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Director: Carol Reed
Studio: Criterion Collection
Rating: Unrated
Genre: / Mystery / Thriller
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Running Time: 1 hr. 33 mins.
SYNOPSIS:
SPECIAL FEATURES
· Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
· Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by by film scholar Dana Polan
· Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
· Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
· "Graham Greene: The Hunted 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 Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles, 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 Luc Sante
A writer of westerns arrives in post war Vienna after an invitation from an old school friend. But he finds that his friend has been killed in a strange accident.