Dashiell Hammett documentary

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  • @asharpmajor6740
    @asharpmajor6740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Great to have so many people who knew Hammett personally speaking in the documentary. Another ten years and it would probably have been too late for many of them

    • @jabbermocky4520
      @jabbermocky4520 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Agree. This is the only firsthand documentary commentary I've seen about Hammett. It's very well done. Another 10 years, man, and it never would have happened.

  • @eawe
    @eawe ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I have just discovered this amazing channel.
    As an avid reader of the "vintage" authors, I truly appreciate these documentaries. Thank you.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    In 1992 I climbed out the window of my downtown Phoenix apartment and left behind a career, an apartment and a lifetime of connections to live in the Jemez mountains of New Mexico as an artist. I had never read about Flitcraft or what he did by way of Hammett's parable, but it now seems to apply rather sharply.
    I recommend anyone to do the same: climb out the window of your life, and start again. The ''second act'' of your play can have as little or as much to do with the first as YOU DECIDE.

    • @cruisepaige
      @cruisepaige ปีที่แล้ว +5

      100%! I was a corporate lawyer and I ditched it all to live the dolce vita as a translator in Italy!

    • @JonathanBrown1
      @JonathanBrown1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Why did you climb out the window, instead of the door?

    • @blackbird5634
      @blackbird5634 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JonathanBrown1 Well first of all, I needed to get out of a bad situation. And 2nd, it is an apt metaphor for leaving behind a toxic and self damaging way of living in an unexpected, and imaginative way. So I climbed out the window, and later, when the coast was clear, I came back, packed my car, and took off.
      *My bills were paid, my job was done, there was nothing holding me to that particular town or state.

    • @alidabaxter5849
      @alidabaxter5849 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I climbed out of a terrible marriage - you may lose your possessions but you keep your mind.

  • @adamodeo9320
    @adamodeo9320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Kathleen turner's voice is a joy to the ears.

  • @appnzllr
    @appnzllr ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I respect Hammett for his writing and for knowing when to stop writing. Too many authors continue without the same level of story ideas.

    • @MrEdWeirdoShow
      @MrEdWeirdoShow ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hemingway also did a few short and sweet detective type things.
      But then brevity was already part of his style, anyway.

    • @Rustsamurai1
      @Rustsamurai1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Didn't he keep trying? Is writing either manic or absent? If you cannot write, you do not write?And in not writing from no longer being able, one either drinks oneself to the grave, or becomes a brick layer's labourer; perhaps fooling oneself or others that the experience will be material for a story? Is carrying a bottle of vodka or a loaded hod not self-imposed punishment for not 'making the cut'/being 'washed-up'?
      A fascinating documentary.

  • @normanCabral1
    @normanCabral1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A superb and enthralling study of the man, his life, work and demons, put forth via excellent narration.

  • @tonydialsr7190
    @tonydialsr7190 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a great program. Just outstanding to have interviews that knew the man. Thanks so much.

  • @JCPJCPJCP
    @JCPJCPJCP ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I read a couple of his novels decades ago, when I was reading plenty of fiction.
    This interesting documentary provides plenty of info about an unusual, distinctive life.
    Thanks again, Paul.

  • @indy_go_blue6048
    @indy_go_blue6048 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm lucky to have a single volume collection of all 5 of Hammett's novels. I bought it in '93 at B&N's discount section for $7.99.

    • @Jinke888
      @Jinke888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I bought mine for 99 pence in London 2 years ago

  • @JamesBrown-ij1px
    @JamesBrown-ij1px 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Outstanding. In maturity, so many 'dots' are being connected for me in learning more about Dashiell Hammett: his relationship with Lillian Hellman (which I first learned about in the movie 'Julia'), continuing the legacy of 'Detective' stories from my favorites Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle from the English tradition to that of the American, his involvement in the 'Red Scare' and the McCarthy Era, and establishing a cornerstone of the classic Hollywood 'Film Noir' genre. And, of course, seductively narrated by the incomparable voice and style of Kathleen Turner, who would continue the Film Noir tradition to a new generation (myself included) in the modern classic 'Body Heat'. Thank you.

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Much welcome. Well said!

    • @wellesradio
      @wellesradio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really don’t see the connection between Christie and Hammett. It’s like saying Oscar Wilde was influenced by Mark Twain.

  • @berhanegebriel3155
    @berhanegebriel3155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Another one of the very BEST (A+) documentaries.

