Overview:
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.| Status: | Released (1982-06-09) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $42,914 |
| Screen: | Joe Gores, Ross Thomas, Dennis O'Flaherty |
| Productions: | American Zoetrope |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | 广州话 / 廣州話, English |
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- 3463: Roy Kinnear - English Eddie Hagedorn
- 123057: Lydia Lei - Crystal Ling
- 3339: Elisha Cook Jr. - Eli the Taxi Driver
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- 2303: Wim Wenders - Director - Directing
- 7238: April Ferry - Costumer - Costume & Make-Up
- 1776: Francis Ford Coppola - Second Unit Director - Directing
- 64798: Marc Laub - Editor - Editing
- 162916: Randy Roberts - Editor - Editing
- 108143: Richard Bryce Goodman - Sound Mixer - Sound
- 1983922: Bob Johnston - Sound Editor - Sound
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
She's a disaster. Hammett is a fictional story about the great writer Dashiell Hammett (played by Frederic Forrest). The story finds the writer retired from the Pinkerton Detectice Agency and nursing bad lungs and a taste for the liquor. When old colleague Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle ....
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