Hammett (1982)

Directed by

Wim Wenders

Genre

drama film, biographical film, crime film, mystery film, neo-noir, detective film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective story writer gets pulled into a real-life mystery that feels like one of his own plots. He navigates a web of old friends and shady characters in 1920s San Francisco.

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What happens

Hammett is a 1982 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammett's neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, an old friend from Hammett's days as a Pinkerton agent. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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