The getaway : [screenplay] / writer-director W. Hill ; based on the novel by Jim Thompson. 1991.

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The getaway : [screenplay] / writer-director W. Hill ; based on the novel by Jim Thompson. 1991.

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Doc McCoy, released from prison on parole, gathers a band of professional thieves for a bank robbery, but finds himself and his wife on the run after the successful bank robbery is complicated by a double-crossing accomplice and a corrupt politician.

108 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Miller Nichols Library; Health Sciences Library; Dental Library

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University of Missouri-Kansas City, Miller Nichols Library; Health Sciences Library; Dental Library

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Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977

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James Myers Thompson was born in Anadarko, OK, in 1906; BA, Univ. of Nebraska; married wife, Alberta, in 1931; associated with the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s; journalist, New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times Mirror; best known for his mystery and suspense paperback books, he wrote 34 novels, including The killer inside me (1953), After dark, my sweet (1955), The getaway (1959), The grifters (1963), and Pop. 1280 (1964); also wrote screenplays, teaming with Stanley Kubrick on The k...

Hill, Walter, 1942-

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