Title:
Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes
Author:
Schechter, Harold, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition
Publication Information:
New York : Little A, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
xix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
In this collection of essays, true-crime historian Schechter reveals the real-life stories behind classic movies.
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-- but found inspiration in true events. Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. Take a trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction, and discover the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up. -- adapted from jacket
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9781542041829
9781542041805
Format :
Book
