Image from the motion picture The Third Man Image from the motion picture The Third Man

The Double Life Of A Restaurateur | Keith McNally Selects: The Third Man

Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 1949 | 93MIN

Director

Carol Reed

Cast

Joseph Cotten
Orson Welles
Alida Valli

n 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry’s innocence, but is Harry really dead?

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