Jim Thompson Profile
The Killer Inside Me as a movie.
As nasty a piece of noir as you're ever likely to read--makes James M. Cain look like lollipops and roses. Jim Thompson also gave us the novel from which the movie The Grifters was made. I'm not certain that I would like to see The Killer Inside Me on the big screen for all the usual reasons--but here it is.
Note: I didn't say it earlier, but I love Jim Thompson's work. I think I have the majority of what he wrote in the fecund period mentioned in the review article. He is noirest of the noir. And he writes quite well.
As nasty a piece of noir as you're ever likely to read--makes James M. Cain look like lollipops and roses. Jim Thompson also gave us the novel from which the movie The Grifters was made. I'm not certain that I would like to see The Killer Inside Me on the big screen for all the usual reasons--but here it is.
Note: I didn't say it earlier, but I love Jim Thompson's work. I think I have the majority of what he wrote in the fecund period mentioned in the review article. He is noirest of the noir. And he writes quite well.
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