The famous, classic film noir with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. 1949. Director: Carol Reed.
Holly Martin (Joseph Cotten) arrives to a ruined Vienna to meet an old friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles) who's offered him a job. When he comes to Lime's apartment he hears that Lime has been killed. Chocked, he attends the funural of his friend.
Holly talks to some people about the death of his friend, and he learns that someone pulled him away from the street where he was killed, to the side. Baron Kurtz (Ernst Deutsch) tells Holly that he and Popescu (Siegfried Breuer) were the people to move Lime's wounded body. Holly also speaks with Lime's girlfriend Anna (Alida Valli) and becomes suspicious. Was the death of Harry Lime really an accident?
The porter at Lime's apartman tells Holly that there were a third man there, to help carrying Lime's body. Holly desides that he to any price has to find out the truth. Who is this third man? What's the truth about Lime's death?
This film is good, but I must say that even though the music itself is good, it doesn't fit in here. It's to glad, the movie is a film noir, dark and miserable. The shadows are very cool and that's a great thing about this movie. The actors except for Cotten and Welles, are not so very weel known. Bernard Lee who's in many peoples eyes M in many Bond films, is acting in this film in a smaller part.
I didn't really get everything in the film, and that's because not everything is so very well explained. But the cinematography is so extremely good that you can see the film for that reason only. The film recieved an Academy Award for its cinematography, and I can really understand why.
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