The Third Man (1949)

Star Rating- 3
Length of Film- 104 minutes
Director- Carol Reed
Cast- Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Horbiger, Ernst Deutxch, Erich Ponto, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Bernard Lee, & Wilfrid Hyde-White
Oscar- Robert Krasker (photography)
Oscar Nominations- Carol Reed (director), Oswalk Hafenrichter (editing)





 The movie is set at the end of World War II, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) arrives in Vienna to meet Harry Lime (Orson Welles) , his old friend from school, who has offered him a job. When he reaches Vienna, he finds out Harry died.

Blah...blah...blah... Martin tries to figure out what happened, met up with Lime's girlfriend Anna (Alida Valli) and falls in love with her. 

This movie is popular for 2 reasons: Harry Lime is ranked #37 for AFI's Villain list because he was stealing penicillin from military hospitals, deluding it and selling it on the black market, with many fatalities for those that used it.

Second reason is the only music that's played in the film is a zither. 

The ending was sad...but I liked it. Anna was walking by herself, and Martins was driving away. He had the driver stop the car, he got out and stood there, waiting for Anna to catch up to him. She never looked him, didn't even stop, she just kept on walking. And let me say, the photography was stunning.