  • @AB-kg6rk
    @AB-kg6rk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thanks for posting. Good stuff 😃

  • @Daunou777
    @Daunou777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Very well done. Kathleen Turner was the perfect narrator.

    • @robertodelosangeles3247
      @robertodelosangeles3247 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Ha! After pushing play and only listening without watching for opening credits or anything, for the first 8 minutes I coulda sworn it was Lauren Bacall! But then I read your comment and immediately realized you’re right. Kathleen Turner does have a very distinct, unmistakable voice!

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I didn’t even recognize her at first

    • @seanwieland9763
      @seanwieland9763 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      She’s not bad, she’s just drawn that way.

    • @matthewschwartz6607
      @matthewschwartz6607 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robertodelosangeles3247 - Is she still acting?

    • @robertodelosangeles3247
      @robertodelosangeles3247 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@matthewschwartz6607 She had a pretty amusing cameo as Michael Douglas’ wife in that Netflix series he did recently with Alan Arkin. But other than that I ain’t seen her

  • @brianpurdy6072
    @brianpurdy6072 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This documentary is a fine piece of work. It offers a balanced and nuanced view of the man, his work and the times in which he lived. It particularly benefits by the testimony of many who knew him as he was, not as the semi-mythic figure he became and even now, mostly remains. It would rate it as 'top drawer'.

  • @numbersix8919
    @numbersix8919 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice documentary! I like all these interviewees, especially Joan Mellen and her take on Hammett's political commitment.

  • @joe18750
    @joe18750 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was born after the Golden Age of Radio. However, I access, The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, nearly every day on my Echo Dot. Effie and Sam are great characters and Howard Duff as Sam, is my favorite. What great stories. Thanks for the inside baseball on a truly wonderful writer.

    • @stutzbearcat5624
      @stutzbearcat5624 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Howard & Lurene Tuttle - THE BEST!!

    • @joe18750
      @joe18750 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stutzbearcat5624 Yes! No disrespect intended by not mentioning Ms. Tuttle by name. The little inflections in her voice were a crack up. Thanx for the FYI.

    • @stutzbearcat5624
      @stutzbearcat5624 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joe18750
      She played - I think Ma Barker(?) - in an actual feature movie in the late 50s. She's freaking great!!!

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan2589 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Unable to write for 30 years would have been excruciating

  • @markbeames7852
    @markbeames7852 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    27:38 Victor Moore famous for "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire.

  • @albertgrant1017
    @albertgrant1017 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Great video I loved The Continental Op and Sam Spade. His work as a detective made his novels and stories realistic !

  • @kentjensen4504
    @kentjensen4504 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This documentary is perfectly done.

  • @QPRTokyo
    @QPRTokyo ปีที่แล้ว +6

    San Francisco changed a lot.. the biggest understatement of all time.

  • @kengruz669
    @kengruz669 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If you are unable to provide captions for this, can you activate auto-subtitling?

  • @donaldkelly3983
    @donaldkelly3983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    That was great! Hammett is another favorite American writer of mine. Thanks for this video.

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You're welcome. Same here! I love The Thin Man and have seen all six movies. (I like the first one best)

  • @steveculbert4039
    @steveculbert4039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a fine video documentary about a man who has always interested me. Thank you.

  • @Denver_Risley
    @Denver_Risley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "What's that man doing in my drawers..." I did the same thing he did!

  • @janetsaeger8439
    @janetsaeger8439 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you. Very engrossing. Have read almost all Hammett's detective stories and of course have watched The Thin Man movie many times. Late '50s a tv series was created with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. While not as suave and polished as William Powell and Myrna Loy with snappy dialogue, still fun entertainment.

    • @emmitstewart1921
      @emmitstewart1921 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember. I loved that series at the time.

  • @ronniwright8315
    @ronniwright8315 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great bio thank you

  • @shangrila73eldorado
    @shangrila73eldorado 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Proclaiming New Orleans as an anti-Semitic city is based on what?

    • @sgabig
      @sgabig ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I guess since New Orleans is predominantly Catholic & its football 🏈 team is named the saints ... I guess it depends on how you define antisemitism

    • @GeorgeSmileyOBE
      @GeorgeSmileyOBE ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is nuts. The New Orleans Jews are all over the place, Tulane has two Jewish fraternities, and Sophie Newcomb college is for jewish southern belles like Sweetbriar is for prosperous Presbyterian daughters.

    • @Epidian
      @Epidian ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe they don't like other semites like Arabs.

