The Third Man (1949) ends with a dramatic climax as the protagonist, Holly Martins, confronts his friend Harry Lime, who has been revealed to be a criminal. After a tense confrontation, Harry is killed in a shootout with police, and Holly is left to contemplate the consequences of
The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. Set in post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the film centres on American writer Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that he has died. Martins stays in Vienna to investigate Lime's death, becoming infatuated with Lime's girlfriend Anna Schmidt (Valli).