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It stars Joseph Cotten, Valli Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The film takes place in post World War II Vienna. It centres on Holly Martins, an American who is given a job in Vienna by his friend Harry Lime, but when Holly arrives in Vienna he gets the news that Lime is dead. Martins then meets with Limes acquaintances in an attempt to investigate what he considers a suspicious death. The atmospheric use of black and white expressionistcinematography by Robert Krasker, with harsh lighting and distorted Dutch angle camera technique, is a major feature of The Third Man. Combined with the iconic theme music, seedy locations and acclaimed performances from the cast, the style evokes the atmosphere of an exhausted, cynical, post war Vienna at the start of the Cold War. Sonny With A Chance Full Episodes Season 2 Episode 11. Greene wrote the novella of the same name as preparation for the screenplay. Anton Karas wrote and performed the score, which featured only the zither. The title music The Third Man Theme topped the international music charts in 1. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time, celebrated for its acting, musical score and atmospheric cinematography. In 1. British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. In 2. 01. 7 a poll of 1. Time Out magazine saw it ranked the second best British film ever. Opportunistic racketeering thrives in a damaged and impoverished Allied occupied. Vienna, which is divided into four sectors, each controlled by one of the occupying forces American, British, French, and Soviet. These powers share the duties of law enforcement in the city. American pulp. Western writer Holly Martins Joseph Cotten comes to the city seeking his childhood friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job. Upon arrival he discovers that Lime was killed just hours earlier by a speeding truck while crossing the street. Martins attends Limes funeral, where he meets two British Army Police Sergeant Paine Bernard Lee, a fan of Martins pulp novels and his superior, Major Calloway Trevor Howard, who says Lime was a criminal and suggests Martins leave town. An official of the British occupying forces Wilfrid Hyde White subsequently approaches Martins, requesting that he give a lecture and offering to pay for his lodging. Viewing this as an opportunity to clear his friends name, Martins decides to remain in Vienna. He receives an invitation to meet from Limes friend, Baron Kurtz Ernst Deutsch, who tells Martins that he, along with another friend, Popescu Siegfried Breuer, carried Lime to the side of the street after the accident. Before dying, according to Kurtz, Lime asked Kurtz and Popescu to take care of Martins and Anna Schmidt Alida Valli, Limes actress girlfriend. Hoping to gather more information, Martins goes to see Anna at her theatre, where she suggests in passing that Harrys death may not have been accidental. She then accompanies Martins to question the porter at Limes apartment building. The porter claims Lime was killed immediately and could not have given any instructions to his friends before dying. He also states that Kurtz and Popescu did not move the body out of the street alone, but were helped by a third man. Martins berates him for not being more forthcoming with the police about what he knows. Concerned for his familys safety, the porter indignantly tells Martins not to involve him. Shortly afterwards the police, searching Annas flat for evidence, find and confiscate her forged passport and detain her. Anna tells Martins that she is of Czechoslovak nationality and will be deported from Austria by the Russian occupying forces if discovered. Martins visits Limes medical adviser, Dr. Winkel Erich Ponto, who says that he arrived at the accident after Lime was dead, and only two men were present. Later, the porter secretly offers Martins more information but is murdered before their arranged meeting. When Martins arrives, unaware of the murder, a young boy recognizes him as having argued with the porter earlier and points this out to the gathering bystanders, who become hostile, and then mob like. Escaping from them, Martins returns to the hotel, and a cab whisks him away. He fears it is taking him to his death, but takes him to the book club. With no lecture prepared, he stumbles until Popescu, in the audience, asks him about his next book. Martins replies that it will be called The Third Man, a murder story inspired by facts. Popescu tells Martins that he should stick to fiction. Martins sees two thugs approaching and flees. Calloway again advises Martins to leave Vienna, but Martins refuses and demands that Limes death be investigated. Watch Stray Bullets Download Full there. Calloway reluctantly reveals that Lime had been stealing penicillin from military hospitals, and selling it on the black market diluted so much that many patients died. In postwar Vienna, antibioticswere new and scarce outside military hospitals and commanded a very high price. Calloways evidence convinces Martins. Disillusioned, he agrees to leave Vienna. Martins visits Anna to say good bye and finds that she also