| Notes | Black Alibi is a 1942 Crime novel by Cornell Woolrich.
Made into a movie titled "The Leopard Man" in 1943, directed by Jacques Tourneur, screenplay by Ardel Wray and Edward Dein.
Although there are some differences (e.g. one of the victims, a prostitute in the book, is a dancer in the movie, characterisation of the killer), the adaption keeps the episodic structure of the original, which was fixed many years later by the Italian Gialli as a stylistic device of the Slashermovie subgenre, the at that time not yet established topic of the drove-controlled serial killer and the combination of crime story with horror elements, giving a foretaste of more modern genre contributions. |
