are you going too? - Oh.
What are you doing here? - l wanted to see you off.
See me off? From here?
Oh, l watched you onto the train, uh-- No harm in that, is there?
How did you know l'd be here?
l heard something about it at police headquarters.
Have you been seeing Major Calloway again?
Of course not. l don't live in his pocket.
Harry, what is it?
For heaven sakes, stop calling me Harry.
[ Man On Loudspeaker, lndistinct ] - Let's go.
What's on your mind? Why did you hide here?
Hide? Can't a fellow have a drink? Here. lt'll be cold on that train.
l shall be all right. - You send me a wire as soon as you are.
What's going to happen? Where is Harry?
How do you know? - Well, l saw him today.
How is he? - He can look after himself.
Did he say anything about me? Tell me.
ls something wrong? Did you tell Calloway about Harry?
Why should he help me? The Russians will make trouble for him.
That's his headache. Oh, Anna. - His? Why are you lying?
We're getting you out of here, aren't we?
You'd--
Anna, don't you recognize a good turn when you see one?
You have seen Calloway? What are you two doing?
Well, they, they asked me to help take him.
l'm helping.
Poor Harry. - Poor Harry.
Poor Harry... wouldn't even lift a finger to help you.
Oh, you've got your precious honesty and don't want anything else.
You still want him.
l don't want him anymore.
l don't want to see him, hear him, but he's still a part of me. That's a fact.
l couldn't do a thing to harm him.
[ Train Whistle Blowing ]...
...[ Train Departing ]
Oh, Anna, why do we always have to quarrel?
lf you want to sell your services, l'm not willing to be the price.
l loved him. You loved him.
What good have we done him... for love?
Look at yourself.
They have a name for faces like that.
Calloway. - Come in here. There isn't much time.
l want to get a plane out of here tonight.
So she talked you out of it. - Gave me these.
A girl of spirit.
She's right. lt is none of my business.
lt won't make any difference in the long run. l'll get him.
Well, l won't have helped. - That'll be a fine boast to make.
Well, l always wanted you to catch that plane, didn't l?
l'd better see if there's anyone still at the terminus.
Mind if l drop off somewhere on the way?
l've got an appointment. lt won't take five minutes.
Why don't you come in too? You're a writer. lt might interest you.
This is the biggest children's hospital in Vienna.
All the kids in here are the result of Lime's penicillin racket.
He'd had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin.
Terrible pity, isn't it?
Paine lent me one of your books. Oklahoma Kid, l think it was.
l read a bit of it. Looks as if it's gonna be pretty good.
What made you take up this sort of thing? Been doing it for long?
All right, Calloway. You win. - l never knew there were...
...l said you win. - Win what?
l'll be your... dumb decoy duck.
Psst.
Paine.
Look, sir.
How much longer are you going to sit here?
Shall l go over there, sir?
No. No, leave them for a while.
[ Old Man ] Mein Herr, Ballon?
Nein, danke. Nein.
Ballon? - [ Speaking German ]...
...[ German Continues ] Go on. Hop it, scarper.
Ballon, mein Herr? - [ German Continues ]
All right, all right. Only one. Go on, scarper.
You should have gone. How did you know l was here, anyway?
From Kurtz. They have just been arrested.
But Harry won't come. He's not a fool.
Yes, Paine. Slip over there. See what she's up to.
[ Anna ] Don't tell me you are doing...
What's your price this time? - No price, Anna.
Honest, sensible, sober,
harmless Holly Martins.
Holly. What a silly name.
You must feel very proud to be a police informer.
Harry, get away. The police are outside.
Quick. - Anna.
[ Door Opens ]
Sir, the back.
[ Whistles Blowing ]...
...[ Whistle Blowing Continues ] - [ Dogs Barking ]...
...[ Siren Wailing ]...
...[ Wailing Continues ]
All right.
[ Gunshots ]...
...[ Calloway ] Martins, get back.
[ Speaking German ]...
...[ German Continues ]...
...[ German ]...
...[ Man Shouts ]...
...[ Shouting ln German ]...
...[ Sirens Wailing ]...
...[ Dogs Barking ]...
...[ German Continues ]...
...[ Footsteps Echoing ]...
...[ Footsteps Continue ] - [ German ]...
...[ German Continues ] - [ Whistles Blowing ]...
...[ Speaking German ]...
...[ Footsteps Approaching ]...
...[ German Continues ]...
...[ Barking ] - [ Shouts ln German ]...
...[ German Continues ]
Harry.
ls that you? - You're through.
Come out. You haven't got a chance this way.
What do you want? - You might as well give up.
Mr. Martins, sir, get back, get back.
Keep back, sir. Come back. Come back, sir.
[ Grunts ]
Martins. Martins.
Be careful, Martins.
Don't take any chances. lf you see him, shoot.
[ Gunshot ]...
...[ Speaking German ]
What time is it?
[ Engine Starts ] - 2:30.
l'll have to step on it if you're going to catch that plane.
Calloway, can't you do something about Anna?
l'll do what l can, if she'll let me.
Wait a minute. Let me out. - Well, there's not much time.
One can't just leave. Please.
Be sensible, Martins.
l haven't got a sensible name, Calloway.