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Hammett

Hammett

6.2/ 10

TMDB Rating

74

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1982

Release Year

98 min

Runtime

Drama
Thriller

Overview

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.

Keywords

based on novel or book
san francisco, california
chinatown
historical figure
femme fatale
neo-noir
1920s
crime fiction writer
semi-fiction

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7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

August 17, 2015

7
7/10

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 callin

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