The Third Man/Trivia


 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Sergeant Paine is the original M.
 * A number of famous Austrian and German actors appear in small parts, including Paul Hörbiger as the Hausmeister (janitor). Dr. Winkel is played by Erich Ponto, who played Peachum in the original production of the Threepenny Opera, and Baron Kurtz by Ernst Deutsch, the Rabbi's assistant from the 1920 movie Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam.
 * Money, Dear Boy: Orson Welles took the role as Harry Lime in order to fund his film adaptation of Othello. Also crosses over into What Might Have Been, in that Welles was offered either a straight paycheck or a third of the film's gross. He took the paycheck (being desperate for cash), but considering how huge a hit the movie was, had he taken the percentage, he might never have had to do paycheck work again.