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Film · 1949

The Third Man

Carol Reed

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The Third Man
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Lets the after-hours thread settle into a deeper film form.

A pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna to find his friend dead — or so he's told. Carol Reed's noir masterwork, with Orson Welles in the shadows.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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A pulp writer arrives in postwar Vienna to find his friend dead — or so he's told. Carol Reed's noir masterwork, with Orson Welles in the shadows.

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