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Hammett

Rating:PG
Genre:Drama
Release Date:January 1, 1982
Running time:95 minutes
Cast:Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Elisha Cook Jr.
Director:Wim Wenders
Writer:Joe Gores, Dennis O'Flaherty

Description: An ultra-noir hommage to writer Dashiell Hammett in which fact (Hammett was once a detective) is blended with fictionalized references to Hammett''s hard-boiled crime fiction The Maltese Falcon (USA/) and other works.

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