Overview
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Cast
- Frederic Forrest as Hammett
- Peter Boyle as Jimmy Ryan
- Marilu Henner as Kit Conger / Sue Alabama
- Roy Kinnear as English Eddie Hagedorn
- Lydia Lei as Crystal Ling
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Eli the Taxi Driver
- David Patrick Kelly as The Punk
- R.G. Armstrong as Lt. O'Mara
- Richard Bradford as Detective Bradford
- Jack Nance as Gary Salt