Hammett (1982)

Directors

Wim Wenders

Cast

Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Elisha Cook Jr., David Patrick Kelly, Jack Nance, Lydia Lei, R.G. Armstrong, Richard Bradford, Samuel Fuller, Michael Chow, Sylvia Sidney, Elmer Kline

The story

San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to honor a debt. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as "Sam" is holed up in a cheap apartment, hard at work at his typewriter each day. He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits.

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