![]() Sometimes this geographical shift is echoed by the storyline, resembling that of the novel in the same way that the mountains of Montana mirror the vast flatlands of the Texas oilfields, but at other times, such as the jail scene between Ford and Johnny (now Hispanic rather than Greek) the dialogue is lifted straight from the novel. Director Burt Kennedy transposes Central City Texas to Montana. The first movie version wasn’t until 1976, and it featured Stacey Keach as Lou Ford. ![]() The Killer Inside Me is astonishingly frank for 1952, so much so that the implications of sadistic sex, paedophilia and substance abuse would make anyone writing a screenplay tread very warily indeed. For a detailed review of the novel, click the image below. Behind the bland mask he is, however, manipulative sexual sadist and a stone cold killer. ![]() The central character is Lou Ford, an apparently mild mannered Texas Deputy Sheriff. In 1952, Jim Thompson published The Killer Inside Me, the novel which was to make his name. ![]()
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