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	The Third Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is this "third man", to whom the title of the film (which is essentially an elaborate MacGuffin) refers.
		The version of the The Third Man shown in American theaters, though not the version that appears on American DVDs, emphasizes Holly Martins' point of view rather than a racketeer's as shown in the UK version, from which 11 minutes were cut.
		A single, "The Third Man Theme", released in 1950 (Decca in UK, London Records in USA) became a best-seller, and later an LP was released.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Third_Man (1493 words)

	DVD Review - The Third Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But it is not only the backdrop that makes "The Third Man" a truly poignant film, it is the story itself that will have you hold your breath as the twisting plot throws the viewer into a story of deception and racketeering.
		Criterion Collection’s release of "The Third Man" is a great tribute to this classic film, presenting it in the movie’s original fullscreen aspect ratio.
		Although the video presentation of "The Third Man" on this DVD with its compression artifacts is somewhat disappointing, there can be no doubt that you won’t find a better-looking version of this milestone film anywhere.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_third_man.shtml (1357 words)

	Salon \| Movies
		Holly may be the protagonist of "The Third Man" (such a movie could never have a "hero," or for that matter even an "antihero"), but (Alida) Valli, as Anna, Harry's grieving lover, is its soul.
		Playing a principled woman who learns that the man she loved was entirely bad, and that even this doesn't matter in the end, Valli has a dignity seldom afforded to women in movies -- her inner life surpasses those of the men around her.
		The sewer chase may be the most famous sequence in "The Third Man," but I've always remembered her cool, solitary walk down the long graveyard road at the movie's end, her deliberate indifference to Holly's offer of comfort.
	www.salon.com /march97/miller970321.html (497 words)

	The Third Man
		Orson Welles could not have imagined that his greatest triumphs; the theatrical coups, the radio fame and the brilliant Citizen Kane, would all be over by the time he was 27.
		J. Hoberman wrote The Third Man is "A fun-house Casablancaset in the broken heart of Europe--an uncanny Vienna populated by a multi-national assortment of rogues and fools." Joseph Cotton plays a writer of pulp Westerns whose noble instincts are out of place in a complex political arena he can't possibly comprehend.
		In his autobiography, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere, Cotten wrote at length about the filming of The Third Man. The night-time illumination of the shattered Viennese squares took a great deal of time, and the cast spent the many hours between dusk and dawn waiting for camera set-ups to be completed.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDThirdMan.htm (488 words)

	The Third Man (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Third Man is a movie that looks and feels not like a movie of the 40s, but like a neo-noir of the late 60s/early 70s.
		On one level The Third Man is a story of betrayal and corruption in a post-war, occupied Vienna.
		So The Third Man is not only a wonderful film noir, but a unique look at the brief time between WWII and the height of the Cold War.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0041959 (702 words)

	THE THIRD MAN
		The porter in Harry's building swears that there was a "third man" that helped carry Harry's body across the street, but all of Harry's "friends" claim that there were only two, Baron Kurtz and Popescu.
		THE THIRD MAN is a classic example of the perfect use of that medium to showcase and evoke mood and emotion with a mere shadow.
		THE THIRD MAN may not be one of the more popular classics, but it should be.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsT/f_3rdman.html (983 words)

	Review: Third Man, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The unquestionable effectiveness of The Third Man is derived primarily from the manner in which the individual components are blended together.
		After all, Citizen Kane was seven years old when The Third Man went into production, and it is likely that many of the techniques and approaches pioneered by Welles in his masterpiece found their way into The Third Man, among many other contemporary motion pictures.
		When he penned The Third Man, Greene was aware of the conventions of film noir, and he adopted them not as cliches mandated by a genre, but as pieces of a larger puzzle.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/third_man.html (1655 words)

	#68: The Third Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today, it's virtually impossible to see The Third Man for the first time and not know about the movie's central twist (which is revealed in both the plot summary and full review, so the spoiler-phobic should beware).
		The man Holly once called a close friend is very much alive, and the mastermind of a horrifying fraud that has replaced good penicillin with bad, resulting in widespread death and disease.
		The Third Man manages the laudable feat of combining popular entertainment with artistic achievement, making it an engaging and compelling viewing experience for nearly any potential audience member, regardless of his or her background and outlook.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /top100/68.html (573 words)

