The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, which is famous for serving dinner and drinks during the movie, as well as its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema-going etiquette.

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Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American actor.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.

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Anadarko, Oklahoma

Anadarko is a city and county seat of Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Anthony Boucher

William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dramas.

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Arbitration

Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a neutral third party who makes a binding decision.

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Arnold Hano

Arnold Philip Hano (March 2, 1922 – October 24, 2021) was an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work A Day in the Bleachers, a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, centered on its pivotal play, Willie Mays' famous catch and throw.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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Bad Boy (1953 book)

Bad Boy is a 1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson, an American crime novelist.

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Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Billy Zane

William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor.

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Black Lizard (publisher)

Black Lizard was an American book publisher.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Burt Kennedy

Burton Raphael Kennedy (September 3, 1922 – February 15, 2001) was an American screenwriter and director known mainly for directing Westerns.

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Burwell, Nebraska

Burwell is a city in Garfield County, Nebraska, United States.

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Caddo County, Oklahoma

Caddo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Cain's Hundred

Cain's Hundred is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from 1961 to 1962.

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Calder Willingham

Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995)Alex Macaulay, from the New Georgia Encyclopedia was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor.

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Charles E. Young Research Library

The Charles E. Young Research Library is one of the largest libraries on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Contract killing

Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.

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Convoy (TV series)

Convoy is a 13-episode American television show set during World War II that appeared on NBC for the 1965–1966 television season.

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Cop Land

Cop Land is a 1997 American neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by James Mangold.

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Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate) is a 1981 French crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and adapted from Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Jim Thompson (writer) and Dashiell Hammett are American Noir writers and pulp fiction writers.

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Donald E. Westlake

Donald Edwin Westlake (July 12, 1933 – December 31, 2008) was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. Jim Thompson (writer) and Donald E. Westlake are American crime fiction writers.

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Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)

Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe.

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Federal Writers' Project

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop a history and overview of the United States, by state, cities and other jurisdictions.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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Geoffrey O'Brien

Geoffrey O'Brien (born 1948 New York City, New York) is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian.

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Georges Perec

Georges Perec (7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist.

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Gina Gershon

Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American actress and singer.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet")—known as the Grand Guignol–was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (7, cité Chaptal).

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greek tragedy

Greek tragedy is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited Anatolia, along with comedy and the satyr play.

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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Jim Thompson (writer) and Harlan Ellison are pulp fiction writers.

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Harry McClintock

Harry Kirby McClintock (October 8, 1884 – April 24, 1957), also known as "Haywire Mac", was an American railroad man, radio personality, actor, singer, songwriter, and poet, best known for his song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains". Jim Thompson (writer) and Harry McClintock are industrial Workers of the World members.

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Heed the Thunder

Heed the Thunder is a 1946 American crime novel by Jim Thompson.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Horace McCoy

Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. Jim Thompson (writer) and Horace McCoy are American crime fiction writers and pulp fiction writers.

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Hotel Texas

The Hilton Fort Worth is a historic hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.

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Ironside (1967 TV series)

Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over eight seasons from 1967 to 1975.

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Ironside (Thompson novel)

Ironside is an American 1967 crime novel by Jim Thompson based on the television series Ironside.

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James Lee Barrett

James Lee Barrett (November 19, 1929 – October 15, 1989) was an American author, producer and screenwriter.

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Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress.

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Jo Nesbø

Jon "Jo" Nesbø (born 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian writer, musician, and former football player and reporter.

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Kate Hudson

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress and singer.

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Kim Basinger

Kimila Ann Basinger (born December 8, 1953) is an American actress.

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Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a neighbourhood of city of Kouvola, former industrial town and municipality of Finland, located in the region of Kymenlaakso in the province of Southern Finland.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lionel White

Lionel White (9 July 1905 – 26 December 1985) was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. Jim Thompson (writer) and Lionel White are American crime fiction writers and pulp fiction writers.

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Literary fiction

Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction); or, otherwise, refer to novels that are character-driven rather than plot-driven, examine the human condition, use language in an experimental or poetic fashion, or are simply considered serious art.

