film based on a Goodis detective novel and decided he couldn't see himself making something so stupid. Bibliography Retreat from Oblivion (1939) Dark Passage (1946) Behold This Woman (1947) Nightfall (1947) aka Convicted, The Dark Chase Of Missing Persons (1950) Cassidy's Girl (1951) Of Tender Sin (1952) Street of the Lost (1952) The Burglar (1953) The Moon in the Gutter (1953) Black Friday (1954) The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954) Street of No Return (1954) The Wounded and the Slain (1955) Down There (1956) aka Shoot the Piano Player Fire in the Flesh (1957) Night Squad (1961) Somebody's Done For (1967) aka The Raving Beauty Filmography Although Goodis's novels were occasionally adapted by Hollywood, it was mainly French filmmakers (François Truffaut, René Clément, Jean-Jacques Beineix) who were interested in his work. The following is a list of adaptations in reverse chronological order. A Professional Man (1995) – adapted as part of the second series of Showtime's Fallen Angels (aka Perfect Crimes). Street of No Return – d. Samuel Fuller (1989) Descente aux enfers – d. Francis Girod (1986) from The Wounded and the Slain – d. Gilles Behat (1983) from Street of the Lost The Moon in the Gutter (La Lune dans le Caniveau) – d. Jean-Jacques Beineix (1983) And Hope to Die (original title La Course du lièvre à travers les champs) – d. René Clément (1972) from Black Friday and Raving Beauty The Burglars (Le Casse) – d. Henri Verneuil (1972) from The Burglar The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – episode: "An Out for Oscar" (broadcast April 5, 1963) Bourbon Street Beat – episode: "False Identity" (broadcast May 23, 1960) Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianiste) – d. François Truffaut (1960) from Down There The Burglar – d. Paul Wendkos (1956). Goodis wrote the screenplay from his own novel Nightfall – d. Jacques Tourneur (1957) – d. Pierre Chenal (1956) from Of Missing Persons Dark Passage – d. Delmer Daves (1947) The Unfaithful – d. Vincent Sherman (1947). Goodis wrote the screenplay A film adaptation of Cassidy's Girl was being developed by director Edward Holub in 2004. A filmography of works based on Goodis's novels is appended to Eddie Duggan's 1988 article Life's a Bitch: Paranoia and Sexuality in the novels of David Goodis. References Bibliography (Originally published as Goodis, La Vie en Noir et Blanc. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1984.) External links 1917 births 1967