Hammett (film)

Anaconda III (2008)

Actors: Cornelia Stefan (miscellaneous crew), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Scott Conrad (editor), Benjamin Sacks (producer), Vasile Albinet (actor), David Hasselhoff (actor), Vlad Paunescu (producer), David E. Van Houten (miscellaneous crew), Alison Semenza (producer), Dana Toader (miscellaneous crew), Oana Topliceanu (miscellaneous crew), Serban Celea (actor), Bryan S. Sexton (producer), Zoltan Butuc (actor), Bogdan Uritescu (actor),

Plot: Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving a bloody trail of corpses. Murdoch runs, instructing his staff to clean up. They keep failing and being eaten like unsuspecting locals, some alive, even after enlisting ruthless big game hunter Hammett. The fast-growing pregnant monster sheds its skin, thus disabling the only tracking device.

Keywords: anaconda, babe-scientist, bar, barn, billionaire, blood, bomb, broken-leg, campfire, cancer
Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: They Can Taste Your Fear

Quotes:

Nick: [after seeing a skinless, partially-digested goat fall from the ceiling] Well that's mighty disturbin'...

Hammett: Where there's blood, there's more blood.

Beethoven's 4th (2001)

Actors: Jan McWilliams (miscellaneous crew), Joyce Brothers (actress), Art LaFleur (actor), Steve Christian (actor), John Hughes (writer), Judge Reinhold (actor), Julia Sweeney (actress), Jeff Coopwood (actor), Matt McCoy (actor), Tim Williams (miscellaneous crew), Amy Holden Jones (writer), Oorala Yamada (miscellaneous crew), David M. Evans (director), David M. Evans (actor), Kelli Konop (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Family,

Quotes:

Richard Newton: Oh no! Who let the dog in?

Richard Newton: Hey, where'd he go?::Beethoven: *slurping sounds*::Richard Newton: He's drinking from the toilet! He's downing the whole bowl!::Beth Newton: Oh!::Richard Newton: Keeping drinking boy, I'm gonna get my sketchpad!::Beth Newton: Brennan, go get Beethoven out of the bathroom...

Sara Newton: What do you think Mom meant when she said there wasn't enough room for Beethoven?::Brennan Newton: I think she meant we might have to give him away.::Sara Newton: [Grimace]::Brennan Newton: Oh come on, we can get something smaller...like a cow!

[Michelangelo, who the family thinks is Beethoven, picks up Brennan's napkin off the floor]::Brennan Newton: He just picked up my napkin.::Beth Newton: He folded your napkin.::Richard Newton: [about the dog's behavioral change] That's weird.

Just Ask for Diamond (1988)

Actors: Nickolas Grace (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Susannah York (actress), Bill Paterson (actor), Michael Medwin (actor), Trevor Jones (composer), Michael Robbins (actor), Patricia Hodge (actress), Patricia Hodge (actress), Peter Eyre (actor), Richard Turner (miscellaneous crew), José René Ruiz (actor), Gerald Campion (actor), Robert Bathurst (actor),

Plot: When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, Diamond sets out to unravel the mysterious plot.

Keywords: based-on-novel, brother, detective, independent-film, london-england, spoof, teenage-boy
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family,
Taglines: When all seems lost... just ask for Diamond!

Hammett (1982)

Actors: Sylvia Sidney (actress), Francis Ford Coppola (producer), Marilu Henner (actress), Samuel Fuller (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Marilu Henner (actress), Hank Worden (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Richard Bradford (actor), R.G. Armstrong (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Frederic Forrest (actor), John Barry (composer), Fred Roos (producer),

Plot: The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.

Keywords: 1920s, author, based-on-novel, beaten-to-death-with-a-baseball-bat, blackjack, blackmail, brothel, casino, character-name-in-title, chinatown
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery,
Taglines: The mystery writer who lived his own stories ! [Video] He Created 'The Maltese Falcon," "Sam Spade" and "The Thin Man". But He Didn't Write This Mystery-Thriller...He Lived It.

Quotes:

Hammett: I want two things. One, I want my story back, it's not much but its what I do. And two, I want to be left alone.

Crystal Ling: He was good.::Hammett: He was the best - in his heyday.

Hammett: Don't be a simp'; you don't think they're going to let you waltz, do you?... You're going up against one hundred, two hundred, three hundred million dollars. You're going up against the powerhouse, angel - the big steam.

Hammett: I was sure I heard you retired.::Doc Fallon: I heard you stopped drinkin'.::Hammett: I guess we were both wrong.

