Cornell Woolrich
Nascimento : 1903-12-04, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 1968-09-25
História
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Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and other dramatic radio programs.
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Novel
A drama and thriller story of a young woman who has suffered great abuse as a girl and who finds happiness when in a car accident, by mistake, she finds refuge in a false personality. She allows a pair of grieving parents to believe she is their late son's wife. But happiness is not so easy, since the past always comes out and Catherine will have to act to protect the family who has given so much affection.
Screenplay
No exótico mundo de Cuba Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas), um rico comerciante de café, acerta os detalhes de seu casamento acertado pelo correio. Porém, pouco após sua futura esposa chegar à sua casa ele descobre que ela na verdade é uma impostora, que não o ama e está apenas interessada em sua fortuna.
Novel
No exótico mundo de Cuba Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas), um rico comerciante de café, acerta os detalhes de seu casamento acertado pelo correio. Porém, pouco após sua futura esposa chegar à sua casa ele descobre que ela na verdade é uma impostora, que não o ama e está apenas interessada em sua fortuna.
Story
Um arquiteto recentemente paralisado, Jason Kemp (Christopher Reeve), vive em um apartamento altamente equipado tecnologicamente. Ao passar longas horas observando seus vizinhos, acredita que testemunhou um assassinato a partir da sua janela.
Sua colega (Daryl Hannah) junta-se a ele para tentar solucionar a teia de misterios que invade o apartamento. Um detetive da polícia (Robert Forster) vai respondendo pacientemente às repetidas chamadas e acusações de Jason, mas acredita que a sua imaginação está se sobrepondo à sua razão. Determinado a descobrir a verdade, Jason continua a ir cada vez mais além, chegando ao ponto em que se vê encurralado num jogo mortal do gato e do rato.
Novel
A vencedora do Oscar, Shirley MacLaine (Laços de Ternura, 1984), Ricki Lake e Brandan Fraser estrelam esta agitada comédia romântica sobre uma garota que encontra seu verdadeiro amor, mas primeiro precisa resolver um pequeno engano sobre sua verdadeira identidade. Por obra do destino, Connie Doyle é confundida como a viúva do filho de uma milionária. Sem ter para onde ir, sem dinheiro e grávida, Connie aceita a generosidade da entristecida mãe do falecido rapaz e acaba se apaixonando pelo irmão de seu falecido marido. "MacLaine está perfeita como a fada madrinha desta história de Cinderela. Absolutamente irresistível." - Ron Birwingan.
Story
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.
Novel
A criminal saves a cop's daughter from drowning, then forces the cop to shelter him from the police after a bank robbery.
Short Story
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) é um jovem muito criativo que adora jogos de faz-de-conta e que, frequentemente, recruta seu amigo imaginário, o superespião Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman), para suas brincadeiras. Por conta disso, não é à toa que ninguém acredita nele quando o garoto jura ter testemunhado a morte de um agente do FBI. Nem seu próprio pai, o Coronel Hal Osborne (também vivido por Coleman), põe fé na história do menino. Fato é que o agente morreu bem na frente de Davey e deixou para ele um cartucho de videogame chamado Cloak & Dagger. O jogo esconde os planos de um grupo de espiões internacionais e agora, ele corre risco de morte, embarcando em uma aventura de verdade, com fugas de tirar o fôlego, balas reais e muita ação. Será que Jack Flack poderá ajudá-lo?
Novel
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Short Story
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Story
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Short Story
After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
Novel
Um misterioso assassino está matando jovens mulheres com brutalidade, e sempre deixa um adorno em formato de meia-lua junto aos cadáveres. Quando Giulia, que seria a terceira vítima do criminosos, sobrevive ao ataque, seu namorado Mario e o investigador do caso resolvem simular sua morte para que ela ajude a investigar as motivações por trás dos assassinatos - que podem estar ligados ao passado das vítimas e a um verão que passaram no mesmo hotel.
Novel
Adaptado de um livro por William Irish, é um conto noirish (meio "Noir") de um homem que encomenda uma noiva por correspondência, mas recebe em vez disso uma mulher vigarista. Louis Mahe é um plantador de tabaco em Reunion Island. Ele está esperando Julie Roussel para casar com ela. Ele só a conhece por carta. A mulher que vem não gosta do estlo que ele tem, mas ele se casa com ela de qualquer maneira. Logo, ela foge com o dinheiro de Louis. Ela não era a verdadeira Julie Roussel, mas Marion. Louis tenta encontrá-la... Outro filme de Truffaut sobre paixão. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos).
Novel
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Story
A young lad with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder. Unfortunately no one believes him--except the killer. This multi-national drama/thriller, set within a resort community on the Adriatic Sea is a remake of the 1949 film The Window. A screen adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story of the same name.
Story
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
Story
Turkish adaptation of the novel “Deadline at Dawn” by Cornell Woolrich.
Novel
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
Novel
Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1940 story, "Cinderella and the Mob"
Novel
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Author
Enrique kills a man for stealing him a check he has received due to an accident. However, things get complicated because it had not yet been cashed. This will force him to try to forge the signature and eliminate any suspect, including his girlfriend Clara, who works in a law office and who talked him about the check. Police tracks the case, but by chance Pedrito, the police inspector's son, is also investigating on his own.
Story
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
Author
Em Greenwich Village, Nova York, L.B. Jeffries, um fotógrafo profissional, está de molho em seu apartamento por ter quebrado a perna enquanto trabalhava. Como não tem muito o que fazer, fica bisbilhotando a vida dos seus vizinhos com um binóculo. Porém vê algumas coisas que o fazem suspeitar que um assassinato foi cometido.
Short Story
A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Short Story
While committing a prank, a child accidentally discovers the identity of the criminal who keeps the whole neighborhood on alert. For fear of being punished, he does not tell what he knows to his father, a police officer.
Story
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Story
Under the threat of blackmail, a young woman visits an ex-lover, only to discover that he's been murdered and the blame rests upon her.
Novel
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Story
Tommy tem nove anos e vive inventando grandes histórias. Em uma noite de calor, ele decide dormir na escada de incêndio de seu apartamento e acaba testemunhando um assassinato. Ao revelar o que viu, seus pais e a polícia acabam não acreditando nele.
Novel
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?
Novel
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.
Story
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
Story
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
Story
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
Story
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
Novel
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Novel
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Novel
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Story
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Novel
Uma secretária dedicada arrisca sua vida para tentar encontrar uma esquiva mulher que pode provar que seu chefe não assassinou sua esposa egoísta. Num casamento infeliz, Scott Henderson passa a noite com uma mulher de chapéu que ele pegou em um bar. Voltando para casa, ele encontra sua esposa estrangulada e se torna o principal suspeito do assassinato. Todo esforço para estabelecer seu álibi fracassa; estranhamente, ninguém parece se lembrar de ter visto a dama fantasma (ou seu chapéu). Na prisão, Scott perde as esperanças, mas sua fiel secretária, "Kansas", persegue obstinadamente pistas evanescentes pelas sombrias ruas noturnas. Será que ela poderá salvar Scott a tempo?
Novel
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Story
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Story
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
Novel
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Dialogue
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
Writer
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
