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.

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.

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.

The film's story was written by Dashiell Hammett, based on his characters Nick and Nora, but not a particular novel or short story.

Like the others, it stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett.

Van Dyke, who died in 1943, and the script was one of two not written by the husband and wife team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich who had worked with Dashiell Hammett to develop the Nick and Nora characters earlier in the series.

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

In 2011, magazine editor Andrew Gulli found fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin.

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man.

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.

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

In 1934, Dashiell Hammett created the comic strip Secret Agent X9, illustrated by Alex Raymond, which contained a locked-room episode, albeit a rather feeble one.

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.

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

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 ).

While there she met and fell in love with a mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett.

Based on The Thin Man novel by Dashiell Hammett, these were witty, sophisticated romps that combined elements of the screwball comedy film within a complex murder mystery plot.

It evokes both the milieu and style of other mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Ross Macdonald, all of whom Bradbury names in the book's dedication, and James Crumley, after whom Bradbury named his detective.