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...Third Man. Intrigue in postwar Vienna, by Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME...
...Third Man. Intrigue in postwar Vienna, by Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME...
...clear up his friend's death and reputation, goes about it with an ingenuous bravado that soon turns him from hunter into hunted. Along the way he becomes involved with a sardonic major of the British military police (Trevor Howard) who had hunted his friend, a melancholy actress (Valli) who had loved him, and, finally, the villain (Orson Welles), a gladhanding, cynical American...
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...
...weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...