"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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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).
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31 December 1982
While hitchhiking to escape an abusive home life, a teenage girl is picked up by a couple on a camping trip.
29 September 1982
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
08 December 1982
Little boy learns of his stepmother's infidelity and later witnesses a murder... but the shocks have thrown him into a hysterical paralysis, and it's almost impossible for him to communicate anything to anybody.
01 January 1982
The Bed opens with Jamie, a young man, looking round an old, deserted country house. Through flashback we see Jamie as a boy, scared out of his wits when his older sister and her boyfriend, left alone in the house to babysit Jamie for the evening, play cruel tricks on him.
01 January 1982
Two dorky Nevada worm wranglers are kidnapped by a gang of beautiful women as part of a plot to steal platinum from the Mafia.
23 December 1982
The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
05 February 1982
With India ready to enter into the Atomic Age, several international gangsters get together to steal the secret for the benefit of other nations.
25 September 1982
Mrs. Garrett and the girls travel to Paris, France. Mrs. Garrett takes a cooking class taught by a famous chef as the girls take classes at the sister school of Eastland.
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