    • @sulevisydanmaa9981
      @sulevisydanmaa9981 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GeorgeSmileyOBE INTERESTING. "OBE" is 4 out of body experience or Order Of The British Empire ? Sure u not talkin bout dem Khazars ....()(?). How come this dated 80 s doc can proclaim such an elementary lapsus ? Lillian Hellman loox like big sys of Lili Palmer .. .. .

  • @MrEdWeirdoShow
    @MrEdWeirdoShow ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Many if not most editors required a set page count from writers, as if they were ordering from a fast food joint.
    It was up to the writer to stretch the meal as close to the goal as possible, without overpowering readers with too much onion. Luckily I began at the end of the 20th century, and not the start.

  • @dwaynebrue6028
    @dwaynebrue6028 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dashiell Hammett was The Greatest!!

  • @kafkaesque7737
    @kafkaesque7737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Love your documentaries. Are there any documentaries about E. E. Cummings or surrealist poets/writers?

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks! I haven't found a good one on Cummings yet, but I'll look into him and those other ones. If not, I'll make a voice over mini-doc on Cummings for when I eventually run out.

    • @kafkaesque7737
      @kafkaesque7737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AuthorDocumentaries thank you!!

  • @superglue6298
    @superglue6298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Im here because everyone calls me this guy as my names Dashiell lol

    • @averycardosia2486
      @averycardosia2486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At least you were named after someone cool

  • @DavidRomero-y6s
    @DavidRomero-y6s 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great documentary. I learned a lot. Thank you for this.

  • @Amphy002
    @Amphy002 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a great documentary. As intelligent as its subject.

  • @jacquetracy3194
    @jacquetracy3194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love Dashiell Hammett! I try to find anything he has written ! So handsome 😍! I'm from Baltimore MD were he lived. I'm very proud of that . I didn't know that he went through the McCarthy torture !!! Dashiell Hammett fought in two world wars the man loved this country and McCarthy put him and other victims through hell! Dashiell we love you. Thank you for serving and your wonderful works 💗

    • @Donjasoni
      @Donjasoni ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He’s originally from St. Mary’s County. I live in bmore too. I didn’t realize he lived in bmore later. Im from St. Mary’s originally. There are still relatives of his there.

    • @bovnycccoperalover3579
      @bovnycccoperalover3579 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      While it's McCarthy who gets a rap deservedly, it's HUAC, run by J. Parnell Jones, who went after Hollywood people they thought were "reds". Jones, himself, was later arrested for embezzlement and served in the same prison as one of the Hollywood Ten. I call that irony. It irks me that this evil man as not as infamous as McCarthy. In many years, he did more damage. Hellman wrote a blistering letter to HUAC when summoned in 1952. Ah was blacklisted and lived and wrote in exile in Europe. She wrote a nonfiction book about it, " Scoundrel Time".

  • @irenemax3574
    @irenemax3574 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "He (Hammett) created the terms of their relationship before they even met." I pause the video to try to figure out what that means. Hammett was playing a role in his relationship with Hellman: he played the strong silent withdrawn and withdrawing (of love, affection, flattery) type of guy. His behaviour elicits respones from Hellman that include whining, whinging, begging, berating, and clinging. ??? That interpretation doesn't allow Hellman any agency: she's nothing more than the embodiment of a fictional character from Hammett's novels.
    I see Hellman as more dominant than Hammett in that relationship, for the most part, in spite of her clingy, beggy aspects. Hammett wrote female characters that he could bleep to, and was attracted to a living woman who had many of those sexy (?) traits. The two of them together were toxically bonded with rituals of alcohol and argument.

  • @bernardhayes4459
    @bernardhayes4459 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ok Im hooked, now I need a full biography of him.

    • @texas1949
      @texas1949 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can’t remember the name of it for the life of me but a full length film starring Sam Shepard is excellent, imo.

  • @kevinrussell1144
    @kevinrussell1144 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks; I thoroughly enjoyed your documentary. As a huge fan who has read just about everything he produced, but without agreeing with him politically, I still consider him a great, although very flawed American patriot. But as a writer of detective fiction, he has no superior, and he was a true original who lived according to his code.

  • @emmitstewart1921
    @emmitstewart1921 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He could be regarded as the inventor of film noir. His Continental op, and Sam spade are the prototypes for the hard men in a merciless world that came to characterize the genre.

  • @MementoMorituri
    @MementoMorituri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Tragic yet somehow admirable and quietly heroic.

