The Third Man
(1949)
★ 7.9 IMDb · 2,169 votes
Year: 1949
Runtime: 104 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Джозеф Коттен, Alida Valli, Тревор Ховард, Орсон Уэллс, Paul Hörbiger, Эрнст Дойч, Erich Ponto, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Бернард Ли
Plot
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
An out-of-work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post-war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates, Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.