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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Roy Kinnear, Richard Bradford, David Patrick Kelly, Lydia Lei, Sylvia Sidney, Frederic Forrest, R.G. Armstrong, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Biography, Biopic [feature], Mystery, Period piece, Film adaptation, Crime Thriller, Biographical film, Neo-noir

Hammett is a 1982 homage to noir films and pulp fiction directed by Wim Wenders. The film is a fictionalized story about writer Dashiell Hammett, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. It stars Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner and Peter Boyle. San Francisco-based crime novelist 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. German director... MORE

Hammett is a 1982 homage to noir films and pulp fiction directed by Wim Wenders. The film is a fictionalized story about writer Dashiell Hammett, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. It stars Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner and Peter Boyle. San Francisco-based crime novelist 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. German director Wenders was hired by Francis Ford Coppola to direct this film, which was to be his American debut feature. "But," according to one source, "by the time the final version was released in 1982, only 30 percent of Wenders' footage remained, and the rest was completely reshot by Coppola, whose mere 'executive producer' credit is just a technicality." Wenders made a short film called Reverse Angle documenting his disputes with Coppola surrounding the making of Hammett. As the A.V. Club review states, "A Coppola or Wenders commentary track might have sorted things out a bit—or at least settled an old LESS