Carol reed heeft prachtig werk afgeleverd waaronder zijn meest eerbare werk ooit: The Third Man uit 1949 (een film noir.)
Als je zijn werk een beetje waardeert dan schaf je de Criterion versie aan (een 2-disc set). Die is digitaal gereconstrueerd en bevat vele extra's:
Special Features
- SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES
- All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video 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
- Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film
- Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke
- "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 Lives of Harry Lime series, 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
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
- Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doe