knows of Limes misdeeds, but that her feelings toward him are unchanged. She tells him she is to be deported. Upon leaving her flat, he notices someone watching from a dark doorway a neighbours lit window briefly reveals the person to be Lime Orson Welles, who flees, ignoring Martinss calls. Martins summons Calloway, who deduces that Lime has escaped through the sewers. The British police immediately exhume Limes coffin and discover that the body is that of Joseph Harbin, an orderly who stole penicillin for Lime and went missing after turning informant. The next day, Martins goes to Kurtz and demands to see Lime. Lime comes out to meet him and they ride Viennas Ferris wheel, the Wiener Riesenrad. Lime indirectly threatens Martinss life but relents when told that the police already know his death and funeral were faked. In a monologue on the insignificance of his victims, he reveals the full extent of his amorality. He again offers a job to Martins and leaves. Calloway asks Martins to help lure Lime out to capture him, and Martins agrees, asking for Annas safe conduct out of Vienna in exchange. However, Anna refuses to leave and remains loyal to Lime. Exasperated, Martins decides to leave but changes his mind after Calloway shows Martins the children who are victims of Limes diluted penicillin, brain damaged as a result of meningitis. Lime sneaks out for his rendezvous with Martins, but Anna, still loyal to Lime, arrives and warns him off just in time. He tries again to escape through the sewers, but the police are there in force. Lime shoots and kills Paine, but Calloway shoots and wounds Lime. Badly injured, Lime drags himself up a ladder to a street grating exit but cannot lift it. Martins picks up Paines revolver, follows Lime, reaches him, but hesitates. Lime looks at him and nods. A shot is heard. Later, Martins attends Limes second funeral. At the risk of missing his flight out of Vienna, Martins waits in the cemetery to speak to Anna. She approaches him from a distance and walks past, ignoring him. ProductioneditDevelopmenteditBefore writing the screenplay, Graham Greene worked out the atmosphere, characterisation and mood of the story by writing a novella. He wrote it as a source text for the screenplay and never intended it to be read by the general public, although it was later published under the same name as the film. In 1. 94. 8 he met Elizabeth Montagu in Vienna. She gave him tours of the city, its sewers and some of its less reputable night clubs. She also introduced Greene to Peter Smolka, the eastern European correspondent for The Times. Smolka gave Greene the stories about the black market in Vienna. The narrator in the novella is Major Calloway, which gives the book a slightly different emphasis from that of the screenplay. George S. Patton Wikipedia. General. George Smith Patton Jr. November 1. 1, 1. December 2. 1, 1. United States Army who commanded the U. S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U. S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Alliedinvasion of Normandy in June 1. Born in 1. 88. 5 to a family with an extensive military background with members having served in the United States Army and Confederate States Army, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1. Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the Patton Sword, and partially due to his skill in the sport, he competed in the 1. Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1. Americas first military action using motor vehicles. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw action in World War I, commanding the U. S. tank school in France before being wounded while leading tanks into combat near the end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U. S. Army, serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the 2nd Armored Division at the time of the American entry into World War II. Patton led U. S. troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1. U. S. II Corps. He commanded the U. S. Seventh Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he was the first Allied commander to reach Messina. There he was embroiled in controversy after he slapped two shell shocked soldiers under his command, and was temporarily removed from battlefield command for other duties such as participating in Operation Fortitudes disinformation campaign for Operation Overlord. Patton returned to command the Third Army following the invasion of Normandy in June 1. France. He led the relief of beleaguered American troops at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and advanced his Third Army into Nazi Germany by the end of the war. After the war, Patton became the military governor of Bavaria, but he was relieved of this post because of his statements trivializing denazification. He commanded the United States Fifteenth Army for slightly more than two months. Patton died in Germany on December 2. Pattons colorful image, hard driving personality and success as a commander were at times overshadowed by his controversial public statements. His philosophy of leading from the front and his ability to inspire troops with vulgarity ridden speeches, such as a famous address to the Third Army, attracted favorable attention. His strong emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action proved effective. While Allied leaders held sharply differing opinions on Patton, he was regarded highly by his opponents in the German High Command. A popular, award winning biographical film released in 1. Patton into an American hero. Early lifeedit. Anne Wilson Nita Patton, Pattons sister. She was engaged to John J. Pershing in 1. 