IMPORT DVD FROM SOUTH KOREA - LANGUAGE: ENGLISH - OPTIONAL SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, KOREAN, or NONE - NTSC REGION FREE (PLAYS ON ALL STANDARD US DVD PLAYERS) - ENGLISH AND KOREAN TEXT ON FRONT AND BACK - One of British cinema's most enduring and atmospheric thrillers. A genuine and endlessly rewatchable classic. Orson Welles's Harry Lime steals the show(and anything else he can get his hands on) in this stunning noir set amid the ruins of post-War Vienna,and featuring perhaps the most memorable chase sequence in cinema Writer Graham Greene enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with film,but nothing matched this sly noir-a great British thriller that united Greene with director Reed, and which enabled Orson welles to deliver cinema's single most memorable reference to Switzerland. Holly Martins(Cotten) is a hack writer arriving in Vienna shortly after the end of WWII. He plans to meet up with his old friend,Harry Lime, but discovers that he has recently been killed in a road accident. He is told a few home truths about his old chum by a British Army officer (Howard) and from Lime's distraught girlfriend (Valli), and focuses his own energies on trying to discover the identity of the third man who helped carry Lime's body from the street. In fact it's this creeping sense of corruption and moral ambiguity that makes the film so fascinating. It was producer Korda's idea to set the action in a divided Vienna, and, in the course of Greene's research, he happened upon the city's thriving post-War trade in black-market penicillin, and the illicit use of the city's sewer network. The film's success was sealed by Welles's film-stealing extended cameo, Oscar-winning photography of Krasker, and the instantly evocative zither score by Anton Karas, who Reed discovered while scouting locations in Vienna.
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