Dave wrote:
Personally I liked the book The Grifters quite a bit. The movie is equally
excellent, but seems like a straight adaptation from the book with no
significant changes. I think the dialog was taken almost intact from the
book.
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It's been a while since I read the book and I don't have a copy to check,
but I think the mother has one vicious (spoiler of a line -- the last in the
novel, that isn't in the movie. I once asked Don Westlake why he didn't use
it and he said he didn't remember seeing it in the book. So maybe I imagined
it, which means I'm more perverse than I thought. If anybody has a copy . .
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Dick Lochte
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