  • @1Tonari
    @1Tonari 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent, well done

  • @James_Bowie
    @James_Bowie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Very well made, thank you. So, can we expect one on the Master of the Mean Streets?

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You're welcome. Hmm, are you referring to Raymond Chandler by any chance?

  • @jabbermocky4520
    @jabbermocky4520 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Striking how he found his "Girl with the Silver Eyes" in Hellman, who very much lived up to the role. She was as narcissistic as any of his hardboiled anti-heroines. But he was harder. Sounds like a stand-off to the end between these 2 literary giants.

  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I bet the San Francisco of Dashiell Hammett was wonderous.

    • @veritas6335
      @veritas6335 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wondrous.

  • @I_am_a_cat_
    @I_am_a_cat_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why can't anyone pronounce Dashiell correctly??? They always ignore the i as if it's not even there... the i isn't silent...

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many many fine things in this. Inspiring.

  • @veritas6335
    @veritas6335 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hammett pronounced his first name Dash-eel, accent on the last syllable. Not Dashull. Lillian Hellman discussed his name and its pronunciation in an interview with Dick Cavett on his show one time.

  • @steveculbert4039
    @steveculbert4039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Actually, there is a large Jewish population in New Orleans.

  • @markbeames7852
    @markbeames7852 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that Straithairn narrating?

  • @votemonty1815
    @votemonty1815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Splendid Noir 🔎

  • @marysalerno467
    @marysalerno467 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I seem to have missed the part about Hammett and Hellman being active members of the Communist Party.

    • @bovnycccoperalover3579
      @bovnycccoperalover3579 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hellman was well known as a staunch Stalinist! However, her literary output will be what defines her.

  • @noneofurbusiness5223
    @noneofurbusiness5223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's bugging me: who's actor reading 📚 excerpts of novels?
    Straythairn? (Who was born in SF) Small world.

  • @markpage9886
    @markpage9886 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Read Red Harvest...you'll see what the fuss is about. He's the real deal.

    • @alidabaxter5849
      @alidabaxter5849 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please read The Glass Key and The Dain Curse

  • @sondreeriksen9146
    @sondreeriksen9146 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hammet is such an interesting figure in literary history, one I'm sure would never covet my ox.

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan2589 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is no "American male mystique".

  • @QPRTokyo
    @QPRTokyo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It is interesting how the original Maltese Falcon movie was less censored than the 1941 remake. We know why.😂

    • @yodservant
      @yodservant ปีที่แล้ว

      Could be pre code production?? The censorship started in earnest in 1934

  • @dianal.clausen8118
    @dianal.clausen8118 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never knew all that about Lilian Helman. Thanks

  • @kuba70834
    @kuba70834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Is it Kathleen Turner's voice?

    • @bluecollarlit
      @bluecollarlit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She DOES sound like Kathleen Turner!
      I think it's her...!
      Iconic in Body Heat.

    • @JamesBrown-ij1px
      @JamesBrown-ij1px 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It most certainly IS the incomparable Kathleen Turner!

    • @cindyhammond7320
      @cindyhammond7320 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @unowen-nh9ov
      @unowen-nh9ov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ironically, she also narrates a documentary about Myrna Loy (who portrayed Hammett's character Nora Charles onscreen for over a decade) & presented the actress her Kennedy Center Honors many years later.

  • @dr.barrycohn5461
    @dr.barrycohn5461 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maltese Falcon is an amazing movie. Love the word gunsil.

    • @johnwagner91
      @johnwagner91 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The word is gunsel.

  • @patriciafeehan7732
    @patriciafeehan7732 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His girlfriend was Lillian Hellman a great writer herself.

  • @j.taylor3670
    @j.taylor3670 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He's one of the best 20th century writers in my view and he left school at 13! He was pigeon holed but he was more than his image.

  • @JonathanBrown1
    @JonathanBrown1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who is the woman wearing the pearl necklace who comments in several places? She is brilliant.

  • @dierdresetser21
    @dierdresetser21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    well done

  • @jonathanmitchell9886
    @jonathanmitchell9886 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Raymond Chandler made some genuinely bizarre, crabby, and ultimately inarticulate criticisms of Hammett. It was a lousy way to thank the man to whom Chandler owed his career.

  • @jenniferbrown5688
    @jenniferbrown5688 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sounds like a wonderful writer unique and special.

  • @yodservant
    @yodservant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The narrator sounds a lot like Barbara Stanwyck...

