“I wonder what the sewers looked like in “The Third Man?” my friend Rosie asked. One of the most famous scenes in the classic 1949 movie takes place in Vienna’s underground - in the city’s sewers. 

Karin from The Third Man Museum

was able to provide photos  

of the open and closed manhole covers

and the stairwell to the underground

 that Harry Lime used in ‘The Third Man’

to escape through the sewers.

“Copyright Third Man Museum Vienna”

You can also see it on this clip at YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8kq34pQcc
 

Harry Lime and Vienna’s Underground

One of Vienna’s most popular guided tours is available again after the recent completion of the main intercepting sewer below Vienna river. This Tour is sponsored by The Sewer Department of the City of Vienna.  Thus Visitors can follow the tracks of “The Third Man” in the historic vaults of Vienna’s sewers.  These are the same sewers  which formed the background to the 1949 movie classic starring Orson Welles.
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Learn more  about The Third Man Movie

on their website:  www.3mpc.net 

This is The Third Man Museum

DRITTE MANN MUSEUM
3mpc – third man private collection
pressgasse 25, 1040 wien, austria, tel. +43-1-5864872, www.3mpc.net

open saturdays 14.00 – 18.00.
in addition: Tuesday 18.00 – 20.00 on request.
groups welcome any time upon prior notice!