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The
Third Man
Release date 3rd September 1949
Country : UK
Running time : 104 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Screenplay by Graham Greene
Directed by Carol Reed
Release date 3rd September 1949
Country : UK
Running time : 104 mins
Genre : Thriller
Starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Screenplay by Graham Greene
Directed by Carol Reed
Holly Martins a writer of pulp novels
attempts to discover the mystery of the death of his friend Harry Lime.
Just who was the Third Man ?
Simply the best thriller ever to come out of Britain it works both as a detective story and a masterful exercise in suspense up to the highest standards of Hitchcock. That haunting zither music will remain with you always once you see it and visually it is also brilliant from Welles memorable first appearance to the image of him pushing his fingers up a drain grating. Wonderful dialogue too.
Simply the best thriller ever to come out of Britain it works both as a detective story and a masterful exercise in suspense up to the highest standards of Hitchcock. That haunting zither music will remain with you always once you see it and visually it is also brilliant from Welles memorable first appearance to the image of him pushing his fingers up a drain grating. Wonderful dialogue too.
"Crammed with
cinematic plums which would do the early Hitchcock proud." Time
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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