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Jan 7, 2022 · Holly Martins (Cotten), a penniless writer of pulpy western novels, arrives in the divided city of Vienna on the promise of a job with his old friend Harry Lime (Welles). He's 10 minutes too late ...
Aug 6, 2022 · Classic film noir ‘The Third Man’ — and that much debated ending. ends with one of the most uncompromising scenes in movie history. Joseph Cotten’s character Holly Martins wants to help the beautiful and bereaved Anna ( after Harry Lime (Orson Welles), her man — an evil man but the love of her life — was shot to death in the sewers ...
The final scene in “The Third Man” is a long, elegiac sigh. It almost did not exist. Selznick and Greene originally wanted a happy ending. (Greene originally wrote, “. . . her hand was through his arm”). Reed convinced Greene he was wrong. The movie ends as it begins, in a cemetery, and then Calloway gives Holly a ride back to town.
Jul 2, 2013 · The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. It is particularly...
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Jul 1, 2015 · The final scene in “The Third Man” is a long, elegiac sigh. It almost did not exist. Selznick and Greene originally wanted a happy ending.
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.Set in post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the film centres on American writer Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that he has died.
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Feb 27, 2013 · The third man is explained early on in the film, when we learn that when Harry Lime’s supposedly dead body was taken across the road there were two known people who carried him, but the porter at Lime’s apartment block is alone in saying he saw a third man (“There was a third man”), to be later murdered because of it.
