他的作品《棄兒群島》(1952年)是以約瑟夫·康拉德的小說來改編,通常被評論家認為是卡洛·李創作力衰退的開始[4]。《Our Man in Havana》(1959年),他與葛拉罕·葛林再度合作,而《Trapeze》(1956年)和《The Agony and the Ecstasy》(1965年)則是美國電影。1968年,卡洛·李完成《孤雛淚》,該片獲得哥倫比亞的資金支持,並榮獲奧斯卡最佳導演獎。
^Malcolm, Derek. Carol Reed: The Third Man. The Guardian. 16 March 2000 [2013-07-12]. (原始内容存档于2013-07-22). Carol Reed directed films for 40 years, but his golden period was brief. It covered three years in the late 40s when he made Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol and The Third Man. These three films alone put him in the forefront of British directors of the period, and the last-named, his second collaboration with Graham Greene, is probably the best film noir ever made out of Britain.
^Freehan, Deirdre. Carol Reed. Senses of Cinema. 15 December 2010 [2013-07-12]. (原始内容存档于2013-06-04).
^David Thomson seems to think that in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, London: Little Brown, 2002, p.721, but ascribes this view to others in Have You Seen, London: Allen Lane, 2008, p.632