Line #10 Creator/JimThompson


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3	James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction.
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5	Thompson wrote more than 30 novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late 1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in ''The New York Times'', Thompson was little recognized in his lifetime. Only after his death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the ''Black Lizard'' series of re-discovered crime fiction.
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7	Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: ''The Killer Inside Me'', ''Savage Night'', ''A Hell of a Woman'' and ''Pop. 1280''. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism. A number of Thompson's books became popular films, including ''The Getaway'' and ''The Grifters''.
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10	!!Thompson novels
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12	* ''Now and on Earth''
13	* ''Heed the Thunder''
14	* ''Nothing More Than Murder''
15	* ''The Killer Inside Me''
16	* ''Cropper's Cabin''
17	* ''Recoil''
18	* ''The Alcoholics''
19	* ''Savage Night''
20	* ''Bad Boy''
21	* ''The Criminal''
22	* ''The Nothing Man''
23	* ''The Golden Gizmo''
24	* ''Roughneck''
25	* ''A Swell-Looking Babe''
26	* ''A Hell of a Woman''
27	* ''Literature/AfterDarkMySweet''
28	* ''The Kill-Off''
29	* ''Wild Town''
30	* ''The Getaway''
31	* ''The Transgressors''
32	* ''The Grifters''
33	* ''Pop. 1280''
34	* ''Texas by the Tail''
35	* ''South of Heaven''
36	* ''Ironside''
37	* ''The Undefeated''
38	* ''Nothing But a Man''
39	* ''Child of Rage''
40	* ''King Blood''
41	* ''The Rip-Off''
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44	!!Adaptations of Thompson novels
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46	* ''Film/TheGetaway'' -- 1972 film starring Creator/SteveMcQueenActor
47	* ''Film/SerieNoire'' -- 1979 French film that adapted ''A Hell of a Woman'' with a SettingUpdate to France of TheSeventies, starring Creator/PatrickDewaere
48	* ''Film/CoupDeTorchon'' -- 1981 French film that adapted ''Pop. 1280'', with a SettingUpdate from the pre-WWI American South to 1938 French West Africa, starring Creator/PhilippeNoiret and Creator/IsabelleHuppert.
49	* ''Film/AfterDarkMySweet'' -- 1990 adaptation of Thompson's novel that has a place on the Creator/RogerEbert Great Movies List.
50	* ''Film/TheGrifters'' -- 1990 film
51	* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' -- 2010 film starring Creator/CaseyAffleck as a sociopathic murderer small-town sheriff
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54	!!Tropes associated with Thompson and his work
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56	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Novelist Geoffery [=O'Brien=] dubbed him the Dimestore Dostoevsky.
57	* TheAlcoholic: Thompson wrote a novel called ''The Alcoholics'', and was definitely one himself.
58	* BitchInSheepsClothing: His novels frequently feature characters who ''act'' like friendly, decent people, but only to disguise how violent and amoral they really are.
59	* TheCameo: His sole acting credit is a brief appearance as Judge Grayle in ''Film/FarewellMyLovely''.
60	* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Thompson got a little notice during his lifetime, but is now considered one of the most unique voices in hardboiled crime fiction.
61	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Or maybe Early Installment ''Lack'' of Weirdness. His first two novels, ''Now and on Earth'' and ''Heed the Thunder'' are fairly straightforward 'literary' novels. While dark and alcohol-soaked, they don't feature the same kind of off-kilter paranoia and occasional surrealism of his best-known later material.
62	* TheFilmOfTheBook: [[Film/TheGrifters A]] [[Film/TheGetaway number]] [[Film/TheKillerInsideMe of]] times, with ''The Getaway'', ''The Killer Inside Me'', and ''Pop. 1280'' each being adapted twice.
63	* MissingEpisode: The novella ''Lunatic at Large'', only a few pages of which have been located.

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