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Coppel moved to Los Angeles in 1954, where he wrote a number of scripts. He did some uncredited work on "To Catch a Thief" (1955) and did the thriller "Appointment with a Shadow" (1957). With Samuel A. Taylor, Coppel supplied the screenplay for "Vertigo" (1958), based on the Boileau-Narcejac novel "D'entre les morts".