hammett

Director: wim wenders

Actor: frederic forrest,peter boyle,marilu henner,roy kinnear

Data Published: Wed Jun 09 1982

Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Key Words: neo noir,metafiction,femme fatale,missing person,writer

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085640/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammett_(film)

Description: Hammett is a movie starring Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, and Marilu Henner. Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress'...

Plot: 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. One day, a friend and mentor from his Pinkerton days, Jimmy Ryan, turns up with a request, that Hammett help him track down a Chinese prostitute named Crystal Ling in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, an area Hammett is more familiar with than Ryan is. Hammett is soon pulled into a multi-layered plot, losing the only copy of his manuscript, wondering how and why Ryan has vanished, being followed by a tough-talking gunsel, discovering a million-dollar blackmail scheme and being deceived by the diabolical Crystal, right up to a final confrontation near the San Francisco wharf.