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The Third Man [1949]
starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
directed by: Carol Reed

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014780386662
Format: Black & White, PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 08, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1949
Sales Rank: 4913

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer, Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. --Anne Hurley

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A masterpiece of movie making and story telling from Carol Reed and Graham Greene
Everything about this movie works. If anyone wants to see how a movie should be directed and edited, or a screenplay written, or complex characters acted, or a film photographed, this is the one to flip in the DVD machine.

Holly Martins, a down-on-his-luck writer, shows up in post-war Vienna looking for his old friend, Harry Lime. But he's told Lime died in an accident, the military tell him to go home, and he's attracted to a mysterious woman he sees at Lime's grave. He sticks around, gets different stories about Lime, but finally understands Lime was an unscrupulous black marketeer, dealing in adulterated drugs among other things. And he realizes that Lime is alive.

Carol Reed was at the top of his form with this ... Read More:

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- huh?
the reviewer who decries welles' ferris wheel speech is totally off base. i can't think of a line in the movie (or in literature elsewhere) that more slyly or succintly sums up the seductiveness of evil and corruption. he essentially turns evil into beauty (art), asserting that beauty is built on the ruins of evil. his lines here are bright spots in an otherwise banal, lumbering movie that gets undue ardour because of its zippy zither score. personally i find the rest of the movie rather dull and unmemorable, and i'm not surprised that the director protested the inclusion of these lines. it puts the rest of the movie to shame.

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- One of the Best Classic Films made!
ihave to admit that this version can not be given four stars becasue it has been reduced by five minites, something i am very against.

The film itself is about an american, Holly Martin who comes to Europe to start working for a friend of his that he hasn't seen in years. Upon arriving he is told that his friend Harry Lime has been killed in a car crash and had dubious links with the black market and the illegal sale of atered down penicillin. At first, he stays to prove Harry innocent but finds too many questions about his friend, including whether he is actually dead!
The title comes from when Harry was supposed to have been killed. When asked, he is told that two men - both Harry's close friends and business partners - carried ... Read More:

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- and wat did they produce?the cuckoo clock....
This is by far one of the best flms i have ever seen. i can't recall the amount of times i have seen it, and each time i have noticed an0ther detail that explains the film a little bit more to me. beautifully shot with the famous orson welles speech at the fairground (watch out for it if you haven't heard or seen it)this is a masterpiece to be frank. the plot is brilliant and i grab such sympathy for both main characters though i know i should'nt because the expressions and language draw me in. this is a fantastic film, nothing like a crap modern bloodbath thriller, this shows they new how to direct and act then. watch it and don't miss out on this wonder.;)

Rating:

- archetype of film-noir
Film-noir definition was born with 'The Third Man'. It's brilliant in every aspect: cinematograpghy beautiness, timeless script, the best actors,... .
I couldn't find a flaw in this one, and believe me, I am some sort of annoying regarding my views to films.
I am proud to own it.

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