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The third Man:
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Carol Reed
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Third Man: Date
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1949
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Man who is visiting friend in Vienna
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Holly Martins
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Friend Who died:
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Harry Limes
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Harry's Lover
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Anna Schmidt
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British military police officer
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Major Calloway. After the services, Calloway gives Martins a lift to his hotel and advises the American to leave Vienna as he can do nothing more than get himself into trouble. The British policeman Calloway advises Martins to leave Vienna and, when Martins refuses and demands an investigation into Lime's suspicious death, finally reveals the truth about Lime's racket. Calloway shows him a dossier and photographs proving that Lime stole penicillin from military hospitals (the first known antibiotic and at the time a new and scarce life-saver commanding a very high price on the black market), and sold it for a high price in highly diluted form, with devastating effects on his many victims. Martins, convinced, agrees to leave Vienna.
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man that holly talks to who tells him about the death. this is when holly gets suspicious
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Baron Kurtz
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Martins questions _____ about the circumstances surrounding Lime's death, and ______ reassures Martins that there were only two men present at Lime's accident. Martins is not convinced, due perhaps to ______ air of evasiveness.
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Doctor Winkel
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Carol Reed
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Expressionistic use of tilted camera angles, giving an added sense of psychologica disorientation and suspense and paranoia. Critics praise the third man for its evocative atmosphere that reflects the mysterious of the human character. note scenes where the atmostphere seems to mirror the mood of the characters or the complexities of the situation. also directed british film classics such as odd man out, the fallen idol, our man in havana, and the musical OLIVer!.
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Screenplay by:
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Graham Greene.
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Acting:
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Joseph cotton (holly martins) is an underated actor who performed in some of the greatest of film classics including Citizen Kane and The magnificent Ambersons, shadow of a doubt.
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Famous Scenes
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note the converstaion atop the ferris wheel, the climactic chase through the vienna sewers, and the final "anti-romantic" shot of holly and anna, leading into the end credits.
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joseph Cotton
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Holly Martins
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Orson Welles
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Harry Lime
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Alida Valli
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Anna Schmidt
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Trevor Howard
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Major Calloway
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Graham Greene
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Allegedly devloped the entire story after penning one single opening sentence: "i had paid my last farewell to harry a week ago, when hs coffin was lowered into the frozen February ground, so that it was with incredulity that i saw him pass by, without a sign of recognition, amongst a host of strangers in the strand"
so much of is dialgue is memoriable. there were a dozen brilliant lines. most famous lines were improved by Welles in the legendery scene at top of ferris wheel, when harry tell holly "dont be so gloomy after all, its not that awful. like the fella says in italy for 30 years under the borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced michaelangelo, lenoardo de vinci, and the Renaissance. In switzerland they ahd brotherly love- the had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? the cucko clock. " |