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The Third Man

June 2023

  • Joseph Fiennes, centre, as Gareth Southgate in Dear England at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Dear England; The Pillowman; The Third Man – review

  • What a racketeer … the cast of The Third Man: A Musical Thriller, Menier Chocolate Factory, London.

    The Third Man: A Musical Thriller review – atmospheric and eccentric version of classic noir

September 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: The Crucible; Cy Twombly; The Goldfinch; Alma; The Last Tree

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

  • Orson Welles.

    The Third Man review – torn between heaven and hell, a classic noir

  • The original disaster capitalist ... Orson Welles in The Third Man.

    Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit

  • Carol Reed (director), Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Peggy McClafferty (script supervisor)

    The Third Man: behind the scenes of the film noir masterpiece – in pictures

February 2016

  • Vienna opera house

    Shortcuts
    Five things to do in Vienna, the world’s most liveable city

    The Austrian capital officially offers the highest quality of life on the planet. Even if you don’t live there, here’s how to make the most of a visit

August 2015

  • Orson Welles in The Third Man: 'he dominates the film both by his presence and his absence'.

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Third Man review – a near-perfect work

    A new print does full justice to Carol Reed’s noir masterpiece

May 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for The Third Man

    The Third Man: Orson Welles on the run in Carol Reed's classic - video trailer

    Watch the trailer for Carol Reed's film noir classic, which stars Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist searching post-war Vienna for a missing friend, played by Orson Welles

October 2014

  • Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in Collateral.

    Street lights, camera, action: how LEDs are changing the look of films

    As cities modernise their lighting systems, reduce glare and replace neon with LED, movies will become time capsules showing how our cities used to glow. Here are five of the best

August 2014

  • The Third Man

    My favourite city film is … The Third Man

    As part of the Barbican’s City Visions series, we’re asking you to pick the best city film – with the winner to get a special Guardian Cities screening. Henry Barnes hears the dark heart of The Third Man

June 2014

  • Composite of Xan Brooks and Joseph Cotton from the Third Man

    Role model
    Why I'd like to be … Joseph Cotten in The Third Man

    Continuing our series in which writers reveal which movie stars and characters they emulate, Xan Brooks tells us why Joseph Cotten in The Third Man was, for him, the king of the underdogs – a pack which also includes James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story

December 2006

  • The Third Man's view of Vienna

    "It's a document of Vienna," says Gerhard Strassgschwandtner, proudly, as he shows me around his Third Man Museum. It's spread across eight rooms below the Viennese apartment where he lives, and the place is overflowing with Third Man ephemera.

August 2006

  • The Third Man

  • The Third Man

February 2003

  • Among the ruins of Vienna

    The Third Man reviewed in the Guardian, September 3, 1949

March 2000

  • Derek Malcolm's century of film
    Carol Reed: The Third Man

    There are at least two extraordinary sequences - the first showdown between Lime and Martins on the slowly revolving ferris wheel of an almost deserted fairground, and the chase through the sewers of Vienna

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