 Upon Soldati's prompting, Greene continued writing the story as the basis for a film script.Apparently he lost interest in the project, leaving it as a substantial fragment that was published posthumously in "The Graham Greene Film Reader" (1993) and "No Man's Land" (2005).A script for "The Stranger's Hand" was written by Guy Elmes on the basis of Greene's unfinished story, and filmed by Soldati in 1954.