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Release Date: 2010-08-17, Audio CD, 101 DISTRIBUTION

William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal ''accident'' in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse.

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.

Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General

William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse.

After Dark My Sweet Widescreen DVD Retail Price: $14.98 Buy now for $9.32 and FREE SHIPPING on each additional item you buy after the first. The more you buy the more you save! You Save: $5.66 Starring: Jason Patric Genre: Drama Rated: R (MPAA) Runtime: 114 Minutes Features: Video: Color; Closed Captioned; Widescreen Audio: Languages and Subtitles: English Soundtrack Studio: LIONS GATE/ARTISAN DVD Release Date: 3/26/2002 12:00:00 AM

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

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.

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 too eager to be...

A brooding adaptation of the unforgiving words of writer Jim Thompson. Ex-boxer Kid Collins escapes from a sanitarium in which he was remanded for killing an opponent in the ring. He stops in a bar for drinks and meets a sexy, older woman named Fay. Though at first she rebuffs Collins, she later welcomes him into her liquor-fueled life... and her bed. Fay later introduces "Collie" to a strange man she knows named Uncle Bud. Apparently a two-bit con artist, Uncle Bud has greater ambitions: he plans...

Pages: 133, Edition: 1st, Paperback, Vintage Books (Black Lizaerd/Vintage Crime)

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 too eager to be...

Brand name: LIONS GATE (TRIMARK/ARTISAN). Merchant SKU: VMKDV12526. UPC: 012236125266.

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...

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.