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The Third Man (also released as "The 3rd Man"), the classic 1949 Carol Reed (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English Vienna Austria crime film noir murder mystery mistaken identity thriller ("Cats loved him... And so did Women!"; "What a chase he led them!"; "He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"; based on a story "by Graham Greene"; "Hunted by men... Sought by women!"; "Presented by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick"; about a man going to visit his old friend in post-War Vienna, and when he gets there, he discovers that the friend is dead, or is he?) starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli (billed as "Valli"), Orson Welles (even though Welles only appears in a small portion of the movie, he dominates it!), Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Horbiger, and Hedwig Bleibtreu. Note that the musical score for this movie was by Austrian zither musician Anton Karas, and it was so memorable that they even made a tagline about it ("He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"). Also note that this was intended to be the first of several movies with producers David Selznick and Alexander Korda, but the men clashed frequently during the making of the movie, and they never worked together again. Also note that Orson Welles clashed with director Carol Reed, and reportedly, he wrote much of his character's dialog in the movie, and made other contributions to the script that likely drove Reed crazy!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this English movie! Because of how popular this movie was, it was given two quick re-releases in England. The first one occurred around 1955, when Lion International Films was formed (it has letters and numbers at the bottom that were also on the very first 1949 English one-sheet), and the second one occurred later in the 1950s, or very early in the 1960s (and that poster is blank on the bottom). The poster offered here is from that first re-release. Note that there has been much controversy about this poster since it first surfaced early this year (and it is unfolded, which is very unusual for English one-sheets)! Some people argue that it had to be from 1949, and others argued that it had to be a re-release. But what makes it definitive for us that it is a re-release is that it has "LION INTERNATIONAL FILMS" at the bottom, and we found information on the Internet that this was not formed until very late in 1954, and that their first releases were in 1955. It certainly makes sense that one of their very first releases would be this most classic English movie, from just six years before, and it also makes sense that they would have had access to the original printing plates, and that they added "LION INTERNATIONAL FILMS" at the bottom, but that someone forgot to remove the original letters and numbers that had been at the bottom of the original. However, all bidders are free to decide for themselves whether this is first release or a re-release, but know that we believe it to be from the 1955 re-release (and there was also a quick additional re-release in the late 1950s or the 1960s, and that poster has no writing on the bottom, and we are auctioning an example of that poster in our auctions that end on December 8th.

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