Restored Print!

A wonderful opportunity to see the British version of Reed and Greene's most renowned collaboration on the big screen, in a restored print (created for the film's fiftieth anniversary in 1999) that sheds new light on a cynical classic. Greene's story follows the search of American writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) for his friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in postwar Vienna, a quest that culminates, appropriately, in the sewers. Seeing the restored version in a theater, Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times, “is like watching it for the first time. . . . (It) takes on even more resonance after beholding the theatrical scale and trickiness of Robert Krasker's revolutionary black-and-white cinematography (which won an Oscar), guided by Reed's steady and innovative direction. . . . Few movies hold up as startlingly well as this mixture of perversity, anxiety, guilt, and adventure.”