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Carol Reed. Director: The Third Man. Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life.
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director. Odd Man Out was the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
Apr 15, 2015 · A hunted man is pursued through the darkening streets of a crumbling, divided city by police, friends, co-conspirators, enemies and his blindly faithful lover — yes, there are many ways in which...
Apr 21, 2024 · Carol Reed, British film director noted for his technical mastery of the suspense-thriller genre. He was the first British film director to be knighted. Among his best-known films are Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968).
The Third Man (1949) Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard.
Aug 23, 2019 · Carol Reed’s brilliant interpretation of Graham Greene’s cold war thriller remains politically relevant Joseph Cotten in front of the iconic ferris wheel in Vienna, in a still from ‘The ...
Oct 21, 2009 · Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary British filmmaker Carol Reed in the first of a two-part feature…. Following in the footsteps of his father Sir Herbert Beerholm Tree, who founded...
Apr 27, 1976 · Sir Carol Reed, the British movie director whose most famous films included “The Third Man,” “Odd Man Out” and “The Fallen Idol,” died of a heart attack Sunday night in his London home. He was 69...
In The Third Man—probably the greatest British thriller of the postwar era—director Carol Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene set a fable of moral corruption in a world of near-Byzantine visual complexity: the streets and ruins of occupied Vienna…
Mar 21, 2003 · Born December 30, 1906 in London, British director Sir Carol Reed was the second son of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress May Pinney. Following a public school education, Reed made his theatrical debut in 1924.
