The Black Curtain

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Plot

The story concerns a man with amnesia, named Frank Townsend. He cannot remember anything from the previous three years of his life. As it turns out, he may be a suspected murderer. He struggles to find a loophole in the overwhelming evidence.

Film and broadcast adaptations

There has been one cinematic adaptation of the novel, one on radio, and one much later done for television

• Street of Chance (1942) (movie), directed by Jack Hively
• Suspense, dramatic adaptation adapted by George Corey, Produced and Directed by William Spier and featuring Cary Grant as the amnesiac (CBS Radio, 2 December 1943)^[1]
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – "The Black Curtain", directed by Sydney Pollack
  , broadcast November 15, 1962