91. George Smith Patton Jr. November 1. 1, 1. San Gabriel, California, to George Smith Patton Sr. Ruth Wilson. Patton had a younger sister, Anne, who was nicknamed Nita. As a child, Patton had difficulty learning to read and write, but eventually overcame this and was known in his adult life to be an avid reader. Note 1 He was tutored from home until the age of eleven, when he was enrolled in Stephen Clarks School for Boys, a private school in Pasadena, for six years. Patton was described as an intelligent boy and was widely read on classical military history, particularly the exploits of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as those of family friend John Singleton Mosby, who frequently stopped by the Patton family home when George S. Patton was a child. He was also a devoted horseback rider. Patton married Beatrice Banning Ayer, the daughter of Boston industrialist Frederick Ayer, on May 2. Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. They had three children, Beatrice Smith born March 1. Ruth Ellen born February 1. George Patton IV born December 1. Patton never seriously considered a career other than the military. At the age of seventeen he sought an appointment to the United States Military Academy. Patton applied to several universities with Reserve Officers Training Corps programs. Patton was accepted to Princeton College but eventually decided on VMI, which his father and grandfather had attended. He attended the school from 1. While Patton was at VMI, Californias Senator nominated him for West Point. In his plebe first year at West Point, Patton adjusted easily to the routine. However, his academic performance was so poor that he was forced to repeat his first year after failing mathematics. Patton excelled at military drills though his academic performance remained average. He was cadet sergeant major his junior year, and cadet adjutant his senior year. He also joined the football team but injured his arm and ceased playing on several occasions, instead trying out for the sword team and track and field, quickly becoming one of the best swordsmen at the academy. Ranked 4. 6 out of 1. Patton graduated from West Point on June 1. Cavalry Branch of the United States Army. AncestryeditThe Patton family was of Irish, Scots Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. His great grandmother came from an aristocratic Welsh family, descended from many Welsh lords of Glamorgan, which had an extensive military background. Patton believed he had former lives as a soldier and took pride in mystical ties with his ancestors. Though not directly descended from George Washington, Patton traced some of his English colonial roots to George Washingtons great grandfather. He was also descended from Englands King Edward I through Edwards son Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. Family belief held the Pattons were descended from sixteen barons who had signed the Magna Carta. Patton believed in reincarnation, and his ancestry was very important to him, forming a central part of his personal identity. The first Patton in America was Robert Patton, born in Ayr, Scotland. He emigrated to Culpeper, Virginia, from Glasgow, in either 1. His paternal grandfather was George Smith Patton, who commanded the 2. Virginia Infantry under Jubal Early in the Civil War and was killed in the Third Battle of Winchester, while his great uncle Waller T. Patton was killed in Picketts Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Patton also descended from Hugh Mercer, who had been killed in the Battle of Princeton during the American Revolution. Pattons father graduated from the Virginia Military Institute VMI, became a lawyer and later the district attorney of Los Angeles County. Pattons maternal grandfather was Benjamin Davis Wilson, a merchant who had been the second Mayor of Los Angeles. His father was a wealthy rancher and lawyer who owned a thousand acre ranch near Pasadena, California. Patton is also a descendant of French Huguenot Louis Du. Bois. 2. 42. 5Junior officereditPattons first posting was with the 1. Cavalry at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he established himself as a hard driving leader who impressed superiors with his dedication. In late 1. 91. 1, Patton was transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia, where many of the Armys senior leaders were stationed. Befriending Secretary of War. Henry L. Stimson, Patton served as his aide at social functions on top of his regular duties as quartermaster for his troop. OlympicseditFor his skill with running and fencing, Patton was selected as the Armys entry for the first modern pentathlon at the 1. Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.