COUP DE TORCHON (Aka CLEAN SLATE) (1981)

 

Directed By: Bertrand Tavernier 

Written By: Bertrand Tavernier and Jean Aurenche

Based On The Novel “Pop. 1280” By: Jim Thompson 

Cinematography: Pierre-William Glenn

Editor: Armand Psenny 

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stephane Andean, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand, Irene Skobline, Michael Beaune, Jean Champion, Victor Garrivier 

1938, in a French-African colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.

THE GETAWAY (REMAKE) (1994)

Directed By: Roger Donaldson 
Written By: Amy Holden Jones & Walter Hill 
Based On The Novel By: Jim Thompson 
Cinematography By: Peter Menzies Jr. 
Editor: Conrad Buff 


Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Madsen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Woods, Richard Farnsworth, David Morse, Burton Gilliam

AFTER DARK MY SWEET (1990)

Directed By: James Foley Written By: James Foley & Robert Redlin Based on the novel by: Jim Thompson Cinematography By: Mark Plummer Editor: Howard E. Smith Cast: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern