[Note: This was Lee""s first and sole novel - and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.] The poor Southern town of deteriorating homes was authentically re-created on a Universal Studios"" set.Marty hates his prolonged bachelorhood but he is realistic about his prospects - he would marry if he could find an accepting female who wouldn""t reject him ("Whatever it is that women like, I ain""t got it").The main theme of the colorful film was about the unjust US policy of disallowing US servicemen from fraternizing with Japanese females and taking Japanese brides, when the practice was so commonplace by the mid-1950s.I""m a writer, name""s Martins, Holly Martins.Anyway, down I came, all the way to old Vienna, happy as a lark and without a dime.]An American, Western pulp novelist/writer of juvenile Western pulp stories (Zane Grey-style), Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) [a frivolous first name to define the nature of his character] arrives at the railway station in post-war ravaged Vienna - still under Allied occupation and overrun with black markets.They watched as he was consumed by the burning fire, and his face in the flames resembled a monstrous devil, his true self(# 5 death).