The Third Man DVD Details
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Details
Release Date: 11/23/1999
Chapters: 0
Regions: A
Screen: B&W
Sound Formats: 1
Number of sides: 1
DVD Studio: Criterion
Format: DVD,Blu-Ray
Features
Restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed mono soundtrack
Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich
Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and director Tony Gilroy and the other by film scholar Dana Polan
Abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment
read by actor Richard Clark
Shadowing The Third Man (2005)
a ninety-minute documentary on the making of the film
Graham Greene: The Hunted Man
an hour-long 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series featuring a rare interview with the novelist
Who Was the Third Man? (2000)
a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
The Third Man on the Radio: the 1951 A Ticket to Tangiers episode of the series The Lives of Harry Lime
written and performed by Orson Welles
and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man
Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos
original UK press book
and U.S. trailer
Actor Joseph Cotten's alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version
Archival footage of postwar Vienna
A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film
Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Luc Sante