The Third Man (1949)

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The Third Man. The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard, set in post-war Vienna. The film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten) who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that.

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The Third Man is a consummate production, from Graham Greene's witty, disturbing screenplay to Robert Krasker's evocatively skewed photography and Anton Karas' unforgettable zither score. But, despite his minimal screen time, Orson Welles' amoral Harry Lime steals the show - thanks partly to the famous 'cuckoo clock' speech penned.

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Because of Welles's seductive power, ''The Third Man'' is often stacked on the ''Orson Welles'' shelf at upscale video stores. But the first two names in the ads for the 50th anniversary reissue.

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Harry Lime : Don't be so gloomy. After all, it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did.

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Blustering, conceited, charming - Orson Welles is still spellbinding in Carol Reed's compelling parable of guilt, now rereleased 70 years on Peter Bradshaw Wed 25 Sep 2019 08.23 EDT First.

The Third Man (1949)

When cameras rolled on the Viennese location shoot of "The Third Man" in October 1948, director Carol Reed's villain wasn't even in the city. Orson Welles had signed on to play shady racketeer.

The Third Man (1949)

The famous scene where Orson Welles as Harry Lime appears for the first time in Carol Reed's The Third Man. In HD.

The Third Man (1949)

Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, "The Third Man" stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime (Orson Welles.

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Orson Welles in The Third Man: 'dominates the film both by his presence and his absence'. Philip French's classic DVD The Third Man. This article is more than 8 years old. Review.

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The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

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The Third Man is regarded as one of the greatest British films ever. Written by Graham Greene, directed by Carol Reed, starring Orson Welles and shot in Vienna, it summed up perfectly the downbeat.

The Third Man (1949)

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The Third Man 1949 colorized (Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles) Video Item Preview. Orson Welles as Harry Lime Trevor Howard as Maj. Calloway Paul Hörbiger as Karl Ernst Deutsch as Baron Kurtz Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel Bernard Lee as Sgt. Paine Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin

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This 1949 classic stars Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard, and chronicles pulp novelist Holly Martins who travels to Vienna and ends up investigating the death of an old friend, Harry Lime. He eventually discovers that the man he'd seen in a coffin at the narrative's outset had not in fact been Lime.

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Watch on. By Koraljka Suton Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train to Munich (1940), Odd Man Out (1947) and The Fallen Idol (1948), a movie which marked his first collaboration with writer and former.

The Third Man (1949)

Welles is in the film for barely ten minutes, but he dominates it. He wrote its most famous dialogue (the little speech about the Cuckoo clock), and he stars in the most famous sequence (the race through the sewers). For all intents and purposes, Orson Welles is central force of The Third Man.