See Orson Welles in his unforgettable signature role -- the sinister but seductive Harry Lime -- in a 60th-anniversary screening of Sir Carol Reed's post-World War II thriller "The Third Man" at 7 p.m. tonight (Thursday, June 17), in "The Screening Room" at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, 350 N. Wood Ave., downtown Florence.
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Bernard Lee also star in this suspenseful, moving and thought-provoking modern morality tale scripted by Graham Greene ("The Power and the Glory," "The Heart of the Matter").
Here's a trailer created by Turner Classic Movies for this undisputed movie masterpiece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNUrv6Yxxc8
... plus a personal assessment of "The Third Man" by Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ZI1A&feature=related
"The Screening Room" is presented free of charge by Pillar of Fire and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. Admission is free. For details, call 256-764-6564 or e-mail pillaroffire@bellsouth.net.
"Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals ..." -- Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) in Sir Carol Reed's
"The Third Man" (1950)
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