The Third Man (1949)
Carol ReedIn postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Cast
| Name | Character | |
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Joseph Cotten | Holly Martins |
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Alida Valli | Anna Schmidt |
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Trevor Howard | Major Calloway |
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Orson Welles | Harry Lime |
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Paul Hörbiger | Karl the Porter |
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Ernst Deutsch | 'Baron' Kurtz |
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Erich Ponto | Dr. Winkel |
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Siegfried Breuer | Popescu |
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Hedwig Bleibtreu | Anna's Landlady |
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Bernard Lee | Sergeant Paine |
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Wilfrid Hyde-White | Crabbin |
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Alexis Chesnakov | Col. Brodsky the Russian Liaison Officer (uncredited) |
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Thomas Gallagher | Taxi Driver (uncredited) |
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Herbert Halbik | Hänsel the Little Boy with Ball (uncredited) |
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Hannah Norbert | Actress at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited) |
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Eric Pohlmann | Waiter at Smolka's (uncredited) |
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Carol Reed | UK Version's Opening Narrator (uncredited) |
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Annie Rosar | The Porter's Wife (uncredited) |
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Frederick Schrecker | Hansel's Father (uncredited) |
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Hugo Schuster | Waiter (uncredited) |
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Karl Stepanek | Actor at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited) |
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Theodore Gottlieb | Man on Street (uncredited) |
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Jenny Werner | Dr. Winkel's Maid Hilde (uncredited) |
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Reed De Rouen | American Military Policeman(uncredited) |
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Geoffrey Keen | British Military Policeman (uncredited) |
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Robert Brown | Britush Military Policeman in Sewer Chase (uncredited) |