The Grifters is a noir fiction novel by Jim Thompson, published in 1963. Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles. At the start of...

Look up grifter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A grifter may refer to: Grifters (band), a 1990s American indie rock band The Grifters (novel), a 1963...

The Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring John Cusack, Anjelica...

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(1968, Best Novel, God Save the Mark; 1990, Best Short Story, "Too Many Crooks"; 1991, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, The Grifters). In 1993, the Mystery...

The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson. Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect bank robbery, but there are things he has forgotten...

Thompson's The Grifters in 1990, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes. Thompson's life was nearly as colorful as his fiction. His novels were...

Sobel Weber. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Anderson, Patrick (March 22, 2004). "Smoke and Grifters". The Washington Post.[permanent dead...

second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales. Gresham attributed the origin of Nightmare Alley to conversations...

The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels:...

1958 novel of the same name. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods and Jennifer Tilly. The film flopped at the box office...

The Undefeated is an American 1969 Western novelization by Jim Thompson based on the film The Undefeated starring John Wayne. After the Civil War, ex-Confederate...

The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters) is a 2006 Japanese animated comedy film directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, who also wrote the eponymous...

Memory is a thriller novel by American writer Donald E. Westlake, published posthumously in April 2010. The novel was written in 1963 and was shopped to...

1942 novel by Jim Thompson. It was his first published novel. Set in San Diego during World War II, it is a semi-autobiographical novel of the author's...

Midnighter's, fight to defeat him. The 2007 mini-series, Grifter & Midnighter, united Grifter, of WildC.A.T.s, with Midnighter. The series was written by Chuck...

The Alcoholics is a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson. The novel was re-released in the 1980s along with several other Thompson books under the Black Lizard imprint...

town, the King and the Duke cheat the townsfolk over two nights with a short, overpriced stage performance. On the third, the grifters collect the admission...

Ironside is an American 1967 crime novel by Jim Thompson based on the television series Ironside. Robert T. Ironside, a detective who needs to use a wheelchair...

the crates containing the dealers' merchandise) are held up by Snake and Eddie, two dimwit grifters previously ejected from the bar. Mistaking Arthur...

Story (1989), a con artist in The Grifters (1990), the Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990), Morticia Addams in the Addams Family films (1991–93),...

The Kill-Off is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson first published in 1957, and reprinted by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in 1999. The novel is a bleak...

The Rip-Off is a crime novel by Jim Thompson. The book was rejected for publication during Thompson's lifetime; the date of composition is assumed to...

It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on Lionel White's novel Clean Break. It stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, and Vince Edwards, and...

1280 is a crime novel by Jim Thompson published in 1964. Set in the fictional town of Pottsville during the early 20th century, the novel follows Nick Corey...

The Criminal is a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson. Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for...

several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom...

is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La...

After Dark, My Sweet is a 1955 American crime novel by Jim Thompson. William Collins is a former boxer with a deadly accident in his past. Collins has...

Travers awarded the film two out of a possible four stars and commented, "Annette Bening can act - watch American Beauty or Bugsy or The Grifters - but she...