This 1949 crime is directed by Carol Reed and filmed in black and white. This film stars Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hrbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto. In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in postwar 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 Harrys innocence, but is Harry really dead.