I first heard the piece at the age of 5 watching the film sat on my father’s knee at home. It hasn’t been played now for many years but hearing it again brings back memories!
I found this song on Sirius and love it! Seems to bring back childhood memories. I'm only 63 but still remember hearing this. Maybe it's the instruments I like. I'd like to find it on disc if possible.
Lovely but it really doesn't need the orchestra drowning his terrific zither playing out. The original movie theme is just Karas playing solo, much better. I dig his Loden jacket, very Tyrolian!
@@janillemccall9177 THEY ADDED SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT NEEDED . . . DAMN IT. I HAVE THEE LP WITH OUT THAT DAMN UNWANTED HELP. Is he playing in a cave ?????
Es gibt Filme und Musik die muß man immer wieder sehen und hören, sowie eine Stadt die man auch immer mal wieder sehen muss. Danke und schöne Grüße aus Franken
@@busodelor1977 öffentlich nirgendwo weshalb du auch nicht den Namen meines Urgroßvater's als Komponist sehen wirst. In meiner Familie allerdings eine sehr traurige Geschichte und auf Papier nicht dokumentiert.
Ich muss ehrlich gestehen, ich bin noch ein junges, naives Mädchen, aber die tolle Musik und die Begabung von Anton Karas kann ich schon jetzt erkennen.
Da sollten Sie sich den Film "Der Dritte Mann" ansehen, dort ist die Musik am besten aufgehoben, weil Karas sie komponierte, während er den Film sah. Es gibt kaum eine stimmigere Filmmusik. Der Regisseur Carol Reed hatte schon eine andere Musik schreiben lassen, aber als er Karas hörte, wusste er, dass keine Musik wienerischer sein konnte.
This spine chilling music captivated me as a ~12 year old but only because the book was read to me in a Grammar school English lessons by a delightful and cultivated English teacher. I don't recall first hearing but the film did from first view and 50+ years later has never left me. Anton Karas devises the perfect score for the best film ever made and no coincidence it was Carol Reed, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles that made an indelible impression on me which remains today - Ponto, Weintraub, et al gave such superb performances, all from the canon of German Impressionist film making. Geniuses at work and what corridors in my mind they directed me to......still walking through door after door.
Beautiful music, I've always loved to hear Anton Karas playing zither. As a professional musician, this piece is one which I am most often asked to play. This is music which has soul. Thank you so much for posting.
Sir you are dead right about this music it has class and most importantly a soul and it's a timeless classic and will be around long after we mere mortals have shuffled off this planet
I was in a hotel in Tehran in the late 70's when the opening tune came on the TV in the foyer. "Very good English film" said a voice. A guy from Sweden and myself sat and watched it . Not many days later the hotel was trashed by rioters against the Shar and I got out of Iran asap.
a67878975@gmail.com. WELLES, COTTEN, VALLI (Baronessa tedesca) HOWARD e Anton KARAS dire BRAVISSIMI è SMINUIRLI. BUONA PASQUA a chi ha letto, legge o leggerà quest SMS.
Der Einzige der sich jemals geweigert hatte in dieses Kanalsystem hinabzusteigen ist Orson Wells gewesen. Der Berich des Kanals wo gefilmt worden war musste für Wells EXTRA PARFÜMIERT werden damit er in der einen Szene in der er physisch dort am Originaldrehort gewesen war überhaupt betreten hatte. Deshalb sind auch DIE BERÜHMTEN FINGER die am Filmende durch den Kanaldeckel kamen nicht seine gewesen sondern die von Carol Reed persönlich da Wells die Kannalisation in Wien nie wieder betreten wollte.
@@rogerlynch5279 Kann man aber verstehen! Waren Sie schon im Kanal??? Bin in der Donau geschwommen wie ich jung war, und da sind die Wuerstel auch herumgeschwommen, grauslich.
It was on AMC last night. Watched for the 1st time since I was just a little kid. Certain scenes are there in my mental archives. The music is ageless.
