You have been wondering all week — admit it! — how I will produce a Woolrich-inspired intertitle. That I am able to do so is down to the researches of CW biographer Francis M Nevins, who discovered that a “William Irish” (one of Woolrich’s several pseudonyms) worked at First National Pictures in 1929, and wrote the titles for Benjamin Christensen’s SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN. Unfortunately I couldn’t source CHILDREN OF THE RITZ, based on one of Woolrich’s very early, Scott Fitzgerald-influenced novels of the roaring twenties, and even unfortunatelier the only copies of SEVEN FOOTPRINTS extant are very low quality and have Italian intertitles. However, through the miracle of Babelfish I can tell you that the above passage translates as ~
“Your life of saves but for the oath that you have made, you must serve for three years, ours landladies.”
End of Cornell Woolrich Week — but watch out for Day Eight of the week, also this month’s entry in Siodmak Year, coming soon.
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