    • @cindyhammond7320
      @cindyhammond7320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kathleen Turner

    • @snowysnowyriver
      @snowysnowyriver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I didn't know it as Kathleen Turner, I would have also thought it was Barbara Stanwyck.

  • @hegyesvivien3372
    @hegyesvivien3372 ปีที่แล้ว

    S.O.Swho was the actress in the scene when the men didn't know her name?

    • @Babinkley
      @Babinkley ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it is Maureen O'Sullivan, Mia Farrow's mother.

  • @orchidlilly7518
    @orchidlilly7518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank-you*

  • @nomadpi1
    @nomadpi1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been a voracious reader of all the detective story writers. I think he, like Hemingway, simply ran out of product. Alcohol was an excuse for both Hammett and Hemingway, and not a destroyer of their talent. Hellman had a style of her own and used it well. She produced writing for a living until she decided to quit. The interviewee who slammed Hellman isn't capable of astuteness, as she's protecting a bias of her own writing. In short, it's her opinion, nothing else. Hammett, like Hemingway, had his tome in the sun, and faded, as did all the writers who couldn't produce enough for Holly Wood's demands.

  • @MasterEth
    @MasterEth 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I didn’t know man carrying thing made documentaries

  • @swengeer
    @swengeer ปีที่แล้ว

    Diane Johnson looks and sounds like Meryl Streep

  • @AJkingwing
    @AJkingwing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was...low-key just watching a compilation of memes from Man Carrying Thing, I think I'm in the wrong place- 😭

  • @DrewSohl
    @DrewSohl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    An amazing man,unfortunate that he drank,and had t.b.I wish he wrote more,but it wasn't in him.A camp counselor read Maltese Falcon,to my cabin,and it was incredible. Thanks,Dashell.

    • @markpage9886
      @markpage9886 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of writers drank...it was almost a hazard of the career. It was crazy.

    • @kengruz669
      @kengruz669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a forward-thinking and erudite camp counselor. The world needs more of this thinking outside the box.

  • @thomasbell7033
    @thomasbell7033 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've read Hammett's and Chandler's (admittedly small) output so many times I could never count. The first novel mentioned, Red Harvest, is the single bloodiest novel in our language I'm pretty sure. And it's fine literature by just about any measure.

  • @MrSoulauctioneer
    @MrSoulauctioneer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    leaves his family to live with a mistress in NY state. Hammett is the first person Ive ever heard of that had TB that didn't move to the Southwest. Hellman must have been seriously self-centered or Hammett was a fool.

    • @sulevisydanmaa9981
      @sulevisydanmaa9981 ปีที่แล้ว

      @MrSoulauctioneer NEVUHHHH judge a ... hook by its ....What kinda deep soul u r sellin ? FREDDIE SCOTT on Shout ? Buy the Selvin mob bio on Bert Berns. Albert Wash on Eastbound ? O er

  • @mrsjupiter9310
    @mrsjupiter9310 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The things you don't know.....sad.

  • @michaelgalea5148
    @michaelgalea5148 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dashiell Hammit was the best mystery writer period end of story.

    • @sulevisydanmaa9981
      @sulevisydanmaa9981 ปีที่แล้ว

      @michaelgalea5148 ALL ranking is childish ! Dig up the Wenders work from 82. Wrote a long essay on it wayyybackkkk (dont like the bulldyke voice in this, like Mrs Amthor in the Dick Richards/Mitch flick in 75 ..).

  • @melissasnow416
    @melissasnow416 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was his wife by any chance ? a young war widow? I had heard that she was. Interesting that he continued to support her all his life.

  • @WilliamHampton-m7y
    @WilliamHampton-m7y ปีที่แล้ว

    Great documentary on Hammett.

  • @MB-vu3ow
    @MB-vu3ow ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kathleen Turner sounds like Patricia Neal.

  • @alexdavies7394
    @alexdavies7394 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dashiell Hammett's writing carries more along the lines of realism, compared with other authors of hardboiled detective fiction.

  • @jerrycruitt5375
    @jerrycruitt5375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is it ever possible to get through a book, article, or video without being dragged through the wailing semite scream of personal agony? Oh, I've got the Anglo/Celtic blues, and must halt the familiar scene.

    • @trickywoo5165
      @trickywoo5165 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oi vay! take it easy with the anti termitic remacks 😝 that was exactly what i was thinking but you worded it perfect

    • @benburndred2226
      @benburndred2226 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In need of more Austrian painter we are!

