The Third Man

the Third Man ( The Third Man ) is a British film of Carol Reed left in 1949. This film had the Palme of gold Cannes festival 1949.

Synopsis

On invitation of Harry Files, his/her former friend of studies, Holly Martins, author of detective novel, arrives at Vienna. Hardly arrived, it has just time to attend funerals of his friend, killed supposedly in an car accident. In this Vienna of after Second world war still in ruin and divided into various combined sectors, Harry Lime would have taken an active part in the sale of drugs counterfeited - penicillin - on the black-market. Holly Martins will carry out its survey.

Data sheet

Title: the Third Man
original Title: The Third Man
Realization: Carol Reed
Scenario: Graham Greene
Music: Anton Karas
Production: David Selznick
Coming out date: 1949
Film: English
Format: black & white
Kind: Black film
Lasted: 93 minutes
Left: February 1950 (the United States)

Distribution

Joseph Cotten: Holly Martins
Orson Welles : Harry Files
Alida Valli: Anna Schmidt
Trevor Howard: Major Calloway
Bernard Lee: Sergeant Paine

Comments

Film to be seen for the final scene of continuation in the sewers and the face of Orson Welles lit in the embrasure of the door.
the oblique framings are remarkable there.
the Original soundtrack of Anton Karas is very famous.
Splendid final scene: heroin going up the alley.
to be seen, the meeting between Harry Files and Holly Martins in the large wheel of Vienna.

Distinctions

Grand Prix of the Cannes festival 1949
Oscar of best photography 1951

External bond

'' the third Man '' on IMDB

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