{"id":4513,"date":"2025-10-04T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:21:04","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-the-third-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/04\/retro-movie-adventures-the-third-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: The Third Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-2.jpg\" alt=\"Silhouette of a man in a sewer tunnel from The Third Man.\" class=\"wp-image-4516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Cotten in The Third Man.\" class=\"wp-image-4515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-1-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-third-man-1-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After three movies that went from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/monsterdon-movie-adventures-the-food-of-the-gods\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">so bad it&#8217;s good<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-judge-priest-and-tom-brown\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">competent but built on racism<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/03\/walk-of-fame-adventures-ten-laps-to-go-and-tom-moore\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just plain bad<\/a>, it was great to see a movie this good. I do wish the score wasn&#8217;t &#8220;all zither all the time,&#8221; though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, boy! A fake poster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Third-Man-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Third Man mimicking the poster for The Planet of the Apes.\" class=\"wp-image-4514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Third-Man-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Third-Man-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Third-Man-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Third-Man.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">No one makes a monkey out of Joseph Cotten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bruce Dickinson voice) A gotta be honest&#8230; I coulda used more zither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[350,78,10],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-fake-posters","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}