greene and terence rattigan wrote the screenplay for the 1947 film adaptation, produced and directed by john and roy boulting, with assistant director gerald mitchell. the ironic ending of the film, in which rose's damaged gramophone record of pinkie's voice sticks and repeats the words "i love you", was changed against greene's wishes from his original story, in which rose is about to hear the entire recording and will realize that pinkie hated her. this is described by greene as "the greatest horror of all". the filmmakers believed censors were likely to object to the more tragic original ending.