Review of Hammett (1982) by Philip French for The Guardian — 21 Nov 2005
It's a stylish, entertaining movie, starring Frederic Forrest (a dead ringer for Hammett, bar the height) as a drinking, smoking, coughing and typewriter-bashing writer lured back into detection by an old Pinkerton associate (Peter Boyle) and stumbling into the plot of The Maltese Falcon.
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This review of Hammett (1982) was written by Philip French and published by The Guardian on 21 Nov 2005.
Hammett has generally received positive reviews.
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