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Posts Tagged "Dashiell Hammett"
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Hammett **** (1982, Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner) – Classic Movie Review 6,524
Wim Wenders’s eye-catching and very worthy 1982 neo noir film homage to the crime thriller and its great writer Dashiell Hammett has the tasteful stamp of its producer Francis Ford Coppola all over it. Coppola […]
The Glass Key **** (1935, George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 4928
Frank Tuttle’s 1935 crime mystery film The Glass Key is the excellent first movie of the 1931 Dashiell Hammett classic thriller novel, with its stars George Raft and Claire Dodd ideally paired. ‘He asks no […]
Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051
Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]
Watch on the Rhine **** (1943, Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, George Coulouris, Beulah Bondi, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 2,740
The strong, tense 1943 wartime patriotic thriller film Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, who won a deserved Best Actor Oscar as a German underground patriot harassed by Hitler’s men in Washington DC. Bette […]
Satan Met a Lady *** (1936, Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Marie Wilson, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2466
When Warner Bros tried to re-release its pre-Code 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon early in 1936, the Production Code Office was censoring movies and it refused approval due to the film’s supposedly ‘lewd’ content. So, with censorship […]
The Maltese Falcon **** (1931, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 2,465
Warner Bros’ 1931 thriller The Maltese Falcon is the first film of Dashiell Hammett’s famous crime novel. Ricardo Cortez stars as the wisecracking, cynical San Francisco gumshoe Sam Spade, who sets off on the trail […]
Another Thin Man **** (1939, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 2264
The bubbly 1939 comedy detective thriller film Another Thin Man is another enjoyable Thin Man mystery, the third in the MGM six-movie franchise, based on Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op story The Farewell Murder. Director W […]