Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film) movie 40 years ago (when it was published here as "Murder on the Calais Coach"), it would have been photographed in black-and-white on a back lot in Burbank or Culver City, with one or two stars and a dozen character actors and studio contract players. Its running time would have been around 67 minutes and it could have been a very respectable B-picture. "Murder on the Orient Express" wasn't made into a movie 40 years ago, and after you see the Sidney Lumet production that opened yesterday at the Coronet, you may be both surprised and glad it wasn't. An
The Black Angel (novel) The Black Angel (novel) The Black Angel is a 1943 novel by Cornell Woolrich, which was based on two of his own short stories, "Murder in Wax" and "Face Work" (later reissued under the title "Angel Face"). Woolrich had reworked many of his short stories into full-length novels, including "Black Angel". “Murder In Wax” was first published in the pulp magazine Dime Detective in March 1935, a short story in which a man's mistress is murdered, right before he is about to leave his wife for her. After he is arrested and sentenced to death, the story is narrated by