Director : Carol Reed
Release Date : 3 September 1949 (UK)
Genre : Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt (as Valli), Orson Welles as Harry Lime, Trevor Howard as Major Calloway, Bernard Lee as Sergeant Paine, Paul Hörbiger as Harry’s Porter (as Paul Hoerbiger), Ernst Deutsch as ‘Baron’ Kurtz, Siegfried Breuer as Popescu, Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin, Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna’s Old Landlady
Plot : Arriving inside Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his colleague Harry Lime, who has invited him, latterly passed away inside a automobile accident.
Run Time : 104 min | USA:93 min
Country : UK
MPAA :
Language : English | German | Russian
Filming Locations : Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK
Company : London Film Productions
Trivia : Once he lastly dawned inside Vienna, Orson Welles refused to show different scenes inside the sewers. Due to his protests, different kinds copying the Vienna sewers tried and true to troth generated by Alexander Korda on sound-stages cooperate with inside England.
Goofs : Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Calloway has shown Martins the sign opposed to Lime, Calloway picks unsleeping the phone. We be conscious of his line, “Get me Police headquarters,” on the varied hand we don’t notice his lips move.
Tag Lines : Carol Reed’s Classic Thriller
You’ve never met anyone like him! (from reissue print ad)
He’ll have you in a dither with his zither! (from reissue print)
Hunted by men…Sought by WOMEN!
HUNTED…By a thousand men! Haunted…By a lovely girl!
Plot Summary : An out of operate mush fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives inside a work struggle Vienna divided into sectors by the triumphant allies, with where a shortage of stockpile has pilot to a budding black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has issued him a job, main to ascertain that Lime has freshly kicked the bucket inside a strange transactions accident. From dropping a line to Lime’s friends with associates Martins presently notices that miscelanneous of the stories are inconsistent, with determines to ascertain anything in actuality followed to Harry Lime.
An American paste person responsible arrives inside post-WWII Vienna major to consider that the buddy who waited for the purpose that him is murdered less than puzzling circumstances. The the next riddle entangles him inside his friend’s engagement inside the black market, in addition to the multinational police, in addition to in addition to his Czech girlfriend.
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