A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest provides a classic example of this theme.

From the trailer, Bogart as Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 film ) | The Maltese Falcon

For his first directing assignment, Huston chose Dashiell Hammett's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed at the box office in two earlier versions by Warners.

During the making of Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci toyed with the idea of adapting Dashiell Hammett's book Red Harvest into a feature film.

This adaptation, by Helen Borgers, was authorized and approved by Julie M. Rivett, Dashiell Hammett's granddaughter.

Both Jo Hammett, Dashiell Hammett's only living daughter, and Julie Rivett attended the premiere.

Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece, Including John Huston's Movie with Humphrey Bogart.

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon: A Critical Commentary.

Earlier that same year, the team had appeared in the movie Roadhouse Nights, ostensibly based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.

The movie presents Powell and Loy as Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles.

In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's " The Farewell Murder ", Nick ( William Powell ) and Nora ( Myrna Loy ) Charles are back in New York with Asta and a new arrival-Nicky Jr.

It is the fifth of the six Thin Man films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's dapper private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora.

Grave of Samuel Dashiell Hammett in Arlington National Cemetery, ( Section 12, Site 508 ) A lifetime's heavy consumption of alcohol and cigarettes worsened Hammett's tuberculosis contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman " jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker.

* Mundell, E. H. A List of the Original Appearances of Dashiell Hammett's Magazine Work, 1968, The Kent State University, Ohio.

The characters first appear in Dashiell Hammett's best-selling last novel The Thin Man ( 1934 ).

While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man ": brutally violent, and fuelled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes.

Mystery fiction can be divided into numerous categories, among them the " traditional mystery ", " legal thriller ", " medical thriller ", " cozy mystery ", " police procedural ", and " hardboiled " ( for instance, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon's main detective, Sam Spade ).

Philip Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.

The story was frequently anthologized even during Lovecraft's lifetime, including in Dashiell Hammett's 1931 collection Creeps by Night.

The name Chevalier Bayard is used in reference to a character in Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse.

Kurosawa stated that a major source for the plot was the 1942 film noir classic The Glass Key, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel.

Thus, the character can be viewed as an early example of the " Man with No Name " ( other examples of which appear in a number of earlier novels, including Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest ).

Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon.

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask.

An Introduction to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: Audio Guide.

* Dashiell Hammett-The Maltese Falcon

In 2009, with the approval of the estate of Dashiell Hammett, the veteran detective-story writer Joe Gores published Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON with Alfred A. Knopf, the original publisher of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Other examples of highly prized jackets include those on most of Ernest Hemingway's titles, and the first editions of books such as Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, among many others.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

The cover of seminal hardboiled magazine Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask, September 1929, featuring part 1 of its serialization of The Maltese Falcon ( novel ) | The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett.

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon.

Frye also portrayed Wilmer Cook ( the " gunsel ") in the original movie version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon in 1931, the role later played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in the remake a decade later.

Archer's name pays homage to Dashiell Hammett: " Miles Archer " was the name of Sam Spade's murdered partner in The Maltese Falcon.

" These films included the second version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Satan Met a Lady with Bette Davis, The Prince and the Pauper and another bio-pic about Florence Nightingale, The White Angel.

It is also mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, when detective Sam Spade tells the gunman Wilmer that his telling him to " shove off " " would go over big back on Seventh Avenue.

It would appear that some of the characters ' names are homages to noir prose authors, such as Dashiell himself standing for The Maltese Falcon < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Dashiell Hammett as well as Carol Ellroy borrowing her last name from LA Confidential < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s James Ellroy.

His arch-nemesis is Police Lt. Bradshaw ( voiced by Peter Bergman ), and he is also frequently menaced by a slimy little man called Rocky Rococo ( voiced by Phil Proctor ) who is based on Dashiell Hammett's Joel Cairo from The Maltese Falcon.

They were married on 29 December 1997 and have three sons: Dashiell John ( born 3 December 2001 ), Roman Robert ( born 23 April 2004 ), and Ignatius Martin ( born 13 April 2008 ).

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

Devil's Island is featured in the plot of The Dain Curse ( 1928 ), a novel by Dashiell Hammett, the American mystery writer.

They have three children, Isabelle ( born 1993 ), Dashiell ( born 1997 ), and Liam ( born 2001 ).

Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.

Her years in the US are reflected in On Dearborn Street ( not published until 1981 ), a love story that uses American slang in a manner not dissimilar to the early work of Dashiell Hammett.

British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: " Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.

He also translated the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe ( together with Arno Schmidt ), and novels by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.