Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even The Third Man's flaws are largely the product of its brilliance. To build atmosphere, Reed has filmed much of the picture with the camera slightly askew; after a while, the angle calls too much attention to itself. He has a way of emptying the streets at his convenience and peopling them suddenly when it suits him., And toward the end, he stages a chase through the city's sewers which, for all its self-sustaining excitement, comes after the story's major suspense has been resolved. But these are minor faults in the work...
...Director Reed's hands, a shot of a body floating in the Danube tells a story of its own, a shot of a cat licking a man's shoe becomes a chilling premonition of shock. Reed gets a grotesquely comic sequence out of an eerie four-year-old boy leading a street crowd in pursuit of Gotten while the accompanying zither jangles like a nickelodeon piano. At every turn, he exploits the hulking shadows and wet, back-lighted cobblestones of Vienna at night. Cameraman Robert (Odd Man Out) Krasker gives beautiful expression to Reed's photogenic tricks...
...Director Reed handles his actors as expertly as his story. Valli's playing of a girl numbed with loyal, grieving love is just right. Gotten and Howard fill out every corner of their characterizations; and a supporting cast of excellent European actors with new faces keeps the stars on their toes. The ultimate proof of Reed's powers as a director: he has managed to get a temperate, first-rate performance out of Orson Welles...
...Played by Viennese Anton Karas, a Carol Reed protege, whose recordings from the score quickly became bestsellers in British music shops (TIME...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigue; with Ralph Richardson (TIME, April...