This movie is a tribute to Dashiell Hammet who was the first U.S. author who " got out the novel of investigation far from away the familial saloons" before Chandler. He was an agent of the Pinkerton Agency, then, bored by this work, he wrote a lot of novels of investigation. Wim Wenders offers a tribute to his memory as beautiful the Hammet's novels were. He was alcoholic for it was necessary to drinck and write like, after him, the gentlemen Chandler. More over Hammet was brave during the Mac Carty times. He refused to invoque the fifth amendement: then he was a prisoner during one year.The film is showing to us the way of the Hammet's heroes used to live and die in San Francisco in order to defend the poor people of this town. The French Author in poetry, Aragon, introduce D. Hammet in Europe in 1936.
Review of Hammett
