![]() Kudos to the American Mystery Classics series for making this top-notch noir available to a new audience. Based on a book by American genre novelist Cornell Woolrich (aka William Irish) and shot by the legendary Raoul Coutard (Contempt, Z), the film - about a widow. ![]() The ending, with its devastating revelation of what’s behind the homicides, is as bleak as anything Woolrich ever wrote. ![]() ![]() Julie dispatches a second man by poisoning and manages to stay one step ahead of the law as she murders other victims. In the late 920s and early '30s, he had written and published several. Then she pushes him off the terrace to his death and disappears, leaving the police baffled as to her identity and motive. The Bride Wore Black is Woolrich's first attempt at a novel-length suspense-mystery. Out on the apartment’s terrace, Julie tells Bliss that, though he doesn’t recognize her, he’d seen her once before, when he was in a car with four other men. A police detective seeks the rationale between seemingly-unrelated murders. ![]() After renting a room under an assumed name, she cases the apartment house of well-to-do Ken Bliss, whose engagement party she later crashes. Buy a copy of The Bride Wore Black book by Cornell Woolrich, Eddie Muller. At the start of this somber crime novel from Woolrich (1903–1968), originally published in 1940, a woman named Julie buys a one-way ticket to Chicago at New York’s Grand Central Station, but she gets off at the first stop, still in Manhattan. ![]()
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