Todays Monday matinee is one of my favourite films..The 1949 film of Graham Greenes novel The Third Man directed byCarol Reed and starring Orson Welles,Joseph Cotten,Alisa Vali,Trevor Howard,Bernard Lee and Wilfred Hyde-White.A simple story of Harry Limes school friend Holly Martins( Cotten) who is out of work who travels to post war Vienna on the promise of a job,only to find Lime(Welles),has been killed in a road accident.Talking to Limes friends he soon discovers nothing is what it seems and he is determined to find out the truth about Harry Lime.
From the opening titles throughout the film there is the Harry Lime theme by composer Anton Karas.The film is on three 1600 reels with no splices and all leaders and tails intact.It is in black and white and my print has excellent sound and the condition of the print I would describe as very good.
As I say one of my favourite films and if you have not seen it I recommend it .It certainly stands the test of time the story and character’s have lost nothing over the years.
A few pics:
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For some reason the pics have gone a bit strange but you get the drift.

Looks great Gwyn, what a classic film, looks a nice print, Mark

Thank you Mark,yes this print is like new,must admit I was lucky to get this one in its condition I was worried when I bought it that because of its possible age it would be a mess.

A great title to have on 16 Gywn,
we this titles as a feature but ours is the Walton 12 reeler from years ago reviewed here,

The Third Man. Full Feature.

It's always good to watch a real classic and i really do like Swiss cuckoo clock speech, its is so true,

"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and blood-shed; but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"