In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was, in fact, a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?
“One of British cinema's most enduring and atmospheric thrillers. A genuine and endlessly rewatchable classic.” Film4
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