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The Grifters is a 1990 American neo-noir [1] crime thriller film directed by Stephen Frears, produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening. [2] The screenplay was written by Donald E. Westlake , based on Jim Thompson 's 1963 novel .
Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles.At the start of the novel, he gets hit in the stomach with a baseball bat when a simple con goes wrong. He seems to be well but when Lilly — his mother — visits him for the first time in almost eight years, he starts to deteriorate.
The Grifters was modeled after B-grade films noir. Critical reviews pointed out similarities between this movie and genre classics such as Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street, Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place, Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly and Fritz Lang's The Big Heat; Alfred Hitchcock was also a major influence.
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Recorded at Easley Studios by The Grifters and Doug Easley and Davis McCain "Dead Already", "Arizona" and "Piddlebach" recorded at Scott's on 4-track "Here Comes Larry" recorded at Easley's on 4-track "Black Fuel Incinerator" rhythm section recorded on 4-track in a Memphis parking garage across the street from The Flower Shop
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were accused of being “grifters” after speaking at a United Nations conference in Colombia, declaring the world’s at a “crossroads”. In their first public ...
"Keep on Dancing!" is a song by Swiss artist DJ BoBo, taken from his debut album, Dance With Me (1993). It features vocals by Turkish-Swiss singer Emel Aykanat and was released in June 1993 via various labels as the follow-up to his successful 1992 hit single "Somebody Dance with Me". The song was both co-written and co-produced by René ...