The Tramp also finds himself dealing with various authority figures during his exploits: a ""Big Brother"" factory boss, a minister, juvenile child-care authorities, a sheriff, a shipyard foreman, a department store manager, etc.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.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham""s mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios"" talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie...We had a ranch.It wasn""t a very big one.No plumbing.A little thing out back.Poor Jeremiah, he""ll never know how close he came to twenty million barrels of oil.She complains, after becoming half-drunk on bourbon, hat nobody calls her ""Jessie"" anymore.[The actress"" name is Jessie Royce Landis!] After asking that the men call her "Jessie," she also forthrightly promotes the availability of her daughter (improperly educated and made phony at a "finishing school" in her opinion) for ""Mr.