Greene, Graham: 1904-1991

Movie - The Third Man, 1949

  • Facts
    • Information from Internet Movie Data Base, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles; screenplay written by Graham Greene
    • Information from Wikipedia
    • Winner of the Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival (1949)
    • Commentary: A classic film noir thriller. Graham Greene, the author of this "treatment" says that it "was never written to be read but only to be seen." Roger Ebert says it is one of the ten best films of all time. The film also features the famous "Harry Lime Theme" played on a zither.
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    • The Harry Lime theme played by Anton Karas
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  • Articles
    • Review: "Orson Welles makes the most famous entrance in the history of the movies, and one of the most famous speeches." Roger Ebert; December 08, 1996
    • Wrong Geometries in The Third Man: "The entire film can be seen in two ways: as a visual document of the bombed-out fabric of late 1940s Vienna and as a stylised filmic environment built on the aesthetic foundations of German Expressionism." Richard Misek; July 2007
    • A near-perfect work: "Every time you see the film over the years you notice something new. You suddenly become aware, for instance, of the way the strings of the zither at the beginning are later echoed in the cables of the suspension bridge." The Guardian; August 2, 2015
    • There Was A Third Man
    • Bogdanovich on The Third Man and Orson Welles
    • One of the best British Film Noirs ever made
    • Comments on the Third Man
    • An look how The Third Man was beautifully restored in 4K
    • The Third Man, an extraordinary thriller from a screenplay by Graham Greene that looks at the state of Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War with something of concern

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