The Third Man
1949 | Noir | UK | Directed by Carol Reed
Overview
Postwar Vienna, divided zones, a zither score, and Orson Welles delivering the cuckoo clock speech from a ferris wheel. Joseph Cotten hunts the truth about his dead friend Harry Lime, a black marketeer selling diluted penicillin. Canted angles and Robert Krasker shadows defined the noir look. The greatest British film of the 1940s on most ballots.
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