FILM · Film-Noir
The Third Man
Pulp novelist Holly Martins arrives in postwar Vienna to bury an old friend — and finds the city’s black market very much alive. Carol Reed’s shadow-soaked masterpiece of friendship and betrayal.
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Cast & Crew
Details
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Cast
- Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
- Genre
- Film-Noir
- Release
- 1949
- Country
- UK
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
Reviews
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“The most perfectly directed thriller Britain has produced — Vienna itself is the villain, and the zither knows it.”
“Seventy years on, Reed’s slanted shadows still unsettle. Nothing about this film has dated except its rivals.”