Tag: Jim Thompson

The Getaway (1994) Script

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Year:1994
Director:Roger Donaldson
Written by:Jim Thompson (Novel), Walter Hill (Screenplay), Amy Holden Jones (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.
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This World, Then the Fireworks Script

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Year:1997
Director:Michael Oblowitz
Written by:Larry Gross (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Story)

Script Synopsis:Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.
This World, Then the Fireworks Script Resources:

  • This World, Then the Fireworks Script PDF at Script Fly ($)

Other Links:
  • This World, Then the Fireworks ( tt0117898 ) at IMDb
  • This World, Then the Fireworks ( 60033 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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After Dark My Sweet Script

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Year:1990
Director:James Foley
Written by:Jim Thompson (Novel), Robert Redlin (Screenplay), James Foley (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.
After Dark My Sweet Script Resources:

  • After Dark My Sweet Script PDF - Rev. 10-27-89 at Script Fly ($)
  • After Dark My Sweet Script PDF - 9/1/1989 at Script City ($)
  • After Dark My Sweet Transcript at scripts.com

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The Getaway

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Year:1972
Director:Sam Peckinpah
Written by:Walter Hill (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Novel)

Script Synopsis:A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
The Getaway Script Resources:

  • The Getaway Script PDF - February 23, 1972 Final Revised Shooting Script at The Daily Script
  • The Getaway Script PDF - Final Revised Shooting Script - 2/23/1972 at The Script Savant
  • The Getaway Script - 1972-02 Draft at IMSDb
  • The Getaway Script - february 23, 1972 final revised shooting script at The Daily Script
  • The Getaway Script PDF - [2-23-1972][Digitally Cleaned] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Getaway Script PDF - NO DRAFT DATE. 2ND DRAFT. (XL) at Script City ($)
  • The Getaway Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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The Grifters

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Year:1990
Director:Stephen Frears
Written by:Jim Thompson (Novel), Donald E. Westlake (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
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The Killer Inside Me

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Year:2010
Director:Michael Winterbottom
Written by:John Curran (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Novel), Michael Winterbottom (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
The Killer Inside Me Script Resources:

  • The Killer Inside Me Script PDF - [Andrew Dominik] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Killer Inside Me Script PDF - [John Curran 2nd] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Killer Inside Me Transcript at scripts.com

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  • The Killer Inside Me ( tt0954947 ) at IMDb
  • The Killer Inside Me ( 37414 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Killing

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Year:1956
Director:Stanley Kubrick
Written by:Lionel White (Novel), Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Dialogue)

Script Synopsis:Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Paths of Glory

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Year:1957
Director:Stanley Kubrick
Written by:Humphrey Cobb (Novel), Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Calder Willingham (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Paths of Glory Script Resources:

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