Starting
75th Anniversary Screening in 35mm - Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Poster
Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway), Bernard Lee (Sergeant Paine), Paul Hörbiger (Porter), Siegfried Breuer (Popescu), Erich Ponto (Dr. Winkel), Ernst Deutsch ('Baron' Kurtz)
Plot Outline
An American pulp writer arrives in Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
"Of all the movies I have seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies." - Roger Ebert
Carol Reed's classic thriller set in postwar Vienna, once voted "Best British film ever made" by the British Film Institute
Genre
Thriller, Mystery
Runtime
104 minutes
Production country
UK
Released
1949