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Lakeshore Classic Movies
The Third Man (1949)
Season 2023
Episode 2
Cynical pulp novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in shadowy Vienna and is soon investigating the mysterious death of his old friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Martins soon learns that everything he thought about his friend was a lie, and thus begins an ever-thickening web of deception and murder.
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