June Film Club #1

To kick off our Summer Series: Film Noir, we will be watching Carol Reed's The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt, Orson Welles as Harry Lime and Trevor Howard as Major Calloway. Set in post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the film centres on American writer Holly Martins, who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime, only to learn that he has died. Martins stays in Vienna to investigate Lime's death, becoming infatuated with Lime's girlfriend Anna Schmidt.

It currently holds a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert who awarded it 4/4 stars, adding it to his list of The Great Movies, said this in his review, "The Third Man reflects the optimism of Americans and the bone-weariness of Europe after the war. It’s a story about grownups and children: Adults like Calloway, who has seen at first hand the results of Lime’s crimes, and children like the trusting Holly, who believes in the simplified good and evil of his Western novels. Of all the movies I have seen, this one most completely embodies the romance of going to the movies."

We will be meeting Thursday, June 18 at 5:30 pm.

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yyDEDGlr0

Hope to see you there!