Bride Wore Black, The

Aroview: Traumatised by her fiance's death, moments before due to be wed, Jeanne Moreau dedicates herself to a long-term plan of revenge, hunting and dispatching the murderers by various inventive means. Dir. Truffaut here attempted to create a fusion of his two cinematic idols - Hitchcock and Renoir - and came up with a beguiling thriller, even recruiting composer Bernard Hermann to the cause. Based on the crime novel by Cornell Woolrich.

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