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Oct 11, 2004 · Shadowing the Third Man: Directed by Frederick Baker. With Angela Allen, Joseph Cotten, Charles Drazin, Stephan Fleming. Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).
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- Frederick Baker
- 2004-10-11
Apr 10, 2012 · Shadowing The Third Man: Must-See Documentary on the Making of the Classic Film. It was the French thriller Pépé le Moko, with its infamous gangster hiding out in the casbah of Algiers, that inspired Graham Greene towards writing his classic treatment for The Third Man. When he reviewed the Jean Gabin film in 1937, Greene wrote that it ...
Shadowing the Third Man literally projects the classic 1948 feature film back to the original locations in the Austrian capital Vienna. Using state-of-the-art projection technology, the stunning images created by Carol Reed and the Oscar®-winning Director of Photography, Robert Krasker are beamed on a huge scale on to the glorious architecture ...
Film crew members who worked on "The Third Man" explore Vienna and describe making the 1949 noir classic in this documentary narrated by John Hurt. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Frederick Baker
- Synopsis
- Picture 8/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 10/10
- Closing
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime—and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas’s evocative zi...
For one of their first Blu-ray releases Criterion brings us Carol Reed’s The Third Manin its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this dual-layer disc. The picture is presented in 1080p. Unlike Criterion’s 2-disc DVD re-release (which this Blu-ray is more or less a port of) the transfer has not been picture boxed. Other than the lack of picture boxin...
The Blu-ray disc presents a lossless mono track over the DVD’s Dolby Digital mono tracks. Between Criterion’s two DVD releases (the original 1999 release and the 2007 re-issue) I couldn’t really distinguish a difference, and in all honesty I couldn’t distinguish much of a difference here. Volume and range is a little better but not by much. While t...
This Blu-ray ports the supplements from the 2-disc DVD re-issue, which itself ported supplements from Criterion’s original single-disc release. I’ve always loved the single-disc release, considering it one of my favourite DVDs, yet the two-disc release was able to top it astonishingly. For the supplement section of this review I copied most of it f...
I’m happy Criterion has chosen one of my favourite films to mark their Blu-ray debut. It looks wonderful and should have film enthusiasts ecstatic. And like the two-disc DVD the supplements are all fantastic. A definite recommendation. BUY AT:
Frederick Baker wrote and directed this behind-the-scenes exploration of "The Third Man," the 1949 classic of suspense, intrigue and drama starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, and based on the ...
“Shadowing The Third Man” explores the making of Graham Greene’s all time classic noir film “The Third Man”. This is the first documentary ever to be made on this much-loved film, which was voted the best British film of the 20th century in a BFI poll. For the next 90 minutes the Anglo-Austrian director Frede
