The third man [blu-ray] / Rialto Pictures presents a Carol Reed film ; Canal+ Image UK LTD. ; directed by Carol Reed ; story and screenply by Graham Greene.
Format:
[blu-ray] /
Edition:
Blu-ray ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)
THIS BLU-RAY DISC WILL NOT PLAY IN STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Title from disc. Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Liner notes by Luc Sante. Motion picture originally released in 1949 ; 2008 DVD release. Includes special features: video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; two audio commentaries, one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and director Tony Gilroy and the other by film scholar Dana Polan ; abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke ; Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the making of the film; "Graham Green: The Haunted Man," an hour-long 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series featuring a rare interview with the novelist ; Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew ; The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of the series The Lives of Harry Lime, written and performed by Orson Wells, and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man ; illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer ; actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version ; archival footage of postwar Vienna ; A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film ; a booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante.
Summary:
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
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