Erik Martin, who marked the anniversaries of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, with a pair of informative podcasts is back.
Cue zither music.
The latest Cineversary podcast looks at The Third Man, the Carol Reed post-war classic starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Written by Graham Greene, The Third Man stars Cotten as Holly Martins, an American writer of Westerns, who arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Welles). On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident. Further, military police chief Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) informs him that Lime was a black marketer wanted by the police. Alida Valli and Bernard Lee co-star.
The film was honored with an Academy Award, British Film Academy Award and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Joining Martin for the Cineversary podcast are authors Charles Drazin (In Search of The Third Man) and David Thomson (Rosebud).
Check it out at https://tinyurl.com/cineversarythirdman
The Third Man marks its 75th anniversary this year with a nationwide re-release by Rialto Pictures.
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