Tuesday 29 May 2012

The Third Man (1949)

The Third Man (1949)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Carol Reed
Bernard Lee, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Alida Valli, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Hedwig Bleibtreu
31 August 1949 (UK)
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.

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