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Hammett

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Fact meets fiction in Wim Wenders 's film inspired by the life of Dashiell Hammett , the author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
Starring
Frederic Forrest San Francisco, 1928: Hammett, a former Pinkerton agent turned author, is caught up in a complex Chinatown murder-mystery, involving an ex-partner in detection, stag movies, blackmail and a missing teenage girl.
0 FILMS: pages 41-67

Contributors

Unknown:
Wim Wenders
Unknown:
Dashiell Hammett
Unknown:
Frederic Forrest
Hammett:
Frederic Forrest
Jimmy Ryan:
Peter Boyle
Kit Conger/Sue Alabama:
Marilu Henner
English Eddie Hagedorn:
Roy Kinnear
Eli the taxi driver:
Elisha Cook Jr
Crystal Ling:
Lydia Lei
Lieutenant O'Mara:
R G Armstrong
Detective Bradford:
Richard Bradford
Fong Wei Tau:
Michael Chow
Punk:
David Patrick Kelly
Donaldina Cameron:
Sylvia Sidney
Gary Salt:
Jack Nance
Source: Radio Times

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