{"id":2800,"date":"2010-10-26T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2010-10-26T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:15:46","slug":"the-third-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2800","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Third Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Third-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2801 aligncenter\" title=\"The Third Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Third-Man-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uploads.theatreaficionado.com\/content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Third-Man-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/uploads.theatreaficionado.com\/content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Third-Man.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carol_Reed\">Carol Reed<\/a> won an Oscar for the 1968 film adaptation of <em>Oliver! <\/em>But for my money, I think if there&#8217;s a film for which he deserved to win it was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041959\/\">The Third Man<\/a>. <\/em>(Reed did win the 1949 Palm D&#8217;Or for this noir classic).<em> <\/em>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_Greene\">Graham Greene<\/a>, it&#8217;s an astounding cold war suspense thriller starring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Cotten\">Joseph Cotten<\/a> as hack American writer Holly Martins who arrives in Vienna to work for his childhood friend Harry Lime. Upon his arrival, he learns that Lime is dead. There&#8217;s something suspicious about the whole affair and Martins sets about getting to the bottom of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>To say I love this movie would be an understatement. If I had to pick a favorite, this would probably be it. Reed&#8217;s direction is superlative; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Krasker\">Robert Krasker<\/a> won an Oscar for his master class in cinematography. Then there&#8217;s the musical score, which is one of the most unusual and most effective scores ever written for a film. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anton_Karas\">Anton Karas<\/a> (with whom I share a birthday) composed the theme using only the zither. The theme actually became a pop hit and was given a fair amount of radio play in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those films that if I stumble upon it on TV, I watch it through to the end. It&#8217;s also the only film to make the AFI and BFI 100 movies of all time. If I was forced to pick a favorite film of all time, this would probably be it.<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British director Carol Reed won an Oscar for the 1968 film adaptation of Oliver! But for my money, I think if there&#8217;s a film for which he deserved to win it was The Third Man. (Reed did win the 1949 Palm D&#8217;Or for this noir classic). Written by Graham Greene, it&#8217;s an astounding cold war &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Third Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2041,1063,1062,2427,1793],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-film","tag-graham-greene","tag-joseph-cotten","tag-orson-welles","tag-the-third-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}