The Blues Brothers. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Blues Brothers
Miami Mitch, 1980
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John Landis, 1980

Blues vocalist and petty criminal Joliet Jake Blues is paroled on good behavior grounds from Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a five-year sentence, and is picked up by his blood brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered, decommissioned police car. The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary the Penguin Stigmata and old friend Curtis that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected.


The Grifters. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1963 book
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The Grifters
Jim Thompson, 1963
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Stephen Frears, 1990

Lilly Dillon is a veteran con artist. She works for Bobo Justus, a mob bookmaker, making large cash bets at race tracks to lower the odds of longshots. On her way to La Jolla for the horse races, she stops in Los Angeles to visit her son Roy, a small-time grifter whom she has not seen in eight years.


Rambo: First Blood Part II. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Rambo: First Blood, Part II
David Morrell, 1985
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George P. Cosmatos, 1985

Three years after the events in Hope, Washington, former US Army Green Beret John Rambo is visited at a prison labor camp by his old commander, Colonel Sam Trautman. Rambo is temporarily reinstated into the US Army and instructed only to photograph a possible camp and not to rescue any prisoners or engage enemy personnel, as they will be retrieved by a better equipped extraction team upon his return.