"The Third Man" (1949)

The description calls this a Film Noir. Orson Welles, actor. Adaptation from a novel. Black and white. I can see why this made the Criterion Collection. Cinematography Oscar--tilted camera angles, black and white photogenicness of war hit Vienna. The music puzzles me most--zither only--reminds me of something that should be for a comedy set in the Carribean. Musically puts this movie into the same class as "Convoy", meaning lots of puzzling "why this choice?" Wasn't as bad as the first film noir I saw. One actor you see early reminds me of the Grinch--face and smile; it was kind of distracting. SPOILER ALERT: Worth watching to get the context of this quote: "After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."