A Swell-Looking Babe
1954 novel by Jim Thompson
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| Author | Jim Thompson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Publisher | Lion Books |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Publication place | United States |
A Swell-Looking Babe is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson.[1]
Plot
Dusty, a bellboy looking to raise enough money for medical school, falls for the wrong woman.
Film adaptation
A Swell-Looking Babe was adapted into the 1996 film Hit Me starring Elias Koteas as the bellboy, who is renamed "Sonny" in the film adaptation.[2]
References
- ^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.
- ^ "Hit Me". Variety. December 21, 1996.
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Works by Jim Thompson
- Now and on Earth (1942)
- Heed the Thunder (1946)
- Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
- The Killer Inside Me (1952)
- Cropper's Cabin (1952)
- Recoil (1953)
- The Alcoholics (1953)
- Savage Night (1953)
- Bad Boy (1953)
- The Criminal (1953)
- The Golden Gizmo (1954)
- Roughneck (1954)
- A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
- A Hell of a Woman (1954)
- The Nothing Man (1954)
- After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
- The Kill-Off (1957)
- Wild Town (1957)
- The Getaway (1958)
- The Transgressors (1961)
- The Grifters (1963)
- Pop. 1280 (1964)
- Texas by the Tail (1965)
- South of Heaven (1967)
- Child of Rage (1972)
- King Blood (1973)
- Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
- The Rip-Off (1989)
- The Killing (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- The Getaway (1972)
- The Killer Inside Me (1976)
- Série noire (1979)
- Coup de Torchon (1981)
- The Kill-Off (1989)
- After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
- The Grifters (1990)
- The Getaway (1994)
- Hit Me (1996)
- This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
- The Killer Inside Me (2010)
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