Doc Fallon: You know what my problem is? I'm a halfway honest man in a nine-tenths dishonest world. What's your problem?::Hammett: Suicide. [takes a drink]::Doc Fallon: My advice? Don't hesitate.

Hammett: Would you be dippy enough Angel to spend a little shoe leather?::Kit Conger: Doing what?::Hammett: Looking for Gary Salt.::Kit Conger: Who the hell are you now? Hammett the writer? or Hammett the detective?::Hammett: I think you left out Hammett the fool.

Hammett: Kit, this is Eli, last of the IWW organizers::Kit Conger: Are you really a Wobbly?::Eli the Taxi Driver: Naw, that's just Hammett talkin'. What I am now is sort of an anarchist, with syndicalist tendencies.

Julia (1977)

Actors: Hans Verner (actor), Jane Fonda (actress), John Glover (actor), Maximilian Schell (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Lambert Wilson (actor), Dora Doll (actress), Gérard Buhr (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Christian de Tillière (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Francis Lemaire (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Mark Metcalf (actor), Vanessa Redgrave (actress),

Plot: From "Pentimento," the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play "The Childrens' Hour" on Broadway. Not surprisingly, it centers on Lillian's relationship with her lifelong friend, Julia. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word "love" seems appropriate. While Julia attends the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiel Hammett at a New England beachhouse. After becoming a celebrated playwright, Lillian is invited to a writers conference in Russia. Julia, having taken up the battle against fascism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money through Nazi Germany which will assist in the Anti-Fascist cause. It is a dangerous mission especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to communist Russia. During a brief meeting with Julia on this trip, Lillian learns that Julia has had a child which is called Lilly. Shortly after returning to the States, Lillian is informed of Julia's murder. The details of her death are shrouded in secrecy. Lillian sadly travels to England to search for her namesake the child she had promised Julia to care for.

Keywords: 1930s, austria, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, berlin-germany, border, character-name-in-title, female-bonding, female-protagonist, friendship
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The story of two women whose friendship suddenly became a matter of life and death. Based on a true story.

Quotes:

Dottie: Way down deep he's very superficial.

Dashiell Hammett: [after reading Lillian's play] You better tear this up. It's not that it's bad, it's just not good enough, not for you.

Johann: If you cannot do it, do not do it.

Nikutai no hankô (1957)

Actors: Masumi Okada (actor), Shirô Osaka (actor), Kô Nishimura (actor), Michitaro Mizushima (actor), Keisuke Yukioka (actor), Masanori Tsujii (editor), Masaru Kamiyama (actor), Harold Conway (actor), Toyo Fukuda (actress), Chako van Leeuwen (actress), Harue Tone (actress), Urato Watanabe (composer), Tokuhei Miyahara (actor), Masuyo Suzumura (actress), Kyoji Aoyama (actor),

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Meet John Doe (1941)

Actors: Lew Davis (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Vernon Dent (actor),

Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Keywords: american-politics, baseball, character-name-in-title, christmas, club, convention, diner, father-figure, hoax, hobo
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: ALL AMERICA WANTS TO MEET THE "MR. DEEDS" OF 1941! (original print media ad - all caps)

Quotes:

The Colonel: I don't read no papers, and I don't listen to radios either. I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber, and I don't have to read it.

Long John Willoughby: Hey, stop worryin', Colonel, fifty bucks ain't gonna ruin me.::The Colonel: I've seen plenty of fellas start out with fifty bucks and wind up with a *bank* account!::Beany: Hey, what's wrong with a bank account, anyway?::The Colonel: And let me tell you, Long John, when you become a guy with a bank account, they gotcha! Yes sir, they gotcha!::Beany: Who's got him?::The Colonel: The helots!

Mayor Hawkins: O.K. folks, but remember your manners. No stampeding. Walk slow, like you do when you come to pay your taxes.

Angelface: [after Willoughby gives the Colonel the $50 to give away] Say, he's giving it away. I better get me some of that::Beany: Hey, come back here you helot.

D. B. Norton: You'll play your cards right and you'll never have to worry about money again.

D. B. Norton: From now on, I think you'd better work directly with me.

The Colonel: $5,000. Holy mackerel! I can see the helots coming now. A whole army of them.

Ann: Everything in that speech is what a certain man believed in. He was my father. When he talked people listened. They will listen to you too.

Henry Connel: Listen, if that guy lays an egg I want to get *something* out of it! I'm getting a Jane Doe ready.

Mayor Hawkins: No you can't see him, you didn't vote for me in the last election. Shame on you.