Hammett (film)

Hammett
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWim Wenders
Screenplay byRoss Thomas
Dennis O'Flaherty
Story byThomas Pope
Based onHammett
by Joe Gores
Produced byRonald Colby
Don Guest
Fred Roos
StarringFrederic Forrest
Peter Boyle
Marilu Henner
Roy Kinnear
CinematographyJoseph Biroc
Philip H. Lathrop[1]
Edited byJanice Hampton
Marc Laub
Robert Q. Lovett
Randy Roberts
Music byJohn Barry
Production
company
Distributed byOrion Pictures
Warner Bros.
Release date
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7 million[2]
Box office$42,914

Hammett is a 1982 American neo-noir[3] mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis O'Flaherty, based on the novel of the same name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who gets caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammett's neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, an old friend from Hammett's days as a Pinkerton agent. The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

  1. ^ "Joseph F. Biroc".
  2. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  3. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Hammett". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-12.