The Third Man (1949)

Name: The Third Man
Released: 1949
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Paul Hörbiger

• Movies, Mystery, Thriller

• 105 min

7.9

Hunted by men ... Sought by WOMEN!

Directed by: Carol Reed
Casting: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Erich Ponto, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Alexis Chesnakov, Thomas Gallagher, Herbert Halbik, Hannah Norbert, Eric Pohlmann, Carol Reed, Annie Rosar, Frederick Schrecker, Hugo Schuster, Karl Stepanek, Theodore Gottlieb, Jenny Werner, Reed De Rouen, Geoffrey Keen, Robert Brown
Countries: United Kingdom
Premiere: 1949-08-31
Status: Released

Tags: staged death, black market, cemetery, investigation, soviet military, prater, british army, austria, cover-up, film noir, foot chase, vienna, austria, sewer, missing person, post world war ii, ferris wheel, grim, penicillin, forged passport, ominous

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.