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.

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.

* Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ( 2008 ), a Grammy-nominated audiobook dramatization by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear, starring Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann, was released in 2008 by Blackstone Audio.

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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 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.

Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was in turn probably based on the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ).

For instance The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which itself was inspired by Red Harvest, an American detective novel by Dashiell Hammett.

The film's title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, in which " blood simple " is a term coined to describe the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.

Red Harvest ( 1929 ) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett.

The film's title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, in which " blood simple " is a term to describe the addled, fearful mindset of people after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.

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.

The title is a parody of Red Harvest, a novel by Dashiell Hammett, whose plot has been used for several movies including Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing.

Yojimbo is itself believed to have been based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.

Other stories borrow from pulp-era fiction ( The Sharp End is based on Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.

After fifteen years of absence, Dashiell Bad Horse returns to the " Rez " and is promptly arrested and taken to Lincoln Red Crow, President of the Oglala Tribal Council and Sheriff of the Tribal Police.

After a long, drawn-out fight with Dashiell he is arrested, only to escape before Red Crow and his men can take any action against him.

* Dashiell Hammett-Red Harvest, The Dain Curse

The background that the movie provides for Nick is totally at odds with the book by Dashiell Hammett.

Dashiell Hammett resolved this contradiction by ceasing to write mystery stories and turning to other pursuits.

The tough, stylish detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Jonathan Latimer, Erle Stanley Gardner and others explored the " mean streets " and corrupt underbelly of the United States.

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 original novel, written by Dashiell Hammett, was first published in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1929.

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A mystery novel admired by Dashiell Hammett.

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** Dashiell Hammett, American author ( d. 1961 )

He has three children — Quillon, Dashiell and Valinor — with his first wife, Julie.

Many of its situations, characters and dialogue are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, especially his 1931 novel The Glass Key and the 1942 film that was adapted from it.

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

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