Notorious vs. The Third Man

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My opinion of both of these films has improved a bit over time. I still find The Third Man to be a pretty middling film noir, but at least I no longer consider it an unwatchable bore. Notorious is just a better movie, overall. It's certainly nothing great, but the film's positives do (barely) drown out its negatives.

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, nuff said.

Third Man

The Third Man was awesome

Notorious is a very good Hitchcock film, but The Third Man is one of the great films of all-time and has one of the great twists in movie history.

Maybe it's the fact that the romance is a bigger plot point in Notorious that has me picking it over The Third Man, but the technicality of the lighting and shot set ups I feel is strong.