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...Jules and Jim and The Bride Wore Black are the others-in which Truffaut has dealt in detail with the character of a mysterious woman who enchants, dominates and finally controls men. Like Bride, Truffaut's The Mississippi Mermaid is based on a thriller by the American Cornell Woolrich, and like its predecessor, it deals with a predatory female and a weak male, whom she eventually destroys. Julie (to emphasize the similarity, the name is repeated from The Bride Wore Black) is an elegant mail-order bride with a Saint Laurent wardrobe who has come to the French island...
...Bride Wore Black, Truffaut has Gallicized a novel by American Mystery Writer Cornell Woolrich and remade it in his own images. As revealed in a series of shuffled flashbacks, the groom and the bride (Jeanne Moreau) trip happily down the steps of a church and smile at the wedding party's photographer. A shot rings out, and the new husband falls. Five men are responsible for the killing, a group of drinking and hunting cronies who played with a gun until one of them accidentally became the trigger man. The thought of revenge becomes an idée fixe...
...plan is a one-way street. Wilson thinks it should be two-way, that other nations, like woolrich Australia, should set up similar priority systems to take care of U.S. needs. Unless this is done, the plan will fail. Then the U.S. will have only one way to solve the raw materials problem: flex its economic muscles and push its allies into line...
...Radio) gives a modest but impressive view of how well Hollywood can do, if it tries, on a grade B budget (under $750,000). One of the last jobs done for RKO by Executive Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full...
William Gardiner, former governor of the state of Maine, declared he was highly encouraged by this tip yesterday. He said the family had stopped to eat at the roadhouse several times on route to their estates in Woolrich, Maine. His son might also have gone there, he continued, on route to the ski country...