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The Third Man [1949]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Wilfrid Hyde White
directed by Carol Reed

Features:

• Box set
• PAL
• Special Edition

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• What's on Disc 2?
  Does anybody know what is on Disc 2? I suspect there might be some extras and I am hoping one of which is the documentary Shadowing the Third Man, but would like to know for sure before I buy it. Shame that Amazon is sometimes so lax about product descriptions.
  I have watched this film five or six times on an old VHS version and every time I watch it, I discover something new and enthralling. The film is superb, bigger than life and definitely one of the greatest ever made!

• Very Noir.
  The Third Man.......classic film, not only of the noir genre but a blueprint for story telling in the celluloid format.
  As a movie I felt underwelmed by the third man, feeling it all a little contrived and even cliched.
  When asked to appreciate the significance of the setting and cinematography....yes, very effective tools in enhancing the aesthetic of the narrative. But hardly engendering any sense of empathy for the characters. Orson Well's turn as Harry Lime probably one of the most... more info

• A slice of Lime.
  The DVD cover sums this film up brilliantly (even giving away the twist!) with the angled black and white image. The wonky camera work was dismissed by many at the time, but in retrospect it reflects the feel of disorientation Holly Martins must feel when in an unfamiliar place, with no money, and discovering varying accounts of his friends death - a friend he was due be staying with. The slanted shots also mirror the broken feel of Vienna, a beautiful city ravaged by the Second World War and now home to... more info

• What can you say?
  Call me a heathen (or whatever), but I have never quite got Citizen Kane. Yes it 's a landmark film, but is it really that good?
  The Third Man is that good. Tight direction, an omnipotent Wells as Harry Lime, a haunted post-WWII city in ruins and the repetitive melody of the zither, all combine to create a superb masterpiece.
  For me, the real star was Trevor Howard as Major Calloway. Wells was of course enigmatic and Vienna was the perfect backdrop to a bankrupt Germanic landscape. Cotten as Holly... more info

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