Il terzo uomo

Titolo originale: The Third Man
Regia: Carol Reed |
Anno: 1949
Origine: United Kingdom |
Generi: Thriller Mistero
Tag: staged death | black market | cemetery | investigation | soviet military | prater | british army | austria | cover-up | film noir | black and white | foot chase | vienna, austria | sewer | missing person | post world war ii | ferris wheel | grim | penicillin | forged passport | ominous |
Cast: Joseph Cotten | Alida Valli | Trevor Howard | Orson Welles | Paul Hörbiger | Ernst Deutsch | Erich Ponto | Siegfried Breuer | Hedwig Bleibtreu | Bernard Lee | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Alexis Chesnakov | Thomas Gallagher | Herbert Halbik | Hannah Norbert | Eric Pohlmann | Carol Reed | Annie Rosar | Frederick Schrecker | Hugo Schuster | Karl Stepanek | Theodore Gottlieb | Jenny Werner | Reed De Rouen | Geoffrey Keen | Robert Brown |

Nel 1946 in una Vienna devastata dalla guerra e divisa in quattro zone di occupazione, lo scrittore americano di western Holly Martins (Cotten) assiste ai funerali dell'amico Harry Lime (Welles), ma è veramente morto? Inseguimento finale nelle fogne della città.

Errori

When Holly Martins first encounters Harry Lime across the street in a darkened doorway, he doesn't k [...] D
In two instances, shadows caused by back lighting don't match the scene. When the little boy is foll [...] D
As Martins arrives at the funeral, he asks Maj. Calloway who the funeral is for. A black tombstone i [...] D
When Calloway takes Martins for a drink, shortly after their first meeting, Martins rests his head a [...] D
In the sewer, before putting his fingers through the grate, Harry Lime holds the stair's supporting [...] D
In the two separate back projection shots of Calloway, Martins and Paine, supposedly traveling in a [...] D
When Calloway and the police stand waiting for Harry to arrive at the station, an elderly balloon ma [...] D
Holly Martins quizzes Popescu about a man named Joseph Harbin but he only learns of Harbin's existen [...] D
After Calloway has shown Martins the evidence against Lime, Calloway picks up the phone. We hear his [...] D
It is unthinkable that a major would say to a colonel (who outranks him): 'What is it, Brodsky?' D
The policemen who come to arrest Anna change between shots. In dialogue scenes the British policeman [...] D
Upon arriving in Vienna, Martins says that he will be staying with Lime at Stiftgasse 15, which is i [...] D
Martins incorrectly calls Dr. Winkel "Winkel" instead of the correct "Vinkel", even though he has on [...] D
Three cats were used for Harry Lime's only loved cat, but all three cats were different sizes and co [...] D
The line about the cuckoo clock being Switzerland's only contribution to culture is factually incorr [...] D
When Anna is taken into custody in Lime's apartment, she is sleeping with the large bedroom windows [...] D
In the Ferris-wheel scene, Martins' position changes just after Lime says "That jail's in another zo [...] D
The position of Anna's neck ribbon changes, when she and Holly first talk. D
When Calloway and Martins are getting into Calloway's Jeep near the end of the film, Martin asks wha [...] D
The dog and the book briefly change between Kurtz' two hands when he is being shown where Lime was h [...] D
After Harry's funeral, in the Zentralfriedhof, Anna goes into the straight alley. Her shadow is on t [...] D
When Holly and Anna hastily leave the scene of the death of the porter, they are at the site of Harr [...] D
Harry Lime's sewer scenes were shot in two locations--at a studio in the UK and on location undergro [...] D