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An ex-boser is taken in by a sexy widow and a crooked cop as a dupe in a con game, but their plan is doomed to fail because their pawn is actually an escaped mental patient.

Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward. A drifter's affair with a beautiful woman brings him more trouble than he was looking for. based on a novel by jim thompson. 1990/color/114 min/r/widescreen.

The get-rich-quick-scheme of a sexy widow and a con man needs a perfect pawn to set it in motion. Their choice has a few skeletons in his closet, however, and he gets involved only to be close to the seductress. If he finds out she's manipulating him, the stakes could turn deadly.

An ex-boxer, a widow and a con man try a kidnap caper in a desert town. Directed by James Foley. From the Jim Thompson novel.

A troubled young man in search of a little truth ends up entangled in a kidnapping scheme. Muddled direction is overcome by above average performances and gritty realism. Based on the novel by Jim Thompson.

Member Rating: Adapted from a novel by pulp writer Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet evokes memories of the film noirs of yore. Jason Patric plays Collie, a short-fused ex-boxer who gets mixed up with alcoholic widow Fay (Rachel Ward) and burned-out former lawman Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern). These two lowlifes involve Collie in a kidnapping scheme. At first willing to go along with the plan, Collie tires of Fay's drunken mood swings and seeks out new companionship. Doctor George Dickinson proves all...

Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. He meets Fay Anderson, a widow, who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. "Uncle Bud" talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.

Size: Approx 27 x 40 Inches (68 cm x 102 cm). Condition: New. Item: DLM385136.

(1906 - 1977) James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films “The Killing” and “Paths of Glory”). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the...

Thompson, Jim. AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. New York: Popular Library, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library #716. Paperback original. "...is the most accessible , best crafted of Thompson's psychopath as narrator novels", Pederson (ed.) The St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 978-79. Filmed in 1990 with Jason Patric and Rachel Ward. A good copy, cover rubbed, reading crease to spine/cover edge.

Approx 9 3/4" x 12". Page has some light printing streaks.

Collie is an ex-boxer who seems the perfect pawn to pull off a kidnapping planned by a sexy widow and a cop-turned-con man. What they don't know is that Collie is an escapee from a mental institution. When he realizes the woman he loves had been manipulating him Collie turns the tables - playing a game of deceit and raw desire that can only end in death.

If you like the twisted, amoral characters that inhabit the world of pulp novelist Jim Thompson, you''re going to love After Dark, My Sweet , one of the most faithful of many Thompson adaptations. Protagonist Kevin "Kid" Collins (Jason Patric), called "Collie" by those attracted to his shaggy dog side, escapes from a mental hospital and shuffles into a lonely desert town (and Patric really has the gait of a former pugilist down). Enter widow Fay Anderson (Rachel Ward), with legs that could stop...

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1990 was a good year for gritty adaptations of the books of Jim Thompson. In addition to The Grifters , this disturbing yet highly entertaining melodrama represented a miniature revival for the novelist. Patric stars as Collie, a literally punch-drunk ex-boxer who is on the run from a mental institution. Dazed, Collie wanders into the seedier side of Palm Springs and becomes tragically entangled with an alcoholic widow (Ward) and a local con man (Dern) who are hatching a scheme to pick up some quick...

Though its Southwestern locations (Indio, California was used) are both a bit too sparse and modern, in every other way this captures the ineffable aura of Jim Thompson's prose (and anyone who's actually READ "The Getaway" knows how utterly impossible a task translating his best effects to film really is). Director Foley has done a splendid job in setting a tone of dreamlike, sunburned melancholy and maintaining it throughout, aided immeasurably by fine performances by Rachel Ward & Bruce Dern and...