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"The Third Man"
1949
Directed by Carol Reed

Graham Greene wrote the script for Carol Reed's classic film about an American pulp fiction writer's search for the mysterious and enigmatic war profiteer Harry Lime (a wonderful Orson Welles) in post-war Vienna. The film welds German expressionism, British classicism and American B-movie energy and motion. Anton Karas's haunting zither score is nearly as well known as Welles's extraordinary entrance. With Joseph Cotton, Trevor Howard and Bernard Lee. Award-winning cinematography by Robert Krasker. Selected as the Favorite British Film of the 20th Century in a 1999 British Film Institute survey.  104 minutes.