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,
Alex Gordon (writer-producer) Alex Gordon (writer-producer) Alex Gordon (8 September 1922 – 24 June 2003) was a British film producer and screenwriter. He produced eighteen films, including the American International Pictures films "Day the World Ended" (1955) and "The She Creature" (1956). He wrote screenplays for three films, two of them with B-movie director Ed Wood, "Jail Bait" (1954) and "Bride of the Monster" (1956). Gordon's brother Richard Gordon was also a film producer. Alex Gordon was a film publicist who served in the British Army. After his discharge in 1947 he and his brother arrived in New York. He worked for theatres,