Another Trinity


David Goodis
(1917–1967)
1892-1977

Jim Thompson
(1906-1977)
1894-1961

Cornell Woolrich
(1903–1968)
1988-1959


While Cain, Hammett, and Chandler may have lived the lives of exemplary noir prototypes (booze being pretty much the defining element), the three above were bashed up even by those fearsome standards. Still, a lot of movies came from their fiction. For example:

Goodis:
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves) - 1947
Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur) - 1957
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos) - 1957
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut) - 1960
Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller) - 1989

Thompson:
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah) - 1972
The Killer Inside Me (Burt Kennedy) - 1976
Série noire (Alain Corneau) - 1979
Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier) - 1981
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley) - 1990
The Grifters (Stephen Frears) - 1990

Woolrich:
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur) - 1943
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak) - 1944
Black Angel (Roy William Neill) - 1946
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow) - 1948
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff) - 1949
No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen) - 1950
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1954
The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut) - 1968
Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut) - 1969
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder ) - 1974