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The Third Man (1949): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Third Man is a 1949 thriller, mystery film directed by Carol Reed. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 97 on Metacritic, 7.9 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 81 while Metacritic critics give it 97, a gap of 16 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 107 films from 1949 in our catalog and number 12 of 716 mystery films.

Billed cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch.

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