Plot: 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.
Runtime: 104 mins
Release Date: 30 Aug 1949
Starcast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Nelly Arno, Jack Arrow, Harold Ayer, Harry Belcher, Leo Bieber, Paul Birch, Martin Boddey, Madge Brindley, Robert Brown, Ray Browne, Paul Carpenter, Marie-Louise Charlier, Alexis Chesnakov, Guy De Monceau, Reed De Rouen, Jack Faint, Peter Fontaine, Thomas Gallagher, Michael Godfrey, Vernon Greeves, Herbert Halbik, Paul Hardtmuth, Walter Hertner, Lily Kann, Geoffrey Keen, Brookes Kyle, Martin Miller, Hannah Norbert, Eric Pohlmann, Carol Reed, Annie Rosar, Frederick Schreicker, Hugo Schuster, Karel Stepanek, Gordon Tanner, Ernst Ulman, Helga Wahlrow, Jenny Werner,
Director(s): Carol Reed
Genre: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, ,
Tags: funeral, betrayal, writer
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
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IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 (193253 votes)
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