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The Third Man (1949) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 30, 1999
• R2: 14 Jan 2002
Running Time
1 hour, 44 minutes
Country UK
Studio General Film Distributors, London Films
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Other Titles
• The Third Man
• The 3rd Man (1950)
• Der Dritte Mann (1950)
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Genre: Film-Noir, Suspense, Murder, Investigation, Scams And Cons, Disturbing, Police, Mistaken Identity, Escape, Betrayal, Spy
Tagline: Hunted by men...Sought by WOMEN!
Plot: Carol Reed reached the peak of his form with this classic noir, an elegy for American innocence and European elegance. Joseph Cotten, in fine form, stars as unemployed pulp-novelist Holly Martins. When he arrives in post-WWII Vienna on the promise of a job from his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles), he finds that Lime has recently died in a dubious car accident. Against the advice of British sector authority Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), who accuses Lime of criminal behavior, the indignant Martins decides to stay to investigate his friend's death. He searches this city of rubble-strewn streets and bombed-out buildings, earnestly questioning Lime's associates, a cynical, war-weary collection of black-market hustlers. At length, he realizes that the stories he's hearing are so full of contradiction, he's getting nowhere. Yet, he's entranced by Lime's beautiful girlfriend, Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli), who, unlike the others, seems to have loved Harry. Calloway finally provides evidence of Harry's treachery, and Martins, despondent, is about to return home when everything changes in a shadowed moment. THE THIRD MAN is a masterpiece of melancholia featuring extraordinary writing, acting, and directing, as well as a classic zither score by Anton Karas. Welles is memorable as the
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Carol Reed
Oliver!, Mutiny on the Bounty, Odd Man Out |
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Graham Greene
The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, Double Take | |
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