The Black Curtain
The Black Curtain is a mystery novel written by Cornell Woolrich. The book was initially published in 1941 by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Author | Cornell Woolrich |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Mystery novel |
Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
Publication date | 1941 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 305 pp |
OCLC | 7822613 |
Preceded by | The Bride Wore Black |
Followed by | Marihuana |
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 may be a suspected murderer. He struggles to find a loophole in the overwhelming evidence.
Film and broadcast adaptations
There has been one cinematic adaptation of the novel, one on radio, and one much later done for television
- Suspense, dramatic adaptation written by William Spier and featuring Robert Montgomery as the amnesiac (CBS Radio, 2 February 1943)
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – "The Black Curtain", directed by Sydney Pollack, broadcast November 15, 1962
gollark: eSIMs are *still hardware devices*. Just programmable ones. Which is... why.
gollark: What do you mean? Should you not have planned this before?
gollark: Take SIM cards. Why are they still discrete hardware devices, *running Java*?
gollark: To be honest the phone network and everything associated with it seems terribly designed.
gollark: And there probably will be, since they can hardly vet all of them thoroughly: there are probably a lot of VoIP providers.
References
- "The Black Curtain [WorldCat.org]". Retrieved 2007-12-17.
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