The Third Man

…is arguably Reed’s greatest film, The Third Man (1949), a Cold War thriller starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. The film won first prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and Reed was nominated for best director at the Academy Awards. Because of the strength and reputation of Reed’s films of…

…also directed by Hitchcock; and The Third Man (1949), a highly acclaimed thriller coproduced by Alexander Korda and directed by Carol Reed. Also notable were Since You Went Away (1944), Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and A Farewell to Arms (1957), all of which starred

…made this a trademark (The Third Man, 1949).

…naive writer in Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949). Cotten’s other memorable roles included a shell-shocked veteran in I’ll Be Seeing You (1944), a serious Scotland Yard detective in Gaslight (1944), and the steady friend of a soldier’s wife in Since You Went Away (1944). In Love Letters (1945), he…

…in such motion pictures as The Third Man (1949), The Heart of the Matter (1953), The Key (1958), for which he won a British Academy Award, and Sons and Lovers (1960). In his later years he often portrayed a stiff-necked English military officer, notably in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962),…

…famously Carol Reed’s classic thriller The Third Man (1949), as the amoral Harry Lime. Welles would spend much of the next 25 years in Europe.