Sooo ein schönes Stück. Ich liebte es schon als Kind und finde es jetzt mit knspp 60 immer noch so schön. Schade das junge Menschen so etwas gar nicht mehr kennen... 😎
Hola, que tal, escuchando esta música vuelvo a tener 8 añitos, hoy , gracias al Creador tengo 74 años y 10 meses.Naci el 17 de Noviembre del año 1946.Es maravilloso acordarse de la niñez, cuando se escuchaba la radio a tubos y que se demoraba alrededor de 2 minutos para que se recibiera la señal.Bueno, son recuerdos.Chao y gracias.
Thousand thanks for such a nice comment. At least I am not the only one who feels that way. I am born in Vienna and lived there to my middle 20's! Thanks again. The bridge you see there in the movie is not there anymore (Reichsbruecke) I believe it collapsed on a Summer Sunday early morning with only 1 car on it. A few hours later, there would have been many more casualties (thousends) because everyone wanted to go to the 'Gaensehaufl' a bad at the old Danube or just to the old Danube swimming.
Every time I play the dvr of this movie, my neighbors also enjoy the opening music. And in the original version, that's Carol Reed doing the monologue. Vienna next summer or bust!! VISIT THE THIRD MAN MUSEUM while you're there. Say hello to Gerhard with greetings from the Ami who gave him the Brit uniforms. He'll know.
Yes this Anton Karas playing his composition "the third man theme" but many rears later. The film version was just the zither and Anton. What you are hearing is Anton Karas with a piano accordion and a few other instruments, This may be HQ but sadly it has lost the realism and the punch of the film version unfortunately.
Excelente Anton Karas y su cítara con el bello tema de la muy buena película con dos actores brillantes.Suspenso, espionaje ..... en la Viena de otro tiempo pero siempre hermosa y señorial.Amo esta interpretación.Soy argentina y amo a Austria por mis ancestros.
One of the finest suspense thriller movie ever made in Britain.Great composition of Anton Karas,photography of Robert Kraskar n well directed by Carol Reed.Equally great performances of Orson Wells,Alisa Valli,Joseph Cotten n Trevor Howard.Truly a gem of movie.One of the best movies of forties.
Arguably the best movie ever made in Britain.The photography of Australian Robert Kraskar is brightest part of the movie.The long shot of the movie still consider one of the finest display of B/W photography.
I agree beautiful music, but I also liked seeing a little bit what the War did, do a beautiful city! Hopefully we never have War again. Actually we saw only a little bit of destruction. I remember going up a circular staircase where partly half of the staircase was blown away (the inner part of staircase) through a bomb of whatever! No railing just on one side the wall, where you could put your hand there while climbing at 3 or 4 floor, don't remember anymore, how many floors! Some of the stairs had a big gap so you really had to be close to the wall, eerie!
Sorry for my approximate english:so many thanks to Karas who is a great part of the "sublime"(?)picture who's "the third man ",lately considered as a master piece, and don't forget J Cotten and T Howard!Its the music of my phone calls,and,listening, J often do not answer...
I've never actually seen a zither being played (wow) - so glad I stumbled across the genius who played the wonderful Harry Lime Theme - I do prefer it without the backing music though
I was seven years old when this tune was first released. I loved it then. I am now seventy eight, and I still love it.
I feel just the same! 😊
u02920 Me too! Brings back memories of visiting Grandma who lived in Vienna
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Yup, rather haunting, I was a wee boy of about the same age.
I first heard the piece at the age of 5 watching the film sat on my father’s knee at home. It hasn’t been played now for many years but hearing it again brings back memories!
Bellísima musica. Gracias
this is my favorite music of all time i am a senior citizen now and still
it might be the first music that I heard . Born in 1950
I found this song on Sirius and love it! Seems to bring back childhood memories. I'm only 63 but still remember hearing this. Maybe it's the instruments I like. I'd like to find it on disc if possible.
It is available 😀
Wonderful!
