The Third Man Museum in Vienna has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the 15-year-old attraction to temporarily close its doors due to health concerns. Gerhard Strassgschwandtner and Karin Höfler note that the museum relies heavily on tourism for it to tell the story of the classic Carol Reed film starring Joseph […]
To mark the 70th anniversary of Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man, StudioCanal has reissued in Europe its limited edition four-disc set from 2015. The first two discs include the 4K restoration of the Graham Greene-penned movie, starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, along with several featurettes on PAL format DVD. The restored film and […]
StudioCanal UK announced today it will re-release Carol Reed’s The Third Man to British theaters next month to mark the classic movie’s 70th anniversary. It was teased by StudioCanal on social media with the tweet, “Hunted by men, sought by women — it’s time to meet The Third Man once more.” A gala event is […]
One of the projects getting a boost at San Diego Comic Con International this past week was The Prague Coup, based on Graham Greene’s writing of the classic film The Third Man. London-based Titan Comics will release the graphic novel, written by screenwriter Jean-Luc Fromental, with Miles Hyman co-writing and illustrating on December 12. The Prague Coup was […]
Harry Lime was first depicted by Orson Welles in “The Third Man.”
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The first-ever 4K digital restoration of Carol Reed’s The Third Man, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 4, will soon be shown in the U.S. The post-World War II film, which stars Joseph Cotten, Valli and Orson Welles, will kick off a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum on June 26. The […]
Orson Welles’ last Hollywood studio film and one of his best known acting performances each earned a spot on The Guardian’s recent list of the 10 best film noir movies ever made. “Touch of Evil,” directed by Welles for Universal Studios in 1958, and Director Carol Reed’s “The Third Man,” co-starring Welles as the corrupt […]
Ready for a Harry Lime who sings and dances? The Austrian production company Vereinigte Buehnen Wien has secured the rights to make the first musical version of the 1949 movie “The Third Man,” which starred Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. The German-language musical is expected to premiere in 2016, according to the BBC. The rights […]
Milan Records will release a digitally remastered edition of the score for Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles on February 5. According the label, “The pioneering original musical score, composed by Viennese musician Anton Karas, was only performed on the zither. The harrowing sound perfectly complementing this dark classic.” Karas’ […]
The East Village’s latest bar is the kind of watering hole where would-be Holly Martins can order up a Harry Lime while zither music plays in their head. Located at 116 Avenue C near 7th Street in the Big Apple, The Third Man takes its name from the classic 1949 Carol Reed thriller starring Orson […]
David Stewart White recently penned a splendid travel feature for The Washington Post on the Third Man Museum in Vienna. The diminutive museum is tucked away on a residential side street in Vienna’s Margareten neighborhood. It boasts some 2,000 artifacts across 13 rooms. The museum is a consuming passion of Gerhard Strassgschwandtner, who is still […]