The Third Man DVD Details

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