Plot SynopsisThe film opens with its most famous sequence.It""s an audacious, incredible, breathtaking, three-minute, uninterrupted crane tracking shot under the credits (appearing superimposed on he left of the screen).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.He took my son to goad me into pursuing him to draw the lancers from their position.He""s mistaken his man...In our present position, the regiment holds Mohammed Khan checkmate.The regiment stays here...I cannot weaken the strength of the regiment in this emergency.And I can""t permit you or any other officer to risk their lives for Mr.Stone.Then, the Colonel admits he knows his son""s likely fate, like that of Barrett: "I know what may happen to my son hrough his own disobedience and folly.[In a subsequent scene shortly later, his mother screamed when she discovered his drowned body inside the transparent waterbed after she pulled back the comforter cover.You better cool off.""Crash" stood up and announced that he refused o "try out" for Annie as one of her draft picks, telling her: "After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don""t try out.