	The Third Man: DVD Review
		The Third Man is a gripping, political noir thriller set in a post-war Vienna divided into four allied-governed sections (France, Russia, Britain, America).
		Though the political context is used mainly as an atmospheric backdrop, it does shade the film’s characterisations, and is a fairly accurate depiction of the international intrigue surrounding postwar Vienna.
		The Third Man has much to remember it by, including Anton Karas’ haunting zither music (which led to a zither craze across Europe and America) and Welles’ indelible impact as the compellingly evil Harry Lime.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/third_man.html (1861 words)

	The Third Eye Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The "Third Eye Man" was first spotted on November 12, 1949, on the campus of the University of South Carolina.
		Of course, the cop who witnessed this "third eye man" was in hysterics, and was never able to convince the other officers of what he saw.
		This bizarre looking man charged at the students with a lead pipe, and suddenly the frat boys realized that this was no prank.
	www.midnet.sc.edu /ghost/ThirdEyeMan.htm (545 words)

	The Third Man and Orson Welles
		The British Film Institute recently spent a year questioning 1,000 movers within the business and The Third Man was the greatest British movie ever, according to a definitive survey of industry insiders.
		Martins develops the ultimate conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, and as he is drawn deeper into postwar intrigue, Martins finds layer under layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out.
		The Third Man was a milestone in Orson Welles' career, as the famed French critic André Bazin noted, because of "the astonishing crystallizing process that took place around Welles through the character of Harry Lime.
	auschwitz.dk /Orson.htm (650 words)

	The Third Man
		Rightly considered a classic of the seventh art, The Third Man is a visual masterpiece that profits from a flamboyant cast, an intriguing story both emotionally and historically as well as a haunting musical score.
		Based on a Graham Greene novel, The Third Man takes place in post-war Vienna; the city is divided into Allied zones (English, French, Russian, etc.) and carries the scars of recent combat.
		In The Third Man, Vienna appears as a character on her own, a kind of wounded monster that corrupts people but preserves her beauty with dignity: the architecture.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/cult/thethirdman.html (675 words)

	The Third Man: Criterion Collection (1949)
		For example, Lawrence of Arabia placed third on the BFI chart but fell to fifth on the AFI one.
		Interestingly, the BFI rated The Third Man as the greatest British film of all-time, but the 1949 classic only ranked as number 57 on the AFI version.
		The Third Man appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	dvdmg.com /thirdman.shtml (2004 words)

	Images - The Third Man
		As in all such contested realms, morality is lax, and illegal trafficking of all kinds pervades the city, from smuggled shoes and tires to watered-down penicillin that kills or mentally maims its victims.
		Major Calloway offers a startlingly different picture of this elusive man as a morally rotten racketeer; he shows a suddenly sobered Martins the effects of Lime’s work in a hospital filled with children dying from the watered-down vaccines that were part of the dead man’s "business enterprises."
		The Third Man is available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in a new transfer with digitally restored image and sound.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue08/reviews/thirdman/text.htm (908 words)

	The Third Man
		The Third Man is a wonderful example of the good that can come from talented people working together in real collaboration.
		The movie is smitten with the symbols and texture of decay, with the craters and mountains of rubble that crosshatched Vienna after the war, with steam and smoke and socket-like windows, with ink-fl leaf-strewn cobblestone streets, and with the swaybacked postures and cracking nerves of used-up and beaten people.
		Even after 50 years, The Third Man remains one of the most robust and intelligent thrillers ever made, an incredibly effective mood piece, and a model of Old School craftsmanship and polish.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/ThirdMan.htm (871 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'The Third Man'
		And as George Orwell notes, if Scobie were the kind of man we are told Scobie is, a man terrified of causing pain, "he would not be an officer in a colonial police force." Orwell, who had been a soldier in Burma, knew what he was talking about.
		The Third Man was a sort of trifle by Greene's lights.
		Prophetically, The Third Man foretells the mistakes America was going to make in the next 50 years, the failure of the best intentions and the success of the worst ones.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.15.99/thirdman-9950.html (1812 words)

	DVD Savant: Savant Review: The Third Man
		In 1949 The Third Man hit its mark because it painted a compelling picture for audiences who couldn't comprehend what the fuss was in Europe.
		In The Third Man, English policeman Trevor Howard walks a tightrope trying to deal with his opposite number, Brodsky, who appears to be harboring criminal Harry Lime in the Russian sector.
		The Third Man's 'romantic' conclusion is almost a parody of the grand finale to Casablanca.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s95third.html (1943 words)

	2.1.7 The Third Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rand is the Third Age incarnation of the Dragon.
		The idea is that the third man will be the end result of this merging, comprising traits of both Rand and LTT, but not truly either man.
		More significantly, one of the items that support the first theory contradict this one: the fact that LTT seems to know the third man, and more specifically, is conscious of him as a separate entity from both Rand and himself.
	linuxmafia.com /jordan/2_nondark/2.1_taveren/2.1.7_thirdman.html (1364 words)

