]And the film once again teamed co-stars Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles ofCitizen Kane (1941), in a tale of a foolishly-romantic, wimpy American writer (Holly Martins) of pulp westerns in occupied, post-WWII Vienna who tries to understand (and then decipher) the mysterious disappearance - vehicular accidental death and burial of an old school friend (Harry Lime) - who, unbeknownst o him, had become an exploitative, morally corrupt, and chilling black-market drug dealer and racketeer (of diluted penicillin), working out of the Russian zone." [Note: Devereaux is unsuspecting that Charnier is engaged in drug smuggling, and will ship drugs in the vehicle."The Gathering Storm.The power of the sovereign states...is threatened by the new administration." Dr.Cameron (Spottiswood Aitken) reads to his family and the two Stonemans the news of the South""s threat to secede from the Union.He was charged with the murder of wealthy widow Emily Jane French (Norma Varden), in order o inherit her property (80,000 pounds) from her recently-changed will.