[lbo-talk] Great Conservative Films

[Miles Jackson]

socialismorbarbarism wrote:
> Why "The Third Man"? (And I am unfamiliar with the rest.)
> 

It's probably Welles' cuckoo clock line:

"You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the 
Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they 
produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In 
Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of 
democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Miles