"Phantom lady" (1944) Trailer

[MrBobzilla49]

hmm the theme in the background  sounds just like the theme in the invisible man returns

[SmokeyGunn357]

While I have nothing but the greatest love and respect for film noir, I do not feel this film does justice to the haunting book by Cornell Woolrich. Hitchcock's adaptation of rear window was brilliant. This film, however, fails to present the book faithfully. It would be great if it were redone in a story line more faithful to the original. Just my opinion.

[slobomotion]

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[netzahuacoyotl]

Phantom Lady was written by Cornell Woolrich under the psuedonym William Irish. Woolrich is the author of Rear Window and The Bride Wore Black and numerous other classic stories such as The Black Angel and Waltz Into Darkness (adapted to film as Mississippi Mermaid by Truffaut and more recently as Original Sin). Several of his stories were put on TV by Hitchcock. Woolrich invented noir. He also practically invented suspense, and most standard noir and suspense is based on his plot formulas.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

It was and is famous to the literate.

[crankenstein70]

great movie...

[DrGlitterhouse]

Based on a "famous novel" I've never heard of.

[Zahneissen]

In case you don 't know what it 's all about, stop rading comic books and start reading crime novel.

Start with Dash Hammett, James M. Cain, Horace MacCoy, Cornell Woolrich, David Goodis, Ross MacDonald and the lot and finish it up with Charles Willeford and James Ellroy.

Or start all over again with John Buchan, Frank Gruber, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, ....

:-D

[DrGlitterhouse]

I've seen the movie, I've heard of some of the writers you cited, but none of that makes Universal's claims of "Phantom Lady" being a "famous novel" any less hyperbolic.

[EarlSnohomish]

It was a famous novel in 1944.