The Third Man

Name: The Third Man
Director: Carol Reed
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Released: 1949
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 7.9

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1949·Directed by Carol Reed·4.2·1h 45m

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In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a “third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Recommended by 6 People

“I would just say that I am always struck by how perfect Joseph Cotten is as a foil to Orson Welles.”

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“One of my favorite scores, next to Days of Being Wild. An incredible use of depth and contrast and the word Lime.”

Brie Larson

Actor, Director

“This movie is on the altar of my love for the cinema. I saw it for the first time in a little fleabox of a theater on the Left Bank in Paris, in 1962, during my first $5 a day trip to Europe. It was so sad, so beautiful, so romantic, that it became at once a part of my own memories — as if it had happened to me.”