The Coolidge Corner Theatre

Big Screen Classics Audience Choice Winner

Film legend Orson Welles stars in this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel by director Carol Reed. Cynical and out of work, pulp novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) travels to Vienna to accept a job offer from his old school chum, Harry Lime (Welles). But when he arrives, Martins discovers his friend has died in an odd traffic accident -- or has he? Investigating the mystery of his friend's death amidst the foggy, dark streets of the divided post-war city, Martins soon finds himself caught up in a plot of love murder and deception far trickier than those of any of his own dimestore novels. 1h33m