A one-hour public television (PBS) biography of Dashiell Hammett, creator of the "hardboiled" modern detective novel and author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." It follows Hammett's life from Pinkerton detective in San Francisco to his career as fiction and screen writer, companion of playwright Lillian Hellman, and leftwing political activist. The biography investigates why Hammett stopped writing at the height of his fame.
Stephen Talbot
Director, Writer
Paul Frees
Narrator (voice)
Lyle Talbot
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Lillian Hellman
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Being James Bond77%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Hawking76%
Above Majestic73%
28 Up75%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Sherman's March67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sidney70%
35 Up76%
My Mom Jayne79%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
