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Only Good Ones
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Fire in the Hole
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When the Women Come Out to Dance
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Showdown at Checotah
Louly and Pretty Boy
Chick Killer (2011)
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52 Pickup
Desperado
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Glitz (TV)
Cat Chaser
Border Shootout
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Get Shorty
Last Stand at Saber River
Pronto
Touch
Elmore Leonard’s Gold Coast (TV)
Jackie Brown
Maximum Bob
Out of Sight
Karen Sisco
The Big Bounce (II)
Be Cool (2005)
The Ambassador
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Killshot (2009)
Freaky Deaky
The Tonto Woman
Sparks
Justified
Life of Crime

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Openings to Elmore Leonard Novels

Every time they got a call from the leper hospital to pick up a body Jack Delaney would feel himself coming down with the flu or something. - BANDITS

The night Vincent was shot he saw it coming. - GLITZ

“He’s been taking pictures three years, look at the work Maurice said. “Here, this guy. Look at the expression. Who’s he remind you of?” - LABRAVA

Stick said he wasn’t going if they had to pick up anything. Rainy said no, there wasn’t any product in the deal; all they had to do was drop a bag. Stick said, “And the guy’s giving you five grand?” “It makes him feel important,” Rainy said, “it’s how it’s done. Listen, this’s the big time, man, I’m taking you uptown.” - STICK

Moran’s first impression of Nolen Tyner: he looked like a high risk, the kind of guy who falls asleep smoking in bed. No luggage except for a six-pack of beer on the counter and the Miami Herald folded under his arm. -CAT CHASER

In the winter of 1981 a multimillionaire by the name of Robinson Daniels shot a Haitian refugee who had broken into his home in Palm Beach. - SPLIT IMAGES

One day Karen DiCilia put a few observations together and realized her husband Frank was sleeping with a real estate woman in Boca. - GOLD COAST

A friend of Ryan’s said to him one time, “Yeah, but at least you don’t take any shit from anybody.” Ryan said, “I don’t know, the way things’ve been going, maybe it’s about time I started taking some. - UNKNOWN MAN NO. 89

He could not get used to going to the girl’s apartment. - 52 PICKUP

Frank Sinatra, Jr. was saying, “I don’t have to take this,” getting up out of the guest chair, walking out. Howard Hart was grinning at him with his capped teeth. - TOUCH

Chris Mankowski’s last day on the job, two in the afternoon, two hours to go, he got a call to dispose of a bomb. - FREAKY DEAKY

 

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