"It Had to Be Murder" and Other Stories

Selected films based on Woolrich's fiction

  • Manhattan Love Song (1934) (based on the novel), directed by Leonard Fields
  • Convicted (1938) (based on the short story "Face Work"), directed by Leon Barsha
  • Street of Chance (1942) (based on the novel The Black Curtain), directed by Jack Hively
  • The Leopard Man (1943) (novel Black Alibi), directed by Jacques Tourneur
  • Phantom Lady (1944) (based on the novel), directed by Robert Siodmak
  • The Mark of the Whistler (1944) (based on the story "Dormant Account"), directed by William Castle
  • Deadline at Dawn (1946) (based on the novel), the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman
  • Black Angel (1946) (based on the novel), directed by Roy William Neill
  • The Chase (1946) (based on the novel The Black Path of Fear). directed by Arthur Ripley
  • Fall Guy (1947) (based on the story "Cocaine"), directed by Reginald Le Borg
  • The Guilty (1947) (based on the story "He Looked Like Murder"), directed by John Reinhardt
  • Fear in the Night (1947) (based on the story story "Nightmare"), directed by Maxwell Shane
  • The Return of the Whistler (1948) (based on the story "All at Once, No Alice"), directed by D. Ross Lederman
  • I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) (based on the story), directed by William Nigh
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (based on the novel), directed by John Farrow
  • The Window (1949) (based on the story "The Boy Cried Murder"), directed by Ted Tetzlaff
  • No Man of Her Own (1950) (based on the novel I Married a Dead Man), directed by Mitchell Leisen
  • The Earring (1951) (based on the story "The Death Stone"), directed by León Klimovsky
  • The Trace of Some Lips (1952)[9] (based on the story "Collared"), directed by Juan Bustillo Oro
  • If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952),[10] directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen
  • Don't Ever Open That Door (1952) (an anthology film based on the stories "Somebody on the Phone" and "Humming Bird Comes Home") directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen
  • Rear Window (1954) (based on the story "It Had to Be Murder"), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • Obsession (1954) (based on the story "Silent as the Grave"), directed by Jean Delannoy
  • The Glass Eye (1956), directed by Antonio Santillán
  • Nightmare (1956) (based on the story), directed by Maxwell Shane
  • Escapade (1957) (based on the story "Cinderella and the Mob"), directed by Ralph Habib
  • Ah, Bomb! (1964) (based on the story Adventures of a Fountain Pen), directed by Kihachi Okamoto
  • The Boy Cried Murder (1966) (based on the story The Boy Cried Murder), directed by George P. Breakston
  • The Bride Wore Black (1968) (based on the novel), directed by François Truffaut
  • Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (based on the novel Waltz into Darkness), directed by François Truffaut
  • Kati Patang (1970) (based on the novel I Married a Dead Man),[11] directed by Shakti Samanta
  • Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) (based on the novel Rendezvous in Black), directed by Umberto Lenzi
  • You'll Never See Me Again (1973), TV Movie directed by Jeannot Szwarc
  • Martha (1974) (based on the story For the Rest of Her Life), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Gun Moll (1975) (based on the story "Collared"), directed by Giorgio Capitani
  • Union City (1980) (based on the story "The Corpse Next Door"), directed by Marcus Reichert
  • I Married a Shadow (1983) (based on the novel I Married a Dead Man)
  • Cloak & Dagger (1984) (story "The Boy Who Cried Murder"), directed by Richard Franklin
  • I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990) (based on the story "I'm Dangerous Tonight"), directed by Tobe Hooper
  • Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) (based on the novel "I Married a Dead Man"), directed by Richard Benjamin
  • Rear Window (1998) (based on the story "It Had to Be Murder"), directed by Jeff Bleckner
  • Original Sin (2001) (based on the novel Waltz into Darkness), directed by Michael Cristofer
  • Four O'Clock (2006) (based on the story "Three O'Clock")

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