	DEEP FOCUS: The Third Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of all the average-joes in motion pictures, none are as sorry as Holly Martins, Joseph Cotten's character in The Third Man.
		The Third Man has often been referred to as an Orson Welles film, and though Welles does star in it, the film is a cinematic masterpiece that belongs to Carol Reed.
		The Third Man was shot in the ruins of post-World War II Vienna, providing a mesmerizing atmosphere of social decay.
	alumni.imsa.edu /~mitch/titles/third_man.html (606 words)

	Gothamist: The Third Man at Film Forum
		For the next week, Film Forum is showing a restored print of The Third Man, the great 1949 noir film based on the book by Graham Greene.
		The Times' Elvis Mitchell calls The Third Man, "quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made and Roger Ebert says it most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies with its existential loss and weariness knowingness.
		The Third Man was also the inspiration for a Pinky and the Brain episode, The Third Mouse.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/04/09/the_third_man_at_film_forum.php (858 words)

	The Third Man
		The Third Man perfectly illustrates the world it narrates: a post-war, amoral, crossroads checkered Vienna, that is divided into international quadrants administered by the Russians, Americans, British, and French, and populated by a cast of deviant entrepreneurs, racketeers, spies and soldiers eager to prioritise material wealth over ethical principle.
		Nevertheless, a major irony hovering over The Third Man relates to two men who never walked on the set but who can be considered its most important influences, their names rarely mentioned in the annals of cinephiles.
		The Third Man’s two most memorable scenes have his fingerprints all over them: the Ferris wheel scene, where Lime confronts Martins and justifies his illegal actions, and the film’s conclusive chase scene through Vienna’s sewer system, where Lime navigates through a labyrinth of sewer canals and escape routes underneath Vienna and its bravura architecture.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/06/38/third_man.html (1874 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: The Third Man (xhtml)
		Vienna in ``The Third Man'' is a more particular and unmistakable place than almost any other location in the history of the movies; the action fits the city like a hand slipping on a glove.
		The chase sequence in ``The Third Man'' is another joining of the right action with the right location.
		But ``Casablanca'' is bathed in the hope of victory, while ``The Third Man'' already reflects the Cold War years of paranoia, betrayal and the Bomb.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961208/REVIEWS08/401010366/1023 (1466 words)

	Varifrank: The Third Man: Review and Analysis
		"The Third Man" is a great movie for many reasons, first it is the very definition of a “Noir Film” and it is also not just a war movie, but a post-war movie.
		It is this debate that Graham Greene, a man who understood the nature, character and often the result of espionage, wants us to think about.
		His “inside man” Harbin did a reasonably good job, but he got pinched by the authorities (Calloway), and began to work as a double agent to get into Harry’s nefarious network.
	varifrank.com /archives/2004/10/the_third_man_r_1.php (2757 words)

	Willamette Week \| Screen
		The Third Man is an exquisite work of discordant power crammed full of shifting moods.
		A conspiracy emerges--that of the mysterious "third man," who supposedly helped carry Harry's dead body out of view--and the naive Holly is impassioned (or stupid) enough to become entrenched in it.
		Visually, it is an off-kilter intersection of vertical and horizontal lines (some scenes feel framed by the tilt of a man's hat) and a textured variety of high-contrast, low-key lighting techniques.
	www.wweek.com /html/screen090199.html (794 words)

	The Third Man
		The Third Man is one of the jewels in the crown of world cinema.
		She is Anna, the bereaved lover of the apparently deceased Harry Lime, who is being laid to rest in the frozen ground of the crowded Vienna cemetery.
		Harry Lime is the dominating presence, perhaps even the third man. But Holly Martins is convinced there's something fishy about the whole business and, against everyone's wishes, he starts digging.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/film_reviews/article_126.asp?s=1 (959 words)

	JFS The Third Man
		When Cotton discovers a mysterious "third man" was connected to Lime's deal, he decides to stay in Vienna and hunt him down.
		Rubble strewn, bombed out Vienna, ruined by six years of war, cigarettes the main currency, dark, shabby, a hint of danger everywhere, is perfectly evoked by this wonderful noir movie, backed by the haunting music of the Karas zither.
		I know this because as a young soldier on security duties I served in Vienna in 1948 which was the main filming year of The Third Man.
	www.mnlg.com /jfs/archive_R/00_thirdm.html (205 words)

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