The Third Man

7.9

United Kingdom

Thriller Mystery

104 min

1949

Bernard Lee Robert Brown Geoffrey Keen Theodore Gottlieb Karl Stepanek Annie Rosar Carol Reed Eric Pohlmann Wilfrid Hyde-White Joseph Cotten Hedwig Bleibtreu Siegfried Breuer Erich Ponto Ernst Deutsch Paul Hörbiger Orson Welles Trevor Howard Alida Valli

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.