A Swell-Looking BabeA Swell-Looking Babe is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson.PlotDusty, a bellboy looking to raise enough money for medical school, falls for the wrong woman.Film adaptationA Swell-Looking Babe was adapted into the 1996 film Hit Me starring Elias Koteas as the bellboy, who is renamed "Sonny" in the film adaptation.