72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Third Man

Carol Reed
     104 m.
Synopsis
Reed, Greene and the third man, Welles, who almost takes the credit away from them: a lesson, that Hitchcock would envy, about how the villain can steal the limelight in a film. Set between two funerals (for the same man), no one has ever filmed a better more realistic portrait of what a city in the post-war period was like (with Rossellini's permission). Reed's narrative pulse is held steady right up to the famous final shot. A monument that should be visited now and then like the ones in cities that we love.
Director
Carol Reed
Screenplay
Graham Greene
Photography
Robert Krasker
Cast
Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway)
Running Time
104 m.
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