An unemployed pulp-fiction novelist, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), travels to post-WWII Vienna, where he accepts a job offer from his former classmate, Harry Lime (Orson Welles). When Harry is a no-show at the train station, Holly begins to get suspicious about his whereabouts. Holly discovers his classmate was involved in a traffic accident prior to his arrival. Not convinced that his death was a freak accident, Holly digs through the rubble of Vienna and the lies of friends to find the truth about what really happened to Harry Lime.
Director: | Carol Reed |
Studio: | London Film Productions |
Producer(s): | Carol Reed, Hugh Perceval, Alexander Korda, David Selznick |
Cast: | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Alida Valli, Paul Hoerbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Erich Ponto, Siegfried Breuer, Hedwig Bleibtreu |
Writer(s): | Graham Greene |