Hammett (1982)
Frederic Forrest: Hammett
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Quotes
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Hammett : I was sure I heard you retired.
Doc Fallon : I heard you stopped drinkin'.
Hammett : I guess we were both wrong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crystal Ling : He was good.
Hammett : He was the best - in his heyday.
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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.
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Hammett : [after pulling Ryan out of a pit underneath a steel grate] Geez, what happened?
Jimmy Ryan : The deal went a little sour.
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Hammett : [referring to Eli's very large revolver] Where'd you get the artillery, Eli? You should put wheels on it.
Eli the Taxi Driver : You need a little protection when you drive a hack in Frisco.
Kit Conger : [laughing uneasily] In San Francisco.
Eli the Taxi Driver : I hack here, lady; I call it Frisco.
