Anton Karas members of the British Royal family. Princess Margaret invited him to London's fashionable "Empress Club", where he played twice a week during his stay at London. He also appeared before Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, members of the Swedish royal family, and Pope Pius XII. By the end of 1949, half a million copies of "The Harry Lime Theme" had been sold, an unprecedented number for the time. The success of the score also caused a surge in zither sales. In Austria, the film opened on 10 March 1950, in Vienna's Apollo Kino, and it initially offended some Viennese inhabitants,
Alexander Korda (1916), "St. Peter's Umbrella" (1917), "The Stork Caliph" (1917) (from the novel by Mihály Babits), and "Magic" (1917). Korda later regarded "Harrison and Barrison" (1917) as his best film. He also made "Faun" (1918), "" (1918), and "Mary Ann" (1918). During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Korda made "Ave Caesar!" (1919), "White Rose" (1919), "Yamata" (1919) and "Neither at Home or Abroad" (1919). His final Hungarian film was "Number 111" (1919). In October 1919, Korda was arrested during the White Terror that followed the overthrow of the short-lived Communist government, the Hungarian Democratic Republic, because he had participated in its government.