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Hammett (1982)

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Director:

Wim Wenders

Starring:

Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Elisha Cook Jr., Jack Nance, Peter Boyle, Roy Kinnear, R.G. Armstrong, Sylvia Sidney, Royal Dano, Samuel Fuller

Genres:

Indie-Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Crime, Film Noir

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

M

Running Time:

97 min

Hammett

synopsis


Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at Hammett's San Francisco digs searching for a mysterious Chinese girl, Crystal Ling. He calls in a marker from Hammett's days at the detective agency to get his help in finding the girl, who turns out to be a very sexy and shrewd former prostitute and porn star. She has photographs of San Francisco's most influential citizens engaged in sexual fantasy with her and she means to turn them into a million-dollar payday. The tubercular Hammett must cope with an unfriendly police force, a mysterious gunsel intent on inflicting serious harm, and betrayal by supposed friends; to save the reputations of the powerful while tweaking their collective noses.

 
 

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