The Third Man

15 yrs 104 minutes • 1949 • 8.1

Vienna is a bombed-out city where black market trading reigns. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a poor writer, comes here to look for his friend Harry (Orson Welles) who is said to have died in a car accident. But there is a lot that is not true. When Holly begins to investigate the matter on his own, he is approached by a British police chief and a mysterious baron, who both have the same request: go home! The film adaptation of Graham Greene's story of the mysterious Harry Lime and his activities in Vienna shortly after the Second World War is a true classic.