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The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech

This is Carol Reed’s own shooting script, featuring his hand-written notes and showing Graham Greene’s original scene on the ferris wheel before Orson Welles’s improvised addition of the famous ‘cuckoo clock’ speech.

By Nathalie Morris

The annotated shooting script for The Third Man, minus the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech
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