orson welles "the third man"- first great sewer chase on film?

[mopinko]

i watched this tonight and wondered if anyone had done the now cliched chase through the sewers before this movie.
???

[gratuitous]

1. Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera

Peter Lorre in M. Two just off the top of my head that preceded The Third Man.

However, The Third Man is still a terrific movie, one worth wtching over and over again.

[mopinko]

2. i had a feeling there was a phantom out there.

love movies, but by no means really know my history.

[El Supremo]

3. I think they've got a marker on that sewer in Vienna, old man.

For the movie.

[mopinko]

4. i bet they do.

great scenes. must have been quite the production back then. selznick must have thought welles was nuts.

[mopinko]

5. and the ferris wheel was pretty neat, too. np

[Captain Hilts]

6. GREATEST chase on foot on screen. The fingers coming up through the grate...the music...nt

[murielm99]

7. I love that movie!

The shadows! The balloon man! The girl walking away at the end.

[WCGreen]

8. I love the music in that movie...

[timtom]

9. I was gonna say "Les Miserables" (1935)

With Frederic March and Charles Laughton, but "Phantom" wins the antiquity prize.

[MrScorpio]

10. Orson Welles didn't direct it, Carol Reed did

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715346/

[kentauros]

11. It was certainly the most artistic and suspenseful

:)

The one that was the most fun, though, was the original version of "The Italian Job" :D