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Auction History Result #5230 3rd MAN 8 LCs '49 Welles, film noir Date Sold 6/17/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Complete Set of 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Third Man (also released as "The 3rd Man"), the classic 1949 Carol Reed (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English Vienna Austria crime film noir murder mystery mistaken identity thriller ("Cats loved him... And so did Women!"; "What a chase he led them!"; "He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"; based on a story "by Graham Greene"; "Hunted by men... Sought by women!"; "Presented by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick"; about a man going to visit his old friend in post-War Vienna, and when he gets there, he discovers that the friend is dead, or is he?) starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli (billed as "Valli"), Orson Welles (even though Welles only appears in a small portion of the movie, he dominates it!), Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Horbiger, and Hedwig Bleibtreu. Note that the musical score for this movie was by Austrian zither musician Anton Karas, and it was so memorable that they even made a tagline about it ("He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"). Also note that this was intended to be the first of several movies with producers David Selznick and Alexander Korda, but the men clashed frequently during the making of the movie, and they never worked together again. Also note that Orson Welles clashed with director Carol Reed, and reportedly, he wrote much of his character's dialog in the movie, and made other contributions to the script that likely drove Reed crazy! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that one rarely sees individual lobby cards from this classic movie, yet an entire set is offered here! Condition: very good. 3" tear in the bottom edge of the card with 5 people and a 1 1/2" tear in the bottom of the card with the portrait of Alida Valli, (both repaired with tape from the back); minor creases, smudges and a few tack holes around the edges of the cards; small embossed stamp in the lower right corner of the card with Cotten and Welles alone (the same card has three brown stains in the left border and smudges and creases around the edges of the card); the card with the close portrait of Welles has a brown dirt stain in the middle of the left border just slightly extending into the edge of the image; it appears to be easily restorable Learn More about condition grades 
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