

The Third Man
It is the story of this author, named Holly Martins, a Western wonder writer who arrives bankrupt as a guest on his childhood Harry Lime. He may have reached his childhood only to find him dead, where things now seem strange. The investigation begins with mysterious death, and thus begins in this legendary story about love, murder and everything tragic.
















12 May 1903, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, UK

23 December 1868, Linz, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

18 July 1913, Vienna, Austria-Hungary

15 October 1901, Bedford Park, London, England, UK

July 21, 1920 in Edmonton, London, England, UK

1898 in Germany

17 July 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


24 June 1906, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

August 18, 1924 in Hampstead, London, England, UK


30 December 1906, Putney, London, England, UK

September 26, 1894 in Russia

2 September 1899, Kremsier, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Kromeriz, Czech Republic]


November 22, 1886 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

29 September 1913, Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

25 February 1916, Vienna, Austria

16 September 1890, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

10 January 1908, Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK


23 July 1921, Swanage, Dorset, England, UK

31 May 1921, Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]

July 30, 1914 in Cairo, Egypt

2 July 1888, Berlin, Germany

April 7, 1908 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

16 April 1907, Stirling, Scotland, UK

21 August 1916, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

15 August 1916, London, England, UK

14 December 1884, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany



July 04, 2015
The bombed buildings, piles of rubble and their evocative shadows form a haunting backdrop to the outdoor scenes, particularly at night. ... Greene's talent for dialogue and suspense shine. [It] has more twists and turns than a rollercoaster.
July 03, 2015
It's an exciting experience, dazzling and entertaining and thought-provoking.
July 01, 2015
What really makes the film sing, though, isn't the jaunty and iconic zither score by Anton Karas. It's the film's groundbreaking visual aesthetic, which combines noir tropes with expressionism to create a visual wonderland of living shadows.
August 01, 2015
By the very nature of its settings and story, there are occasional reminiscences of Lang and Hitchcock, but there is nothing borrowed or imitated. Stylistically, The Third Man is Reed's most impressive film.
June 26, 2015
"The Third Man" is important not just because of its technique but because of its theme ...
March 09, 2017
There's an element of show-off quality in The Third Man-it's a stylistic tour de force of bravura lighting, brilliant location shooting, dynamic imagery, and sharp angles throwing the world off kilter-but Reed rises to the challenge of Greene's script.
June 24, 2015
A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.
July 02, 2015
Reed and screenwriter Graham Greene let the story unfold slowly and deliberately, like the cigarette smoke that floats around the characters, and keep us guessing at every step.
July 28, 2015
Welles was a still-ridiculously young 34 when he played Harry, but he was probably born sounding 56...
July 02, 2015
Like many, I have loved this thriller of conscience and betrayal most of my moviegoing life.
June 23, 2015
The Third Man is a movie of sobering pleasures.
August 06, 2015
Krasker's camera reveals a dank, matte, defeated city - so dully vivid as to be a character unto itself - except that this Vienna becomes something altogether different seen at night or underground.