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'kaliber.38' German-language Jim Thompson fansite
Popular Culture's Biography Project biography of Jim Thompson
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"Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson"[1995] by Robert Polito Random House 8x5¼ pb [10/96] for $11.20 Knopf 9¾x6½ hardcover [10/95] out of print/used |
Books by Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson catalog at Amazon.com
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"A Hell of A Woman" [1954]
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"A Swell-Looking Babe" [1954]
"Hit Me" [1996 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"After Dark, My Sweet" [1955]
"After Dark, My Sweet" [1990 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Alcoholics" [1953]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Bad Boy" [1953]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Child of Rage" [1972]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Criminal" [1953]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Cropper's Cabin" [1952]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Fireworks: The Lost Writings" [1988]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Getaway" [1959]
"The Getaway" [1972 feature film] Directed by Sam Peckinpah
"The Getaway" [1994 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Golden Gizmo" (aka "The Golden Sinner") [1954]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Grifters" [1963]
"The Grifters" [1990 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Heed The Thunder" (aka "Sins of the Fathers") [1946]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Kill-Off" [1957]
"The Kill-Off" [1989 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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"The Killer Inside Me" [1952 novel]
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 – until the local authorities focus their suspicions on him. Vintage 8x5 pb [3/91] for $11.16 Orion mass pb [7/2002] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Killer Inside Me" feature film [Devi/Warner Bros. Oct 1976] The shift of the motivation by the filmmakers from psychopathy to victimhood made Amazon reviewers unhappy. Keach does his usual tremendous job, though. 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 Simitar Ent. color DVD [4/98] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"The Killer Inside Me" feature film [Revolution Films release 2010] 
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;
location filming in Galisteo, New Mexico; DVD/Blu-ray not yet available;
latest credits at IMDb
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"King Blood" [1973]
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"The Nothing Man" [1954]
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"Nothing More Than Murder" [1949]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Now and On Earth" [1942]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Pop. 1280." [1964]
"Coup de Torchon" [1981 feature film]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Recoil" [1953]
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"The Rip-Off" [1989]
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"Roughneck" [1954]
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"Savage Night" [1953]
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"South of Heaven" [1967]
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"Texas By The Tail" [1965]
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"The Transgressors" [1961]
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Movies
Jim Thompson credits at Internet Movie Database
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"After Dark, My Sweet" [1990] based on the 1955 novel (see above)
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"Clean Up" [1981]
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"Coup de Torchon" [1981] based on the 1964 novel "Pop. 1280" (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Getaway" [1972] based on the 1959 novel (see above)
"The Getaway" [1994] based on the 1959 novel (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Grifters" [1990] based on the 1963 novel (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Hit Me" [1996] based on the 1954 novel "A Swell-Looking Babe" (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Kill-Off" [1989] based on the 1957 novel (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Killer Inside Me" [1976] based on the 1952 novel (see above)
"The Killer Inside Me" [DUE 2010] based on the 1952 novel (see above)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Paths of Glory" [United Artists Dec 1957]
Co-produced, co-written & directed by Stanley Kubrick; co-written by Calder Willingham
& Jim Thompson; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb; full credits from IMDb
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"This World, Then The Fireworks" [1997]
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