The Third Man

Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating 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 matters further. As a consequence, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and searching 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...

Actor: Bernard Lee
Actor: Joseph Cotten
Director: Carol Reed
Actor: Alida Valli
Actor: Trevor Howard
Actor: Geoffrey Keen
Actor: Wilfrid Hyde-White
Producer: Alexander Korda
Actor: Orson Welles
Actor: Ernst Deutsch
Actor: Paul Hoerbiger
Actor: Erich Ponton
Actor: Sigfried Breuer
Actor: Hedwig Bleibtreu
Actor: Annie Rosar
Writer: Graham Greene
Music: Anton Karas
Writer: Graham Greene
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker