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“Killing Them Softly”, starring Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini of “The Sopranos”, debuted Tuesday (May 22, 2012) at the Cannes Film Festival.
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It’s a film about American crime directed by Andrew Dominik based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins.
“Killing Them Softly” is about a professional enforcer named Jackie Cogan, who investigates a heist that transpired during a mob-protected poker game.
“One night, I just happened to watch the film ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ on TV and I thought that dialogue fantastic,” Dominik says. “When I looked up the author of the novel it was based on, I found out that Higgins had been a prosecuting assistant attorney in Boston for twenty years, so I figured, hey, this guy really knows what he’s writing about.”
According to the Wall Street Journal, Dominik then ordered every book he could find still in print by Higgins.
- Ace King, Gambling911.com
