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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>The Third Man</font> <font size="2"> <br>DVD review by Gary Morris</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>I</b></font>n one of the many extras in Criterion’s sumptuous DVD presentation of Carol Reed’s <i>The Third Man, </i>Peter Bogdanovich calls the film "the greatest non-auteur film ever made." The idea that Reed was not an auteur, merely a gifted technician, is difficult to credit in light of the director’s career and particularly <i>The Third Man.</i> True, individual elements shine here -- Graham Greene’s impeccable script; Vincent Korda’s superb art direction; a fabulously polished studio look (some of it was shot at Shepperton Studios, some on location in Vienna); even the haunting zither score by Anton Karas. But the film’s beauty and power clearly come from the same directorial sensibility behind <i>Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol,</i> and <i>Outcast of the Islands.</i> <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>