Editing The Third Man (section)

==Adaptations==
Cotten reprised his role as Holly Martins in a one-hour ''[[The United States Steel Hour|Theatre Guild on the Air]]'' radio adaptation on 7 January 1951. It was also adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'': on 9 April 1951 with Joseph Cotten again reprising his role and on 8 February 1954 with [[Ray Milland]] as Martins.

On 26 December 1950, the [[BBC Home Service]] broadcast a radio adaptation by [[Desmond Carrington]], using the actual soundtrack of the film with linking narration performed by [[Wilfrid Thomas|Wilfred Thomas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/50b3f5064cba4914b47882a0dfead3cd|title=BBC Home Service: The Third Man|website=BBC Programme Index|date=26 December 1950 |access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref>

On 13 November 1971, as part of the ''[[Saturday Night Theatre]]'', [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast an adaptation from the screenplay by Richard Wortley, with [[Ed Bishop]] as Holly Martins, [[Ian Hendry]] as Harry Lime, [[Ann Lynn]] as Anna and [[John Bentley (actor)|John Bentley]] as Col. Calloway,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/eeac943ffa8f4279b71f94085a26d06c|title=Saturday Night Theatre: The Third Man (1971)|website=BBC Programme Index|date=13 November 1971 |access-date=22 July 2024}}</ref>

In November 1994, a new dramatisation directed by Robert Robinson was performed and recorded by the [[L.A. Theatre Works]] in front of a live audience at the Guest Quarter Suite Hotel in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latw.org/title/third-man|title=LATW: The Third Man|website=latw.org|access-date=23 July 2024}}</ref> The cast included [[Kelsey Grammer]] as Holly Martins, [[Rosalind Ayres]] as Anna Schmidt, [[John Vickery (actor)|John Vickery]] as Harry Lime and [[John Mahoney]] as Major Calloway.