Screenwriting From Iowa

“Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding.” Sydney Greenstreets’s character in The Maltese Falcon Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett  “Hammett  made the detective story fun to write, not an exhausting concatenation of insignificant clues.” Raymond Chandler Just as Raymond Chandler influenced other writers, other writers influenced him.  And one of those writers was Dashiell Hammett [...]

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