Toda una melodía en recordar por siempre del fondo musical de esta extraordinaria película.
Manifique. Très belle musique. Grand film.
Herrlich, mein Vater war Zitter Spieler. Der Song war das 1. Instrumental, das ich in meinem Leben gehört habe - ich bin Gitarrist geworden.
Lovely but it really doesn't need the orchestra drowning his terrific zither playing out. The original movie theme is just Karas playing solo, much better. I dig his Loden jacket, very Tyrolian!
You’re so right! Sacrilege! Dark and smoky movie, vibrant music. Don’t change a thing!
@@janillemccall9177 THEY ADDED SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT NEEDED . . . DAMN IT. I HAVE THEE LP WITH OUT THAT DAMN UNWANTED HELP. Is he playing in a cave ?????
The original was perfect. Why spoil it? :-(
Here's a link to solo zither, no accordion accompaniment. th-cam.com/video/a-W5ktOR2ts/w-d-xo.html
❤ wow. 1:25
Still one of the best films ever made, and certainly the best theme music.
I still love to listen to this amazing Harry Lime Theme played on the zither by Anton Karas.
I am now 91 years old.
TQ.
Please promise me to left here comment when you celebrate your 100th birthday!
Best regards from Switzerland.
Me too, every time I hear this theme, I'm taken back to watching it for the first time in the theatre.
I can't remember the plot but the theme music still haunts me!
Es gibt Filme und Musik die muß man immer wieder sehen und hören, sowie eine Stadt die man auch immer mal wieder sehen muss. Danke und schöne Grüße aus Franken
I cannot imagine The Third Man without the very atmospheric music of Anton Ksras and his zither.
By the Numbers it was a good movie,but with the music...priceless
It wasn't made by Anton Karas. It was made by my mothers grandfather, they were friends and Anton stole his life work.
Nor can I imagine the film in colour
@@MeikelDaVinci b itte wo ist das dokumentiert?
@@busodelor1977 öffentlich nirgendwo weshalb du auch nicht den Namen meines Urgroßvater's als Komponist sehen wirst. In meiner Familie allerdings eine sehr traurige Geschichte und auf Papier nicht dokumentiert.
Many many years ago. I still get sentimental. One of my dads fav.❤❤
The zither is a beautiful melodic instrument and Anton Karas played it beautifully Reminds me of holidays spent in Austria Such a memorable time
Ich muss ehrlich gestehen, ich bin noch ein junges, naives Mädchen, aber die tolle Musik und die Begabung von Anton Karas kann ich schon jetzt erkennen.
Da sollten Sie sich den Film "Der Dritte Mann" ansehen, dort ist die Musik am besten aufgehoben, weil Karas sie komponierte, während er den Film sah. Es gibt kaum eine stimmigere Filmmusik. Der Regisseur Carol Reed hatte schon eine andere Musik schreiben lassen, aber als er Karas hörte, wusste er, dass keine Musik wienerischer sein konnte.
I have loved this since childhood when I was taken to see the film The Third Man. The music is so memorable. M. Clifford
@@schienenlaufer697das wusste ich nicht. Bin Fan vom Film und der Musik sowieso, sie ist wunderbar und ja, wienerischer geht nicht mehr ❤
This spine chilling music captivated me as a ~12 year old but only because the book was read to me in a Grammar school English lessons by a delightful and cultivated English teacher. I don't recall first hearing but the film did from first view and 50+ years later has never left me. Anton Karas devises the perfect score for the best film ever made and no coincidence it was Carol Reed, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles that made an indelible impression on me which remains today - Ponto, Weintraub, et al gave such superb performances, all from the canon of German Impressionist film making. Geniuses at work and what corridors in my mind they directed me to......still walking through door after door.
Beautiful music, I've always loved to hear Anton Karas playing zither. As a professional musician, this piece is one which I am most often asked to play. This is music which has soul.
Thank you so much for posting.
