Newly Restored The Third Man Heading Back to UK Cinemas
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Posted May 4, 2015 03:13 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal are bringing back to UK cinemas Carol Reed's classic film The Third Man (1949), starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and Bernard Lee. Recently restored in 4K, the film will open in select cinemas across the country on June 26.
The 4K restoration will also be screened during the Centennial Orson Welles Celebration at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Restoration details: Intermediate film print, 2nd generation of nitrate film (non-existent original negative), scanned in 4K and restored frame by frame in 4K by Deluxe in England. Restoration supervised by StudioCanal.
Synopsis: Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old acquaintance, Harry Lime (Welles). When he is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car accident, Martins is intrigued by inconsistencies in the accounts of the death and decides that he can't leave the city without investigating matters further. As a consequence, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and searching for the elusive 'third man' who was at the scene of Lime's death. When the head of the local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), informs him that Lime was involved in black market drug distribution, the plot thickens even further...
Note: In France, StudioCanal have announced a new Blu-ray release of The Third Man, which will be available for purchase on July 15.
The 4K restoration will also be screened during the Centennial Orson Welles Celebration at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Restoration details: Intermediate film print, 2nd generation of nitrate film (non-existent original negative), scanned in 4K and restored frame by frame in 4K by Deluxe in England. Restoration supervised by StudioCanal.
Synopsis: Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old acquaintance, Harry Lime (Welles). When he is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car accident, Martins is intrigued by inconsistencies in the accounts of the death and decides that he can't leave the city without investigating matters further. As a consequence, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and searching for the elusive 'third man' who was at the scene of Lime's death. When the head of the local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), informs him that Lime was involved in black market drug distribution, the plot thickens even further...
Note: In France, StudioCanal have announced a new Blu-ray release of The Third Man, which will be available for purchase on July 15.
