 Narcejac and Boileau's novel "D'entre les morts" was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", and their novel "Celle qui n'était plus" was adapted into the Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Diabolique".Charles O'Brien's research indicates that the term "film noir" was used in French film reviews and newspaper articles in 1938 and 1939, to refer to French films such as "Quai des brumes" (1937) by Marcel Carné and "La Bête humaine" (1938) by Jean Renoir.O'Brien states that he found a "dozen explicit invocations of film noir" in the late 1930s, such as the paper "L'Intransigeant", which called "Quai des brumes" a "film noir" and the newspaper "Action française", in which a January 1938 film review by Francois Vinneuil called "Le Puritain" "un sujet classique