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Tune your zithers and wind up your cuckoo clocks, it's our 33rd episode, so naturally time for a PF Series chat about Carol Reed's three-themed thriller The Third Man. Big fans and Playing Favorites regulars Michael Zwiauer, Jacob Baird, Steven Beller, and Robert Tomkin join me to discuss what some call the greatest British film of all time, Michael calls "almost clinically perfect,” and Robert has called, on-pod, his favorite film.



Listen in for a ripping discussion of this seminal 1949 Vienna-set noir, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and other great talents. Our chat answers or addresses a host of film-related and more existentially ponderous questions as:

• Is Holly Martins really Graham Greene?
• What do Austrians think of the movie?
• Is Harry Lime the anti-Christ?
• Would it work as a musical?
• When did women get the right to vote in Switzerland?
• What does this movie have to do with James Bond, Joker, and Spongebob?
• Where is that creepy little boy now?
• and: What does Jacob think??

It’s PF II, it’s a classic, it’s a must-listen. Good laughs, good ideas, good points, good tunes, good times.