The Third Man – 75th Anniversary

From Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten’s pitch-perfect performances to Graham Greene’s peerless script to Anton Karas’ iconic zither score, Carol Reed’s The Third Man is one of the great British films, regularly featured on best of lists since its release in 1949. 

Pulp novelist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to search for his missing friend Harry Lime. On finding out that Harry recently died, Holly soon begins to doubt the official version of events.