>I forgot to mention that Woolrich's _Fright_ has been
reissued by
> Hardcase Crime. I found it an excellent read (I had
never read it before).
>
> Best,
> mrt
Also Modern Library currently has Rendezvous in Black in
print and Pegasus has The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Black
Angel and Manhattan Love Song. There are still a lot of
copies of the iBook editions of Phantom Lady, Rear Window and
The Bride Wore Black around. There are even copies of the
Ballantine mass market editions from the 80s still around to
be had cheap--they reprinted twelve in all, I believe and I
always see the Woolrich Omnibus (Penguin) in used
bookstores.
For my money the best and most influential Woolrich books are
I Married a Dead Man, The Bride Wore Black, Black Curtain,
Black Angel, Rendezvous in Black and Phantom Lady. I don't
think there's another hardboiled writer whose books have been
turned into more movies and TV episodes. There was a
discussion on this board about how Kill Bill was a reworking
of The Bride Wore Black. I see his stories constantly on the
screen and TV. I remember seeing a screen version of I
Married a Dead Man filmed as Mrs. Winterbourne and starring
Ricky Lake, Shirley MacLaine and Brendon Fraser. Five minutes
into the film I said to myself, this is familiar, but I
couldn't place it at first. IMDB lists 88 movies and TV
episodes based on his writing.
Jeff
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