A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Grifters

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Ronald Schwartz
Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1991, A Survey of the Films of 1990
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

Articles with an entry on The Grifters

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49