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Alan Early
Marian College, Mohill, Co. Leitrim
The new English Leaving Cert Course includes
a list of five films to study. Alan Early reviews them:
Dances with Wolves
Cinema Paradiso
Room With A View
My Left Foot
The Third Man
The Third Man is the fifth and final film on the new Leaving Cert English
Course I will review. It centres around Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton),
a Canadian who travels to post war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry
Lime (Orson Welles). However, on arrival, the shocked Holly learns that
Harry was recently killed in a road accident. Holly meets Major Calloway
who informs him that his friend was in fact a despicable rackateer who,
as a result of his crimes, killed many people, including children. Holly
thrives to prove Calloway wrong. During his investigations, he learns
of the mysterious third man who was seen at the time of the accident but
never came forward in the inquest that followed.
Directed by Carol Reed and with a script by Graham Greene, the film was
chosen for the best British film of all time in 1999 by the BFI and won
a best director Oscar nomination in 1950. Despite the fact that the film
is now over 50 years old, the timeless script still holds up today as
being one of the strongest, and perhaps most shocking plots ever to be
commited to celluloid. With enough twists to make you dizzy, and the Keyser
Soze-like figure of the third man, the film will astound you. Welles gives
his greatest perfomance since Citizen Kane and the shadowy cinematography
accompanied by Reed's direction makes this the master thriller. Welles
wrote all his own dialogue and it makes Lime stand out from all the other
characters, especially with the famous 'Cuckoo clock speech'.
Enjoy this film. It'll be a while before you see one as good!
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