  • @robertg.arbuckle6838
    @robertg.arbuckle6838 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I read about 400 words a minute. The Falcon I ate in three hours. The reason Hammet sounds so good today is we talk like that now. Everyone started talking like that when they they saw it. For 90Years we have talked what he wrote. I saw the tiny apartment in Seattle's Chinatown where he wrote. It's quite a neighborhood! My father wanted to be him and my mother married him, my Dad. They even went to Mexico. I grew up with Beats in my house. Of course I'm weird as hell.

    • @marbleman52
      @marbleman52 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey, when you said "beats", were you referring to the time of the Beatniks; the Beat Generation of the 50's ? Yea man...I can dig it...be cool and hip...!! I was a bit too young for the Beat Generation ( born 1952 ), but as the Beatniks morphed into the Hippie Generation of the 60's, I experienced a little bit of it in the late 60's.

  • @Channelscruf
    @Channelscruf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    47:03 Evil Communists looking evil.

  • @uhlijohn
    @uhlijohn ปีที่แล้ว

    Lillian Hellman was the typical Jewish communist. She wrote a book back in the 1970s or early 1980s that I read entitled "Scoundrel Time" about the anti-communist politicians and media. Intellectual Marxists are ALL the same: totally blind to the evils of communism. They need only read famed Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch's memoir of the Stalinist era "Testimony" that had to be smuggled out of the USSR. In that book Shostakovitch castigates western "liberals" like George Bernard Shaw for lionizing Stalin as a "man of the people"! Their willingness to be duped by the Red Czar knew no bounds.

  • @beverlyledbetter4906
    @beverlyledbetter4906 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He was a very nice looking man. He looked aristocratic!🙄

  • @Fadem12forReal
    @Fadem12forReal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pretty cool

  • @bayareaartist999
    @bayareaartist999 ปีที่แล้ว

    Barbara Stanwyck no it's Kathleen Turner.

  • @barbaraanneneale3674
    @barbaraanneneale3674 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree very Well done. I always Preferred Raymond Chandler as a writer, But Hammett is undeniably great!

  • @ladym6738
    @ladym6738 ปีที่แล้ว

    Howard Duff - Sam Spade.

  • @michaelingleson1656
    @michaelingleson1656 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I knew I headbanging in my kid days I know it means a good start when I was at work. Think o don't have knowledge like that it not agai st the law to get on top someone when he z I could.

  • @gloworm6387
    @gloworm6387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sorry he spent even a little time as a Pinkerton thug, but, heck, we all have to start something somewhere.

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ain't that the truth

    • @unowen-nh9ov
      @unowen-nh9ov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pretty sure there were thugs on both sides of the law in those days or Hammett wouldn't have had anything to write about.

  • @pressureworks
    @pressureworks ปีที่แล้ว

    Did someone add the annoying music before uploading on yt ???

  • @stutzbearcat5624
    @stutzbearcat5624 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It took that guy 10 hours to read tge Maltese Falcon?? What is it, 180 pages? 😁

    • @benburndred2226
      @benburndred2226 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Least he wasn't lying

    • @stutzbearcat5624
      @stutzbearcat5624 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benburndred2226
      Right?
      Reading that comment now makes me seem like some, well, DICK!
      I'm reading this book right now and it's got so much information in it - it's taken me a month to get thru 150 pages!
      So yeah just ignore me everyone. 😁

  • @alexwilson888
    @alexwilson888 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Typical American! “Hammer may have written the original private detective” what! He was about 30 to 40 years too late

    • @HaywardSouth
      @HaywardSouth ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Typical Brit! Closer to 90 years when Poe invented the detective story genre.😂

  • @yodservant
    @yodservant ปีที่แล้ว

    Corruption was abundant.... nothing's changed

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle4863 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The movie comes no where close to the spirit of The Thin Man novel.

  • @minbannister3625
    @minbannister3625 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    McArthy was right.

  • @srothbardt
    @srothbardt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great writer. Try doing the type of writing he did . Good luck….. Hey, I’ll bet youze mugs don’t know who the thin man is.

    • @Babinkley
      @Babinkley ปีที่แล้ว

      William Powell

    • @joeofmacabre07
      @joeofmacabre07 ปีที่แล้ว

      The corpse or dead body in the book

  • @GlobalistGazette
    @GlobalistGazette ปีที่แล้ว

    Just loving the Jewish cult tropes in this. The talk of "True socialism" indeed.

    • @benburndred2226
      @benburndred2226 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Their not a monolith, oi vey!