The Third Man

The Third Man

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  • Date Submitted: 10/04/2008 11:08 AM
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The story is narrated by Colonel Calloway who reconstructs his police files. Rollo Martins travels after the World War II to the into four zones divided Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. When arriving, Martins finds out that his friend was run over by a car and died on his injuries. At lime´s funeral Martins meets Colonel Calloway who points out that lime was the worsr racketeer in Vienna who´d have been arrested if he had not been killed.
Martins dissents from Calloway because he always regarded Lime as a hero and as an idol. He annot prove it, because Martins has to leave Vienna tomorrow because of lack of money. Fortunately, at his hotel Martins is taken for Benjamin Dexter by Mr. Crabbin, therefore a hotel room is ordered for one week plus expenses, but he must host a lecture and a literary discussion. Thus, he starts his own inquiry at first with Kurtz who explains the accident. But Martins isn´t satisfied and thinks that Lime was murdered. Visiting Schmidt, she tells him the same as Cooler did, but mentions that even the driver was a friend of lime. After that, he visits the doctor to question him, but gets no information. At Lime´s appartement he meets Koch who reveals that he is a witness who did not give evidence. He claims that there was a third man whom he could not identify. Martins wants Koch to give him evidence but Koch refuses to do it and outraged. So Martins visits Cooler who tells the same story as Kuntz and askes him about the third man, but he has not seen a third man. Then he Went back to Schmidt again and tellls her about his latest investigation, so they decide to question Koch again. As they arrived, Koch was murdered, therefore they fled and Martins went back to his hotel where Calloway was waiting. He tries to escape and was driven to the lierary discussion. After the discussion Martins was brought to Calloway. Col. Calloway makes inquiry about Cooler, Kurtz, Dr. Winkler and Koch. Martins asks him about the third man, then...

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