Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
- staged death
- black market
- cemetery
- investigation
- soviet military
- prater
- british army
- austria
- cover-up
- film noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Paul Hörbiger — Karl the Porter
- Ernst Deutsch — 'Baron' Kurtz
- Erich Ponto — Dr. Winkel
- Siegfried Breuer — Popescu
- Hedwig Bleibtreu — Anna's Landlady
- Bernard Lee — Sergeant Paine
- Wilfrid Hyde-White — Crabbin
- Alexis Chesnakov — Col. Brodsky the Russian Liaison Officer (uncredited)
- Thomas Gallagher — Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Herbert Halbik — Hänsel the Little Boy with Ball (uncredited)
- Hannah Norbert — Actress at Josefstadt Theater (uncredited)
- Directed
- Carol Reed
- Written
- Graham Greene
Production
- Studio
- London Films Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
