The Third Man & The Fallen Idol – Graham Greene

Greene wrote the prose story of The Third Man as a working document for the benefit of Carol Reed, who directed the brilliant movie. Of course it is superbly done, though it is impossible not to picture Joe Cotten, Orson Welles et al despite the many differences between this version and the resulting film. Much of the fun for me was in noting the differences between the two iterations, which are discussed briefly in Greene’s interesting introduction.

My edition also included the less accomplished The Fallen Idol, also filmed by Reed.