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&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"A Hell of A Woman" [1954] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"A Swell-Looking Babe" [1954] <p>"Hit Me" [1996 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"After Dark, My Sweet" [1955] <p>"After Dark, My Sweet" [1990 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Alcoholics" [1953] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Bad Boy" [1953] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Child of Rage" [1972] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Criminal" [1953] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Cropper's Cabin" [1952] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Fireworks: The Lost Writings" [1988] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Getaway" [1959] <p>"The Getaway" [1972 feature film] Directed by <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/western/Peckinpah.htm" target="_blank">Sam Peckinpah</a> <p>"The Getaway" [1994 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Golden Gizmo" (aka "The Golden Sinner") [1954] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Grifters" [1963] <p>"The Grifters" [1990 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Heed The Thunder" (aka "Sins of the Fathers") [1946] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Kill-Off" [1957] <p>"The Kill-Off" [1989 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p><table border=0 width=700> <tr valign=top><td align=right><a href=null> <img alt="The Killer Inside Me 1952 novel by Jim Thompson" border=1 width=105 height=162 src="covers/bJTKillerInsideMe.jpg"></a>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <big>"The Killer Inside Me" [1952 novel]</big> <br><font color=yellow>Narrated by a sociopathic deputy sheriff in a small Texas town who kills a prostitute and her lover, the son of the local kingpin. The deputy kills others to hide his crime, and then others &ndash; until the local authorities focus their suspicions on him.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679733973/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Vintage 8x5 pb [3/91] for $11.16</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752851438/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Orion mass pb [7/2002] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_Inside_Me" target="_blank">book entry at Wikipedia</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><a href=null> <img alt="The Killer Inside Me 1976 movie starring Stacy Keach" border=1 width=105 height=140 src=covers/dKillerInsideMe76.jpg></a>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <big>"The Killer Inside Me" feature film [Devi/Warner Bros. Oct 1976]</big><br> <font color="#ffaa00">The shift of the motivation by the filmmakers from psychopathy to victimhood made Amazon reviewers unhappy. Keach does his usual tremendous job, though.</font> Directed by Burt Kennedy; based on Jim Thompson's 1952 novel; starring Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Charles McGraw, John Dehner, Pepe Serna, Royal Dano, Julie Adams, John Carradine & Don Stroud <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304898509/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simitar Ent. color DVD [4/98] out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074746/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits at IMDb</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><a href=null><img alt="The Killer Inside Me 2010 movie poster" border=1 width=105 height=153 src="covers/pKillerInsideMe2010.jpg"></a>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><p><big>"The Killer Inside Me" feature film [Revolution Films June 2010]</big>&nbsp&nbsp<img src=images/newredylo.gif> <br><font color=wheat>Location filming in Galisteo, New Mexico; reviewed as 'more grisly than anything by <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/western/Peckinpah.htm" target="_blank">Sam Peckinpah</a>'; a young psychopathic rural deputy sheriff finally cracks; he conspires with a prostitute in a blackmail scheme, then beats her and shoots the son of a local builder in revenge &ndash; but the girl survives in a coma, and the deputy commits other murders to attempt to cover up his crimes;</font> co-written & directed by Michael Winterbottom; based on Jim Thompson's 1952 novel; starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman, Liam Aiken, Ned Beatty, Brent Briscoe & Tom Bower <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954947/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.killerinsideme.com/" target="_blank">official movie site</a> </td></tr></table> <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"King Blood" [1973] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Nothing Man" [1954] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Nothing More Than Murder" [1949] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Now and On Earth" [1942] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Pop. 1280." [1964] <p>"Coup de Torchon" [1981 feature film] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Recoil" [1953] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Rip-Off" [1989] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Roughneck" [1954] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Savage Night" [1953] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"South of Heaven" [1967] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Texas By The Tail" [1965] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Transgressors" [1961] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Wild Town" [1957] <p><br><a name="movies"> </a><hr width=600 color=yellow> <p><font face="braggadocio,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>M o v i e s</b></big></big></font> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0860292/" target="_blank">Jim Thompson credits [since 1956] at Internet Movie Database</a> <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"After Dark, My Sweet" [1990] based on the 1955 novel (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>unproduced screenplay "Bo" [1970] <br>Jim Thompson was flown to Robert Redford's Utah residence and hired for $10,000<br>to write a motion picture script about the life of a hobo during <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/GreatDepression.htm" target="_blank">The Great Depression</a>. <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Clean Up" [1981] <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Coup de Torchon" [1981] based on the 1964 novel "Pop. 1280" (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Getaway" [1972] based on the 1959 novel (see above) <br>"The Getaway" [1994] based on the 1959 novel (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Grifters" [1990] based on the 1963 novel (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Hit Me" [1996] based on the 1954 novel "A Swell-Looking Babe" (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Kill-Off" [1989] based on the 1957 novel (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"The Killer Inside Me" [1976] based on the 1952 novel (see above) <p>"The Killer Inside Me" [June 2010] based on the 1952 novel (see above) <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"Paths of Glory" [United Artists Dec 1957]<small> <br>Co-produced, co-written & directed by <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/lantern/Kubrick.htm" target="_blank">Stanley Kubrick</a>; co-written by Calder Willingham<br>& Jim Thompson; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb; <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a></small> <p><font color=yellow size=1>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</font> <p>"This World, Then The Fireworks" [1997] <p><a name="links"> </a><hr color=yellow width=400> <p><font face="braggadocio,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>L i n k s</b></big></big></font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Thompson/e/B000AP80ES/?tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Jim Thompson catalog at Amazon</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0860292/" target="_blank">Jim Thompson credits [since 1956] at Internet Movie Database</a> <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_%28writer%29" target="_blank">Jim Thompson entry at Wikipedia</a> <p><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/lantern/blacklist.htm" target="_blank">The Hollywood Blacklist</a> <br><a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~noir/btitles/thompson/index.shtml" target="_blank">'Dark City' Jim Thompson fansite</a> <br><a href="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6437/jim.htm" target="_blank">LJF's Jim Thompson fansite</a> <br><a href="http://www.crimetime.co.uk/features/jimthompson.html" target="_blank">Jim Thompson article at 'CrimeTime' U.K.</a> <br><a href="http://www.kaliber38.de/autoren/thompson/thompson.htm" target="_blank">'kaliber.38' German-language Jim Thompson fansite</a> <br><a href="http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/jim_thompson.html" target="_blank">Popular Culture's Biography Project biography of Jim Thompson</a> <p><br><img src=images/bullethole-sm.gif> <p>Online sales in association with&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Thompson/e/B000AP80ES/?tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank"><img border=0 src="images/amazon.gif" alt="Jim Thompson catalog at Amazon"></a> <p><a href=#top>top of this page</a>&nbsp&nbsp" " &nbsp&nbsp<a href=index.htm>back to BlackHat Mystery Bookstore homepage</a> <p><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://hits.webstat.com/cgi-bin/wsv2.cgi?52732"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.webstat.com"><img SRC="http://hits.webstat.com/scripts/wsb.php?ac=52732" border="0" alt="WebSTAT - Free Web Statistics"></a></noscript> </center> </body> </html>