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 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.

* Woman in the Dark ( 1934 ) also available as Woman In The Shadows, based on a Dashiell Hammett story

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

* 1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer ( b. 1894 )

A mystery novel admired by Dashiell Hammett.

* January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer ( b. 1894 )

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

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 ).

* Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook ( 1969 )-Critical study

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.

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

The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook.

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

* The Apartment of Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade

Category: Novels by Dashiell Hammett

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.

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.

A U. S. reaction to the cozy conventionality of British murder mysteries was the American " hard-boiled " school of crime writing of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, among others.

St. Mary's County was the birthplace of Dashiell Hammett, and Orlando " Tubby " Smith, head basketball coach at the University of Minnesota.

In the case of U. S. crime fiction, writers that so far had been regarded as the authors of nothing but " pulp fiction " — Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and others — were gradually seen in a new light.

Nearby, Dashiell Hammett, noted novelist, was born on May 27, 1894.

Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett, 1985, Southern Illinois University Press.

Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett, 1981, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, New York

* Nolan, William F. Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook, 1969, McNally & Lofin, Santa Barbara.

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.

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.

Dashiell Hammett: A Life, 1983, Random House, New York.

Dashiell Hammett, 1983, Twayne, New York.

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.

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

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.

* 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.

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.