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The Bride Wore Black ( French: La Mariée était en noir; literally, "The Bride was in black") is a 1968 French drama thriller film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich. It stars Jeanne Moreau, Charles Denner, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale ...
A widow seeks revenge on the five men who killed her husband in this adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich novel. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 1968 crime drama mystery.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- François Truffaut
- 1968-06-25
The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich, initially published under the pseudonym William Irish. [1] [2] Although it was Woolrich's seventh published novel, it was the first in the noir/pulp style for which he would become known, his previous novels having been Jazz Age fiction about the wealthy and privileged.
- Cornell Woolrich
- 1940
Roger Ebert praises Francois Truffaut's film as a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, but also as a personal and original work. He admires Jeanne Moreau's performance and the unexpected ending of the thriller romance.
The Bride Wore Black. After newly widowed Julie Kohler's (Jeanne Moreau) mother stops her from commiting suicide, she hatches a different plan to deal with her grief. In a small black book, she ...
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- Jeanne Moreau
- François Truffaut
- Mystery & Thriller
Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels ...
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After a botched attempt to put an end to her miserable existence, the emotionally scarred and irreparably destroyed widow, Julie Kohler, summons up the strength to pack up her things and leave her mother and town behind. Haunted by a horrible, life-altering incident and utterly surrendered to the palpable void of paranoia, Julie embraces black ...
