THE THIRD MAN
2.30 PM MALTON HOTEL KILLARNEY
UK 1949 104min 35mm Black & White
An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime. The music wonderfully underpins the strange madness and concept of fragile beauty which pervade the movie and Carol Reed's direction perfectly conveys the sense of a city and society utterly askew.
Director Carol Reed