a real let down and the novel is such a brilliant stomach churning journey into madness but this made for tv movie style nonsense is turgid and painfully slow. stick to mike hammer. i find it hard to believe that no body has made a brilliant version of this book and kubrick gushes over it on the cover and he should have taken over the reins on this one. stacey keach is too soppy as lou ford and and the whole thing has the same production values as that seventies tv spin off and of planet of the apes. i thoroughly recommend that you go out and buy lots of jim thompson novels though and actually the grifters isn not done too badly and thats one of his and starring jon cusak. 
a real let down and the novel is such a brilliant stomach churning journey into madness but this made for tv movie style nonsense is turgid and painfully slow. stick to mike hammer. i find it hard to believe that no body has made a brilliant version of this book and kubrick gushes over it on the cover and he should have taken over the reins on this one. stacey keach is too soppy as lou ford and and the whole thing has the same production values as that seventies tv spin off and of planet of the apes. i thoroughly recommend that you go out and buy lots of jim thompson novels though and actually the grifters isn not done too badly and thats one of his and starring jon cusak. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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