The Third Man is a classic 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles. Set in post-WWII Vienna, the film follows Holly Martins, an American writer who arrives in the city to meet his
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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).