Sir you are dead right about this music it has class and most importantly a soul and it's a timeless classic and will be around long after we mere mortals have shuffled off this planet
The great film and the great music are inseparable. I *love* the final scene.
This is one of the my favorite music and unforgettable film in my life.
I was in a hotel in Tehran in the late 70's when the opening tune came on the TV in the foyer. "Very good English film" said a voice. A guy from Sweden and myself sat and watched it . Not many days later the hotel was trashed by rioters against the Shar and I got out of Iran asap.
virtuos und begnadet - Danke Anton für diese wunderschöne Musik
Wow すごい。チター私も弾けるようになりたい！ドイツ村で流れてそうな曲じゃない⁉︎
Einer der genialsten Stücke.
einfach unerreicht , superschön
I heard this when I was very young. I loved it.. Im 71 now.
Good boy. Me too. 66
Ja -- me too - I am now 88
Me too! I'm 72.
Nice boys me from get back the beatles im 22
Ok. I am 74😅
Wonderful tune played by the master of the zither
Ha! I was 8....I remember it and loved it. I am now 80 and I just queued up the movie to watch tomorrow evening.
John Lennon played it in Let it be. So I came here.
Haha leon redbone brought me here, nice to see music brings everyone together it's absolutely beautiful
Immer wieder schön zu hören !!! 👍🏼😍
a67878975@gmail.com.
WELLES, COTTEN, VALLI (Baronessa tedesca) HOWARD e Anton KARAS dire BRAVISSIMI è SMINUIRLI.
BUONA PASQUA a chi ha letto, legge o leggerà quest SMS.
Yes, it is.
das Lied ist so wunderschön, es gibt in Wien eine Tour durch das Kanalsystem, sehr empfehlenswert!
Der Einzige der sich jemals geweigert hatte in dieses Kanalsystem hinabzusteigen ist Orson Wells gewesen.
Der Berich des Kanals wo gefilmt worden war musste für Wells EXTRA PARFÜMIERT werden damit er in der einen Szene in der er physisch dort am Originaldrehort gewesen war überhaupt betreten hatte.
Deshalb sind auch DIE BERÜHMTEN FINGER die am Filmende durch den Kanaldeckel kamen nicht seine gewesen sondern die von Carol Reed persönlich da Wells die Kannalisation in Wien nie wieder betreten wollte.
@@rogerlynch5279 Kann man aber verstehen! Waren Sie schon im Kanal??? Bin in der Donau geschwommen wie ich jung war, und da sind die Wuerstel auch herumgeschwommen, grauslich.
Just watched the movie again for the umpteenth time,totally atmospheric,no sound score ever bettered this.
It was on AMC last night. Watched for the 1st time since I was just a little kid. Certain scenes are there in my mental archives. The music is ageless.
Sooo ein schönes Stück. Ich liebte es schon als Kind und finde es jetzt mit knspp 60 immer noch so schön. Schade das junge Menschen so etwas gar nicht mehr kennen... 😎
hallo Gabi, bin Bj. ´62 & mir geht´s GENAUSO...-:)-:)
Ein 22--jähriger hier, der das Lied kennt 😉
@@MathiasBacher Kann ich toppen, hab das schon gefeiert als es mir mein Opa mit 11 gezeigt hat. Jahrgang 2004 btw.
A tale of Blackmarket dealing in watered-down Penicillin in immeditae Post War Vienna.
The Music is captivatingly Viennese.
I have heard many zither players but Anton really mastered the instrument.Was/is the king of the instrument.
I saw this movie when it came out.It shows the destruction of WW2 .I always loved this time.It stays with you.
fabulous music for a wonderfull movie,, thanks
Like the 1993 movie ‘The Fugitive’, this is a film I never get tired of!!
In many countries the term "The third man" is not known at all.
The right question is to ask for the "Harry lime theme"
Masterpiece, always stay at my heart ,great orsen wels.
Orson was awesome!!
Un super bravo ad Anton Karas per aver creato questa bellissima musica.
a67878975@gmail.com
Non solo KARAS è bravo ma gli attori: WELLES COTTEN VALLI HAWARD bravissimi.
