The last line from the mother is (spoiler alert):
"Well, kid, it's only one throat, huh?"
Yeah, pretty vicious.
Jon Bassoff
New Pulp Press
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dick Lochte" <dlochte@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> -----------------------
> 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 . .
> .
>
> Dick Lochte
>
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