I think it's tremendous, brilliantly written.
I wonder if we might have another look at the book, please, Ted.
Ted's my director.
I'd like him to show us the book title, the cover of the book.
It's an old copy.
But I want you to drive that name into your mind.
William Irish, author of Deadline at Dawn.
Have you ever seen the movie based on that with Susan Hayward,
Bill Williams, and Paul Lucas?
I Married a Dead Man by William Irish.
Well, now I have another book to show you right now.
William Irish went under three names.
He went, first of all, his real name was Cornel Woolrich.
And then he wrote as William Irish, and he also wrote as George Hopley.
George Hopley wrote Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Remember that was a movie with, I think, John Lund again,
and Ibergy Robinson, and Gaye Russell.
Take a look at that.
Same writer, Cornel Woolrich, same person as William Irish.
Do you care to note what titles are in this volume?
The Bride War Black, Phantom Lady, Rear Window, and Waltz into Darkness.
All of them became fabulous movies.
That is a brilliant set.
It's one of a collection called The Black Box Thrillers.
It has an interesting introduction on Cornel Woolrich.
Try and remember the name, Cornel Woolrich and William Irish and George Hopley.
I will show you I Married a Dead Man and this book again at the end of the film
in case you want to note their names and the books.
Right. We shall do that at the end of our next movie.
Next Saturday Night, an intense drama directed by William Wyler from a play
by Sidney Kingsley, Kirk Douglas in one of his best roles ever, and Eleanor Parker.
She has one scene in this film that really flattens me and leaves me weak on the knees.
Detective Story, a great drama about a detective who's really run down and on the brink.
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cafier Don,
and other fabulous people including Lee Grant in her movie debut.
Detective Story will be followed by a classic comedy of the 1940s,
one of the most successful movies of the 1940s, and I refer to The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,
written and directed by the great Preston Sturgess with Eddie Bracken and Betty Harton.
Eddie Bracken, of course, is in Australia at the moment,
appearing in the stage show Sugar Babies.
Miracle of Morgan's Creek is actually so provocative, so sensational, that I could link it
with one of the most controversial and many people think disgusting movies
of the last two or three years.
Do you know what it might be?
I'm not going to tell you now, but I might tell you next Saturday night
when I present Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
In a few minutes' time, Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, in Hot Spell.