And the movie? A masterpiece of the lady century.
Hola, que tal, escuchando esta música vuelvo a tener 8 añitos, hoy , gracias al Creador tengo 74 años y 10 meses.Naci el 17 de Noviembre del año 1946.Es maravilloso acordarse de la niñez, cuando se escuchaba la radio a tubos y que se demoraba alrededor de 2 minutos para que se recibiera la señal.Bueno, son recuerdos.Chao y gracias.
Wow marvelous, just like hearing Orson Welles talking as Harry Lime on old Time radio.
Der dritte mann ..Einer der besten filme in" filmgeschichte" aber schaut doch auch einmal "M..eine stadt sucht einen mörder !
Papa da is Er ja der Mörder.
Was für eine Musik und was für ein Film! Sagenhafte Hommage an diese Stadt, und trotzdem nie banal oder übertrieben!
Thousand thanks for such a nice comment. At least I am not the only one who feels that way. I am born in Vienna and lived there to my middle 20's! Thanks again. The bridge you see there in the movie is not there anymore (Reichsbruecke) I believe it collapsed on a Summer Sunday early morning with only 1 car on it. A few hours later, there would have been many more casualties (thousends) because everyone wanted to go to the 'Gaensehaufl' a bad at the old Danube or just to the old Danube swimming.
GENIALES ...ORSON WELLES ....ANTON KARAS....IRREPETIBLES... GRACIAS 2019....🎶👍👍👍✌.......RIP................
Masterpiece - Beautiful music.
Superbly made youtube of the great man and his hit tune. A great story and a memorable film.
The greatest Film music ever 👍👍👍
One of my favorite films and soundtrack of all time
Primi anni ottanta ,questa musica sentita in un caffè del Graben a Wien. Musica piena di melanconica dolcezza.
je suis littéralement envouté par cette musique
This movie really gripped us for decades! And all this drama was actually taking place night after night under Stalin in Russia!
Quite simply the best!
Every time I play the dvr of this movie, my neighbors also enjoy the opening music. And in the original version, that's Carol Reed doing the monologue. Vienna next summer or bust!! VISIT THE THIRD MAN MUSEUM while you're there. Say hello to Gerhard with greetings from the Ami who gave him the Brit uniforms. He'll know.
Karas fitted the film so well.
Yes this Anton Karas playing his composition "the third man theme" but many rears later. The film version was just the zither and Anton. What you are hearing is Anton Karas with a piano accordion and a few other instruments, This may be HQ but sadly it has lost the realism and the punch of the film version unfortunately.
Exactly. The mystery and the danger are completely gone this way. Are we the only ones hearing the accordeon which remains invisible?
still craving for penicillin? I am afraid the rest of the planet has developed
Well, I like this better than the movie version, so there
I’ve loved this for so many years.
Ja so kenn ich es auch -- von DAMALS danke !!!
Fascinante cette vidéo
La mise en scène,la musique
Merci You Tube
Zag hem heel lang geleden bij Mies en een virtuoos.
Immer noch ein Hammer. Ich liebe die Zither, kann leider kaum noch jemand.
sind super töne, hamma
Beautiful! Thanks Frank Brus for this post. A beautiful piece for a sordid story: the perfect combination. I love that film.
Oscar Jesús López Camacho b
Anton karas super genial la musica preciosa
One of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written. I read that the Pope requested he come to the Vatican and play this for him, and he did.
The most atmospheric piece of music i`ve ever heard . Its only comparison is Get Carter by Roy Budd . Two of the best film themes ever
Ipcress File theme !!
Vedere Anton Karas, che suona il suo stupendo brano.....migliore del film....
This is one of the most interesting and beautiful tunes ever to accompany a great movie.
And if ever a film music deserved an Oscar... But this didn't ! Shame...
ein grandioser Spielfilm aus dieser Zeit und der Titelmusik.Freue mich immer wieder wenn es im TV läuft.
