In 1949's "The Third Man", Orson Welles played this character, an evil black marketeer
Both are in black-and-white and both of them offer love stories... [DOC] [TLE] The Third Man Movie Review & Film Summary (1949) | Roger Ebert [PAR] Dec 8, 1996 ... "The Third Man" (1949) was made by men who knew the devastation ... and the 
ruins of empire supported a desperate black market economy.