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Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. An out-of-work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post-war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market.
Feb 27, 2013 · Film. There was a third man. [A-] [A+] Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road. There is always another one walking beside you …. T.S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’. The Third Man (1949) is one of the most satisfying films ever made.
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 ...
Jan 13, 2023 · Filmed in postwar Vienna, The Third Man (1949) unflinchingly captures the city’s ruin while conveying an unsettling truth about war. (BFA/Alamy) World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. But for most of the continent, including its millions of displaced persons and those trying to rebuild their lives in ruined cities, it would be years ...
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Dec 8, 1996 · By the time Lime finally appears we have almost forgotten Welles is even *in* the movie. The sequence is unforgettable: the meow of the cat in the doorway, the big shoes, the defiant challenge by Holly, the light in the window, and then the shot, pushing in, on Lime's face, enigmatic and teasing, as if two college chums had been caught playing ...
Sep 8, 2010 · No sets, the real Vienna the way it looked then. Pulp Western writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) has come to the scarred, suspicious city to look up an old buddy, Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn he was killed in a freak automobile accident. There are conflicting accounts from people who seem reluctant to talk.
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Dec 12, 2016 · Frequently cited as the Best British film, The Third Man represents a converging of two great talents – those of novelist, screenwriter and film critic Graham Greene with film director Carol Reed – in a work that centres on the acts of writing, roleplaying and interpretation. This examines the unique circumstances of the development of the film and its roots in the lives of Greene ...
