Actors Improvised These Famous Moments In Cinema

Published on June 16, 2019 By Jason Albert

The Third Man

Orson Welles is best known for his work on Citizen Kane, but he also had other projects, including The Third Man. In it, he made sure to add an almost entirely improvised monologue in one of the scenes.

British Lion Film Corporation

He improvised the following: “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”