Storyline

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 led 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.

Plot Keywords

funeral, betrayal, cat, author, cemetery, friendship, mistaken identity, ferris wheel, actress, chase, sewer, title spoken by character, cuckoo clock, vienna austria, american abroad, writer, black market, dark secret, hospital, ruins

Short Review

Seventy years on such sombreness seems timely, as does Harry Lime, Welles's deliciously elusive antihero.

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