I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Third Man (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:18.352 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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(BELLS CHIMING)

- I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better.

- I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market.

- We'd run anything if people wanted it enough and had the money to pay.

- Of course, a situation like that does tempt amateurs. But, well, they, you know, they can't stay the course like a professional.

- Now the city, it's divided into four zones, you know, each occupied by a power, the American, the British, the Russian and the French.

- But the centre of the city, that's international, policed by an international patrol, one member of each of the four powers.

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