tt0041959 The Third Man (1949)Director : Carol Reed

Release Date : 3 September 1949 (UK)

Genre : Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins , Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt (as Valli) , Orson Welles as Harry Lime , Trevor Howard as Major Calloway , Bernard Lee as Sergeant Paine , Paul Hörbiger as Karl - Harry's Porter (as Paul Hoerbiger) , Ernst Deutsch as 'Baron' Kurtz , Siegfried Breuer as Popescu , Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel , Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin , Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna's Old Landlady

Plot : Arriving inside Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his pal Harry Lime, who has invited him, freshly passed on to the immense beyond inside a automobile accident.

Run Time : 104 min | USA:93 min

Country : UK

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Language : English | German | Russian

Filming Locations : Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK

Company : London Film Productions

Trivia : Graham Greene chose Harry Lime’s surname for it “reminded him of the quicklime where murderers were buried.”

Goofs : Continuity: Three kittens were cast off because Harry Lime’s major admired cat. But the entirety three kittens more matured varied sizes along with colors.

Tag Lines : Carol Reed's Classic Thriller
You've never met anyone like him! (from reissue print ad)
He'll have you in a dither with his zither! (from reissue print)
Hunted by men…Sought by WOMEN!
HUNTED…By a thousand men! Haunted…By a lovely girl!

Plot Summary : An out of performance mush fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives inside a trade attempt Vienna divided into sectors by the successful allies, along with where a shortage of accumulations has point to a blossoming black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has given him a job, merely to find out that Lime has lately passed away inside an untypical transactions accident. From notifying Lime’s friends along with associates Martins rapidly notices that many of the stories are inconsistent, along with determines to find out what on earth in fact appeared to Harry Lime.

An American pottage person responsible arrives inside post-WWII Vienna exclusively to evaluate that the buddy who waited since him is slaughter less than puzzling circumstances. The following brainteaser entangles him inside his friend’s engagement inside the black market, and the multinational police, also and his Czech girlfriend.

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