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1949 |
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THRILLER
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GB |
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| Length: |
100 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | | "The hamminess of Welles is no longer a joking matter; this youthful bad habit has become a settled vice that may make him unemployable and a public charge." | | (Robert Hatch, New Republic) | | | "It bears the usual foreign trademarks... over-elaborated to the point of being a monsterpiece... The Third Man's murky, familiar mood springs chiefly from Graham Greene's script, which proves again that he is an uncinematic snob who has robbed the early Hitchcock of everything but his genius... Greene's story... is like a wheel-less freight train." | | (Manny Farber, Nation) | | | "It is, I suppose, because Reed's exceptional talent leads one to expect miracles that I feel a shade of disappointment at the reappearance of the familiar trick or the familiar situation. The chase through the sewers, for instance, is far from new - though to be fair it has never been done better, or possibly as well as here. Hitchcock's films are full of the terror of heights, and though in The Third Man when hero and villain look down from the giant wheel nobody falls off, I could not help thinking that the situation was secondhand. It was, as a matter of fact, not of Hitchcock but of Orson Welles that I thought - and not simply because he was present as an actor. There are passages in the Reed-Greene film with a touch of the pretentiousness which creeps into the later Welles films... To say all this is, l know, to be hypercritical. But The Third Man is excellent enough to be judged by severe standards. And because of its excellence I shall not refrain from adding that the intentional deliberation of the cutting is occasionally over-insistent; that the admirably played zither which provides the only musical accompaniment... is occasionally distracting; and that Valli, who plays the actreess, does not seem to me to have yet justified her reputation." (Dilys Powell) |
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, Orson Welles 
