The Black Curtain

The Black Curtain

Infobox Book |
name = The Black Curtain
title_orig =
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image_caption =
author = Cornell Woolrich
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Mystery novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
pub_date = 1941
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 305 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 7822613
preceded_by = The Bride Wore Black
followed_by = Marihuana

"The Black Curtain" is a mystery novel written by Cornell Woolrich.

Plot

The story concerns a man with amnesia, named Frank Townsend. He cannot remember anything from the previous three years of his life. As it turns out, he is a convicted murderer. He struggles to find a loophole in the overwhelming evidence.

Film, TV and theatrical adaptations

There has been one cinematic adaptation of the novel and one much later done for television
*"Street of Chance" October 3, 1942 directed by Sol C. Siegel
* "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Black Curtain" 15 November, 1962 directed by Sydney Pollack

References


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See also

*Cornell Woolrich


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