The Third Man

Directed by Carol Reed

Written by Graham Green

Cast: Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Orson Welles as Harry Lime, Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt, Trevor Howard as Major Calloway, Bernard Lee as Sgt. Paine

Released 1949

Holly Martins is a pulp Western writer in need of a job. He gets an offer for one in Vienna from his old friend Harry Lime. Arriving there he learns that Lime was killed in a street accident. Not trusting the official story, he decides to investigate the death himself.