Classic thriller starring Orson Welles in which an author investigates the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old acquaintance Harry Lime (Welles). When he is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car accident, Martins is intrigued by inconsistencies in the accounts of the death and decides that he can't leave the city without investigating further. As a consequence, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue as he searches for the elusive 'third man' who was at the scene of Lime's death. When the head of the local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), informs him that Lime was involved in black market drug distribution, the plot thickens even further...
- Cast
- Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Sigfried Breuer, Ernst Deutsch, Paul Hoerbiger, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Genres
- Classics
- Language
- English
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