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Jun 25, 2024 · Before he was a writer, Hammett was a detective for the famous independent Pinkerton Detective Agency, working mainly out of the San Francisco office, though for a brief time after WWI, he worked in the Spokane office, which brought him to cases all over the Inland Northwest and Montana.
Jul 3, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett — ‘The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.’.
Jul 4, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett was a real-life noir story as he was among those ensnared in the Red Scare of the early 50s, a time when any involvement with Communism was considered criminal. Duff’s association with Hammett—simply playing the author’s best-known character—was enough to get the actor blacklisted.
2 days ago · Not only the greatest film noir movie ever, but one of the most iconic and defining Hollywood classics as well, The Maltese Falcon is based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 detective novel of the same ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Hammett and Yeggs. As the year began I was reading all Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories, and so it made sense to me to finally watch CITY STREETS, the film he wrote the story for. It’s good, but it didn’t seem as dazzling as a film written by Hammett and directed by Mamoulian ought to be.
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Jul 3, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett — ‘This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.’
Jun 27, 2024 · James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.