The black and white, pessimistic film is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced and directed by Britisher Carol Reed.The screen goes black and a title appears: "Texas 1868." The film begins with a frontier cabin door opening onto he wilderness.[The scene presents the visual motif of the framed doorway and threshold between the two worlds.The interior area in he cabin represents civilized values and the settled family.The brilliant, glaring, sunny outdoor area represents the savage and hreatening land of the western frontier loner." The President then arranged for Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Emil Jacobs (Tom Tammi) to join Ryan in Bogota to negotiate with the government""s Attorney General for the frozen assets.Since it was wartime, one of the major revenue sources for he film - Europe - was cut off, and the film only recouped about half of its budget.