The third man /
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2008]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
64. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.) |
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| Summary: | Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel by Graham Greene. Originally released as motion picture in 1949. Special features: video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich; two audio commentaries--one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and director Tony Gilroy and the other by film scholar Dana Polan; Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke; Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the makin gof the film; "Graham Green: The Haunted Man," an hour-long 1968 episode of the BBC's Ommibus series featuring a rare interview iwth the novelist; Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and cred; The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 "A Ticket to Tangiers" episode of the series The Lives of Harry Lime, written and performed by Orson Wells, and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptaion of The Third Man; illustrated production history with rard behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer; Actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version; Archival footage of postwar Vienna; A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film; Plus, a booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Format: | Blu-ray disc; region A; Dolby digital mono; 1.33:1 aspect ratio. This is a Blu-ray disc and will not play in a standard DVD player. |
| Production Credits: | Photography, Robert Krasker; editor, Oswald Hafenrichter; music, Anton Karas. |