Third Man [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- Disc One:
- All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Vido introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
- Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy and one by film scholar Dana Polan
- Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
- Disc Two:
- Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
- "Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist
- Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
- 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 Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
- Illustrated production history with rare 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 essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
View chapters
- Disc #1 -- Third Man: The Film
- 1. Vienna Greets Holly Martins [5:37]
- 2. "A Fellow Called Lime" [2:29]
- 3. "My Name's Calloway" [2:33]
- 4. Mr. Crabbin and Mr. Kurtz [4:12]
- 5. Scene of the Crime [3:26]
- 6. Backstage at the Josefstadt [4:23]
- 7. "There Was a Third Man" [4:59]
- 8. "Leave Death to the Professionals" [5:00]
- 9. "Vinkel!" [4:37]
- 10. Popescu at the Casanova Club [6:08]
- 11. "One of Those Bad Days" [3:20]
- 12. A Date With the Porter [4:15]
- 13. A Literary Celebrity [4:38]
- 14. The Harry Lime File [3:50]
- 15. The Author As Romantic [5:41]
- 16. The Cat in the Doorway [2:22]
- 17. Men Underground [2:47]
- 18. An International Police Action [4:29]
- 19. The Prater Wheel [8:18]
- 20. The Price of Penicillin [6:47]
- 21. "Ballon, Mein Herr?" [3:58]
- 22. The Ghost in the Sewers [8:04]
- 23. Last Respects [2:59]
- Disc #2 -- Third Man: The Supplements
- 1. Back From the Dead [8:35]
- 2. "Something Like Night in Vienna" [8:49]
- 3. Korda and Hartl [3:22]
- 4. A Zither? [3:30]
- 5. The Clothes Issue [4:31]
- 6. Supporting Players [6:28]
- 7. A Twenty-Four-Hour Shoot [2:16]
- 8. Trevor Howard [1:28]
- 9. British Council Characters [1:34]
- 10. "But Where Was Harry?" [9:53]
- 11. No Longer the Old Zane Grey Days [6:46]
- 12. The New Cold War [3:15]
- 13. The Prater Wheel [6:57]
- 14. Harry's Victims [4:56]
- 15. Releasing Tension [3:05]
- 16. A Mercy Killing [5:27]
- 17. Reed's Ending [6:45]
- 18. Korda vs. Selznick [5:25]
Year released: 1949
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 104
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Not Available
Studio: Criterion