BackgroundThe Third Man(1949) is a visually-stylish thriller - a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting and crumbling, 20th century Vienna following World War II.When Admiral Robertson returned to the bridge, he kneeled over Carlson""s body, when his throat was slit from behind with a machete(# 7 death).The film""s morality tale of corruption ends with its ultimate defeat and the saving of the community by a morally-redeemed martyr (a common man with a conscience).He claimed he had always been thinking about what was best for his daughter and then suggested: "maybe you should do the same.