A real masterpiece unique
Ein weiteres wiener Meisterwerk
He was a true artist!
Love the historical movie about espionage in WW2
Memories are made of this.
Bellissima musica indimenticabile.
Excelente Anton Karas y su cítara con el bello tema de la muy buena película con dos actores brillantes.Suspenso, espionaje ..... en la Viena de otro tiempo pero siempre hermosa y señorial.Amo esta interpretación.Soy argentina y amo a Austria por mis ancestros.
One of the finest suspense thriller movie ever made in Britain.Great composition of Anton Karas,photography of Robert Kraskar n well directed by Carol Reed.Equally great performances of Orson Wells,Alisa Valli,Joseph Cotten n Trevor Howard.Truly a gem of movie.One of the best movies of forties.
And the scenes shot in recently-post-war Vienna are historically valuable & remarkably enticing!
Arguably the best movie ever made in Britain.The photography of Australian Robert Kraskar is brightest part of the movie.The long shot of the movie still consider one of the finest display of B/W photography.
lovely soundtrack to a great movie starred joseph cotton? thank you so much .
Michael Rennie stared in half he TV series as well.
Get back brought me here
I hope they created a Karas-Avatar who will be installed in every Heurigen-Lokal in Vienna.
ANTON KARAS. 1906-1985 🙏❤️🙏
Great music brilliant film, I agree with all of you.
Beautiful song! The mystique of the melody line will forever warm my heart and hopefully yours as well! 😊😊
I agree beautiful music, but I also liked seeing a little bit what the War did, do a beautiful city! Hopefully we never have War again. Actually we saw only a little bit of destruction. I remember going up a circular staircase where partly half of the staircase was blown away (the inner part of staircase) through a bomb of whatever! No railing just on one side the wall, where you could put your hand there while climbing at 3 or 4 floor, don't remember anymore, how many floors! Some of the stairs had a big gap so you really had to be close to the wall, eerie!
le troisième homme un beau film de ESPIONNAGE AMOUR ET TRAHISON de ce tout grand Orson wells
Orson Welles a joué un rôle secondaire - C'est un film de Carol Reed !
J espere que youtube nous donnera l occasion a le voir.
No vi la película El Tercer Hombre era muy chico cuando la dieron en cines y hoy no de consigue. Pero este tema me lleva a mubinfsncua
That's funny, but I like the music theme even more than the Movie itself. Thanks for uploading.
Sorry for my approximate english:so many thanks to Karas who is a great part of the "sublime"(?)picture who's "the third man ",lately considered as a master piece, and don't forget J Cotten and T Howard!Its the music of my phone calls,and,listening, J often do not answer...
Phenomenal
This man is the King! I love him!
Omg I think I found it finally The Stork Patrol song ! Great day
Quel beau montage et agencement avec vidéo couleur!. Félicitations! André Bouchard Canada
Absolument d'accord avec vs.
Salutations de Montréal
love it since 100.000 years past and more
I've never actually seen a zither being played (wow) - so glad I stumbled across the genius who played the wonderful Harry Lime Theme - I do prefer it without the backing music though
JE ME SOUVIENS DE MA MAMAN QUI ADORAIT CE FILM ET SA BELLE MUSIQUE ♥
Der "Altmeister", unvergessen! 🎶
Wohl war! Überreicht 👍
tolle Musik , toller Film
The great Carol Reed 😍
And Oliver's uncle, rip🙏🇬🇧
The zither is it? Fantastic
Stuff, and a memory forever.👍🇬🇧🤔✌️ x
Faithful too the end.
Hey--Ebisu Station! ^_^
Ce morceau a marqué mes vertes années d'une ancre indélébile. J'ai aujourd'hui 70 ans. Je l'écoute à nouveau et régulièrement sans me lasser. René
just great,the music is timeless and srill beauttyfull as when it came out,a great instrument played by a great citarplayer.super👍👍👍👍👍