| Release Date: | Feb 1950 |
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| Genres: | Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir |
| Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
| Cast: | Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime) Trevor Howard (Major Calloway) Bernard Lee (Sergeant Paine) Paul Hörbiger (Harry's Porter (as Paul Hoerbiger)) Ernst Deutsch ('Baron' Kurtz) Siegfried Breuer (Popescu) Erich Ponto (Dr. Winkel) Wilfrid Hyde-White (Crabbin) Hedwig Bleibtreu (Anna's Old Landlady) |
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
