The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

Alongside Moreau, the film boasts a sensational cast, including Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner and Michel Bouquet among others, and features a score by the maestro, Bernard Herrman ( Psycho). Adapting celebrated crime writer Cornell Woolrich (who was also the author of the short story Hitchcock's Rear Window is based on) Truffaut's film is a deliciously entertaining tale that was one of the director's biggest hits. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Bride Wore Black. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Undoubtedly an influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, François Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black was itself influenced by the director's idol, Alfred Hitchcock. The Bride Wore Black - Kindle edition by Woolrich, Cornell. From here she enacts her ruthless revenge on the group of men responsible. It was filmed by Francois Truffaut under the same title, and went on to inspire Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies.Jeanne Moreau ( Jules et Jim) stars as the titular bride, who after marrying her love sees him murdered on the steps outside the church. But one police detective is convinced that the answers to these questions can save the lives of men who might be next on the list, men who will continue to die at a rapid rate unless he can solve the puzzle and intervene.Ĭornell Woolrich’s first crime novel, The Bride Wore Black is the stylish, tense thriller that launched the career of “the supreme master of suspense” (New York Times). From The Bride Wore Black: If she comes forward within a day or two to identify or clear herself, as soon as she hears we’re looking for her, the chances are it’ll turn out to have been an accident and she ran out simply to.

Book cover: The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich. Nor do they know why anyone would be targeting this series of seemingly-unrelated persons. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich. Nobody knows her identity, where she comes from or whither she goes. The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich, initially published under the pseudonym William Irish. No connection, that is, aside from the appearance of a beautiful woman in each case, just before the victims met their untimely ends. There was nothing to connect it with the poisoning of a lonely man in his squalid apartment, or with the married business-man killed after him, sealed into a closet and left to suffocate.

When the wealthy ladies’ man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak accident. A police detective seeks the rationale between seemingly-unrelated murders, connected only by the appearance of a beautiful woman each time

The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich