September 2, 1949 –
Carol Reed’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s post war thriller, The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, and Orson Welles, opened in London of this date.
During the shooting of the film, the final scene was the subject of a dispute between Graham Greene, who wanted the happy ending of the novella, and Carol Reed and David O. Selznick, who stubbornly refused to end the film on what they felt was an artificially happy note. Greene later wrote: “One of the very few major disputes between Carol Reed and myself concerned the ending, and he has been proved triumphantly right.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 