"He created "The Maltese Falcon," "Sam Spade" and "The Thin Man." But he didn't write this mystery thriller...he lived it." 09 June 1982 Drama, Thriller 98 mins
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.
Watch the official Hammett 1982 trailer in HD below or find more Hammett videos on Vidimovie.
Frederic Forrest as Hammett
Peter Boyle as Jimmy Ryan
Marilu Henner as Kit Conger / Sue Alabama
Roy Kinnear as English Eddie Hagedorn
Lydia Lei as Crystal Ling
Elisha Cook Jr. as Eli the Taxi Driver
David Patrick Kelly as The Punk
R.G. Armstrong as Lt. O'Mara
Richard Bradford as Detective Bradford
Jack Nance as Gary Salt
Michael Chow as Fong Wei Tau
Sylvia Sidney as Donaldina Cameron
Elmer Kline as Doc Fallon
Royal Dano as Pops
Samuel Fuller as Old Man in Pool Hall
Lloyd Kino as Barber
Wim Wenders Director
April Ferry Costumer
Dennis O'Flaherty Screenplay
Ross Thomas Screenplay
Ronald Colby Producer
Don Guest Producer
Fred Roos Producer
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Joseph F. Biroc Director of Photography
Janice Hampton Editor
Marc Laub Editor
Robert Q. Lovett Editor
Randy Roberts Editor
Dean Tavoularis Production Design
Leon Ericksen Art Direction
Angelo P. Graham Art Direction
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Argentina 14 October 1982
Brazil 10 July 1987
Canada 12 September 1982
Switzerland 01 August 1982
Germany 13 January 1983
Denmark 22 April 1983
Finland 04 October 1985
France 09 June 1982
United Kingdom 13 March 1987
Italy 11 November 1983
Japan 14 December 1985
Netherlands 19 July 1984
Portugal 09 November 1984
Sweden 29 April 1983
United States 17 September 1982
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25 May 1969
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21 November 1931
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
23 April 1953
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
07 April 1939
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights.
15 January 1948
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02 August 1996
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26 July 1955
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
25 December 1963
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Detective Dashiell Hammett thought that he had left his old life behind when he retired to become a writer. But when his ex-boss brings him on for one last case ...
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Executive producer Francis Ford Coppola with director Wim Wenders during the production of HAMMETT (1982).
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1982:
01 January 1982
The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša.
01 January 1982
Original television production for young people. A dramatically unusual story of the most elusive meeting of former classmates from primary school, who, thanks to their first social experiences, corrected adolescent swarms and clarified their possibilities for real self-employment, their life desires and creative goals in life.
11 June 1982
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home.
25 June 1982
Shankar is a self-starter who is scorned and expelled from the family by his virago stepmother. However, he well-earns with his hard work and lives buoyant with his wife Sona and a child Munna.
01 January 1982
Women are beaten, raped, tortured and killed in brutal prison.
11 January 1982
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music.
01 January 1982
Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves.
20 September 1982
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.
25 June 1982
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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