attempted a return to the big screen in 1978 with a voodoo horror film initially titled Marianne. Having suffered editorial meddling and script changes, it remained unreleased for six years, until it reappeared on video six years later under the title Mirrors. The film stars Kitty Winn and Peter Donat. Black officially returned to the big screen with A Man, a Woman, and a Bank (1979), a caper comedy film starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Paul Mazursky. Roger Ebert on A Man, a Woman and a Bank: "Since he made the legendary Pretty Poison in 1968, Black's career has drifted from TV assignments to obscure features and back again. He's never really been able to duplicate the freshness of that first success." The film was distributed by Avco Embassy. Black also directed the sex comedy Private School (1983), starring Phoebe Cates and Matthew Modine. In her review of the film, The New York Times critic Janet Maslin mentioned that Pretty Poison earned Black a footnote in American film history. "Private School won’t warrant another one." 1980s and 90s television work Black continued his television work by directing television films including: The Golden Honeymoon (1980) and The Hollow Boy (1991) for PBS; The Electric Grandmother (1982) for NBC; The Other Victim (1981), with William Devane, and Promises to Keep (1985), starring Robert Mitchum, for CBS. He also directed episodes of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone. Unrealized projects The Adventures of Augie March Immediately after Pretty Poison, Black co-wrote, with Fred Segal, a screen adaptation of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, one of many projects that failed to come to fruition. Railroad Bill biopic Black was to have directed a biopic depicting the life of Railroad Bill, with Erich Segal as screenwriter. Killer In 1974, there was a vain possibility of making a film called Killer, written by Richard Maltby, for New Line Cinema. A Change of Seasons After he saw the film A Man, a Woman, and a Bank, film producer Martin Ransohoff hired Black to direct Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Hopkins in Consenting Adults, later to be titled A Change of Seasons (1980). However, Black had been removed from the film after shooting the first half of it due to creative differences. Psycho IV Towards the end of Anthony Perkins' life, he fought long and hard to get Black to direct Psycho IV (1990), but