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Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. Jim Thompson (writer) and Louis L'Amour are novelists from Oklahoma.

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Mackenzie's Raiders

Mackenzie's Raiders is an American Western television series starring Richard Carlson that was broadcast in syndication and produced in 1958–1959.

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Marie Trintignant

Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress.

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Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter.

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Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer.

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MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Mark Thomas Griffin (born 1957), better known as MC 900 Ft.

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Michael Roemer

Michael Roemer (born January 1, 1928) is a film director, producer and writer.

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Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director.

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Moonshine

Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally.

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Morphine (band)

Morphine was an American rock band formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989.

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Musso & Frank Grill

Musso & Frank Grill is a restaurant located at 6667-9 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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Nebraska Public Media, formerly Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), is a state network of public radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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Nothing but a Man

Nothing but a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln, and directed by Michael Roemer, who also co-wrote the film with Robert M. Young.

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Nothing but a Man (novel)

Nothing But a Man is an American 1970 novelization by Jim Thompson based on the film Nothing But a Man (1964).

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Nothing More Than Murder

Nothing More Than Murder is a 1949 crime novel by Jim Thompson.

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Now and on Earth

Now and On Earth is a 1942 novel by Jim Thompson.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma Territory

The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma.

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Oulipo

Oulipo (short for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.

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Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, which was based on the Souain corporals affair during World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial.

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Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an American rock group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975.

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Pop. 1280

Pop.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. Jim Thompson (writer) and Raymond Chandler are American crime fiction writers and pulp fiction writers.

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Realism (arts)

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

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Robert M. Young (director)

Robert Milton Young (November 22, 1924 – February 6, 2024) was an American film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

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Robert Polito

Robert Polito is a poet, biographer, essayist, critic, educator, curator, and arts administrator.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.

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Ronald Verlin Cassill

Ronald Verlin Cassill, known by his pen name R. V. Cassill, (May 17, 1919 – March 25, 2002) was a writer, reviewer, editor, painter and lithographer.

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Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(writer)

Also known as James M. Thompson, James Myers Thompson, Jim M. Thompson, Jim Myers Thompson.

, Hotel Texas, Industrial Workers of the World, Ironside (1967 TV series), Ironside (Thompson novel), James Lee Barrett, Jessica Alba, Jo Nesbø, Kate Hudson, Kim Basinger, Kuusankoski, Library of America, Lionel White, Literary fiction, Louis L'Amour, Mackenzie's Raiders, Marie Trintignant, Mark E. Smith, Mark Sandman, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Michael Roemer, Michael Winterbottom, Moonshine, Morphine (band), Musso & Frank Grill, National Book Award, Nebraska Public Media, New Deal, Nihilism, Nothing but a Man, Nothing but a Man (novel), Nothing More Than Murder, Now and on Earth, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, Oulipo, Paths of Glory, Pere Ubu, Pop. 1280, Prohibition, Pulp magazine, Raymond Chandler, Realism (arts), Robert M. Young (director), Robert Mitchum, Robert Polito, Robert Redford, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Sam Peckinpah, Samuel Fuller, Savage Night, Série noire (film), Scam, Shooting script, Spartacus (film), Stacy Keach, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Frears, Stephen King, Steve McQueen, Surrealism, Suspense, Teetotalism, The Alcoholics, The Criminal (novel), The Getaway (1994 film), The Getaway (novel), The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Golden Gizmo, The Grifters (film), The Grifters (novel), The Kill-Off, The Kill-Off (novel), The Killer Inside Me, The Killer Inside Me (1976 film), The Killer Inside Me (2010 film), The Killing (film), The Nothing Man, The Rip-Off (novel), The Transgressors, The Undefeated (1969 film), The Undefeated (novel), This World, Then the Fireworks, Treat Her Right, True crime, Tuberculosis, Unreliable narrator, Walter Hill, Why I Hate Women, Wild Town, Writers Guild of America.

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