"It Had to Be Murder" and Other Stories

Selected films based on Woolrich stories

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

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