Movie #70: The Third Man

Movie #: 70
Movie Title: The Third Man
Year Released: 1949

Director: Carol Reed
Notable Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard

Short Description: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #74
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #21
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #27



Date Watched: 8/7/2016

Grade: 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory)

Rationale: The plot of a man trying to uncover the truth regarding his friend's death and discovering it was faked so his friend could go off the grid and continue his illegal activity unnoticed sounds like something that should work well, and it did to a point, but the pacing of The Third Man was slow enough that I was bored even with an interesting sounding plot. By the time the big reveal comes that his friend isn't dead, I didn't care and was counting the minutes that were left.