Except for the initial airport sequence, the entire studio-oriented film was shot in a Warner Bros.Hollywood/Burbank studio.Many other 40s stars were considered for the lead roles: Hedy Lamarr, "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan, French actress Michele Morgan, and George Raft.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.Robin was riding a turbo-charged sleek motorbike dubbed the Redbird.The villainous Mr.Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) had frozen the Antiquities Wing and turned security guards into blocks of ice, while attempting to rob a giant white diamond.They don""t even want to know your name.The unwritten rule is a new guy""s life isn""t worth as much ""cause he hasn""t put his time in yet - and they say, if you""re gonna get killed in the Nam, it""s better to get it in the first few weeks, the logic being you don""t suffer that much.Rennie and Sean ducked into a Times Diner, where they screamed to the waitress (Peggy Hedden, the director""s wife): "There is a maniac trying to kill us.