Above pic: US Pocket Book 2nd edition July 1945 (1st printing October 1940)

La Mariée était en noir (1968)

Is a fine 1968 film version by french director Francois Truffaut, a big fan of Woolrich and the
year after, in 1969 Truffaut filmatizised the bizarre but hauntingly poetic 1947 novel "Waltz into
Darkness" (swedish title: Ljuvliga Bonny, Farliga Bonny, 1947 Centrum förlag) in " La Sirène
du Mississippi ". In The Bride Wore Black / La Mariée était en noir Jeanne Moreau plays the
avenging widow Julie Kohler who takes on a group of unknowing men and murder them one
after another.

Mr. Bliss (Claude Rich), Mr. Coral (Michel Bouquet), Mr. Morane (Michel Lonsdale),
Mr. Delvaux, Mr. Fergus (Charles Denner) and Corey (Jean-Claude Brialy).
Will anyone survive the slaughter and what's the motive, if there's one?

OK, the film is from the late 1960's and in color so that unique black & white Film Noir
atmosphere of the 1940-1950's films may not be present that much, and certainly not Woolrich's
dark and romantic poetry, but the film is fine and Truffaut modernized the plot and the settings
of the novel and he also did some changes regarding the revenge motive (gun instead of a
car) and he reversed the ending in a smart jail twist

The German bluray presents the film in ratio 1.66:1 with french audio DTS-HD MA 2.0 and
with english subtitles, or with an english dub DTS-HD MA 2.0. Extra:
French trailer, US trailer, Featurette interviews 6 minutes in french without subtitles, gallery