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Director: Carol Reed
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From Time Out Film Guide
Very much a return to the world of Harry Lime, with the ruins of edgy, divided Berlin standing in for the sewers of Vienna. The drab, snow-clad city finds its human counterpart in Mason's sardonic, disreputable double agent, who stalks and then succumbs to the provocatively virginal Bloom. Cold war dogmatism is refreshingly muted, with free world heroes and Stalinist heavies merely a backcloth to the complexly ambiguous relations centred on Mason. The film's rambling, ramshackle construction drew unfavourable comparisons with The Third Man, but despite thematic similarities, it is more fruitfully seen as a forerunner to the down-at-heel spy stories of John Le Carré.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Cast: James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Neff, Geoffrey Toone, Aribert Wäscher, Ernst Schroeder, Dieter Krause, Hilde Sessak, Karl John full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 101 mins
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