]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.]The main criticisms of the albeit intriguing and highly entertaining film were mostly about the many substantial liberties aken regarding the historical Mozart with highly-fictionalized distortions of historical fact to create better drama, including - (1) the fabrication of an intense rivalry between Salieri and Mozart and the many attempts at sabotage to destroy his career that ultimately led to Mozart""s premature demise, (2) the horrible American accents by many of the cast members, representing the vernacular German, (3) Salieri""s portrayal as a mediocre composer (which he wasn""t), and as a chaste bachelor although he was married and had eight children, and reportedly had soprano-pupil Caterina Cavalieri as a mistress, (4) the fact that Mozart had two surviving children instead of only one, and (5) theRequiem Masswas commissioned not by a disguised Salieri but anonymously by a vain, plagiarist - German aristocrat Count Walsegg-Stuppach (known at the time as the mysterious ""Grey Messenger""), and the completion of the unfinishedMasswas by Mozart""s assistant, composer/conductor Franz Xaver Süssmayr - it wasn""t dictated to Salieri." She predicted the loss of her visionary powers by becoming his lover and sacrificing her virginity: "But my lord, in your bed, I would lose my gift of sight and you would lose your advantage in battle.He notes a section of the novel that parallels the crime being investigated, and calls his partner:Page 67, cowboy.