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Hammett (1982)
Directed by Wim Wenders
“He created "The Maltese Falcon," "Sam Spade" and "The Thin Man." But he didn't write this mystery thriller...he lived it.”
Drama, Thriller · 1h 38m
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Cast
Frederic Forrest
Hammett
Peter Boyle
Jimmy Ryan
Marilu Henner
Kit Conger / Sue Alabama
Roy Kinnear
English Eddie Hagedorn
Lydia Lei
Crystal Ling
Elisha Cook Jr.
Eli the Taxi Driver
David Patrick Kelly
The Punk
R.G. Armstrong
Lt. O'Mara
Richard Bradford
Detective Bradford
Jack Nance
Gary Salt
Michael Chow
Fong Wei Tau
Sylvia Sidney
Donaldina Cameron
Crew
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Screenplay
- Dennis O'Flaherty, Ross Thomas
- Novel
- Joe Gores
- Director of Photography
- Joseph F. Biroc
- Original Music Composer
- John Barry
- Editor
- Marc Laub, Randy Roberts, Robert Q. Lovett, Janice Hampton
- Producer
- Fred Roos, Ronald Colby, Don Guest
Details
- Release date
- 1982-06-09
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Cantonese, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- American Zoetrope