The Black Curtain
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The Black Curtain is a mystery novel written by Cornell Woolrich.
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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 is a convicted murderer. He struggles to find a loophole in the overwhelming evidence.
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Film, TV and theatrical adaptations
There has been one cinematic adaptation of the novel and one much later done for television
- Street of Chance October 3, 1942 directed by Sol C. Siegel
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Black Curtain 15 November 1962 directed by Sydney Pollack
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