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Hammett (1982)

PG 17-09-1982 (US) Drama, Thriller 1h 38m

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He created "The Maltese Falcon," "Sam Spade" and "The Thin Man." But he didn't write this mystery thriller...he lived it.

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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.

Wim Wenders

Director
Joe Gores

Novel
Dennis O'Flaherty

Screenplay
Ross Thomas

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Elenco Principal

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
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Escrita por John Chard em 17 agosto 2015

She's a disaster.

Hammett is a fictional story about the great writer Dashiell Hammett (played by Frederic Forrest). The story finds the writer retired from the Pinkerton Detectice Agency and nursing bad lungs and a taste for the liquor. When old colleague Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle) comes a calling, Hammett finds himself down in Frisco's Chinatown district in it up to his neck in muck and grime.

The back story to the production of Hammett is long and disappointing, all of which makes for fascinating reading and available at the click of a mouse. The film we have to view now may not be the... continuar a ler.

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