Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes

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"The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse ho...

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ISBN:

9781542041829
9781542041805

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents:

Alpha dog
Anatomy of a murder
Arsenic and old lace
Badlands
Blood & orchids
Body snatcher
Butterfield 8
Chicago and Roxie Hart
Child 44
Dirty Harry
Eaten alive!
Elephant
Five star final
Frenzy
Fugitive
Fury
High Sierra
Hills have eyes
Hitch-hiker
Honeymoon killers
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
M
Monsieur Verdoux
Murder on the Orient Express
Night of the hunter
Phenix City story
Place in the sun
Psycho
Rope
Scream
Shadow of a doubt
Strangers
Targets
10 to midnight
To die for
While the city sleeps
Woman's vengeance
You only live once
Young savages

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3021309

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