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.
The Vienna Police Dept. has a special unit that is assigned solely to patrol the city’s intricate sewer system, as its network of interlocking tunnels make great hiding places for criminals on the run from the law, stolen property, drugs, etc. The “actors” playing police officers in the film were actually off-duty members of that unit.
The Haus of Dcaligari 