The first “Thin Man” film, released in 1934 and based on Hammett’s novel, was a smash hit and is today a key film in the American screwball comedy cycle. This script was eventually published by Mysterious Press in 2012 under the title RETURN OF THE THIN MAN. With a single holograph correction by Hammett, and letter of provenance from Hammett’s daughter Josephine Hammett Marshall regarding the discovery of the treatment in the family’s estate.Īn extremely scarce mimeographed script treatment by Dashiell Hammett for what became the first Thin Man sequel film, AFTER THE THIN MAN. Pages and wrapper very good+, bound with two gold brads. Light blue titled wrappers, with the white MGM studio label present, holograph pencil notation of Hammett’s name (secretarial), rubber-stamped COMPLETE, dated September 17, 1935, with a single credit for Hammett.

Vintage original film script, quarto, mimeograph. Hammett died in 1961, but the city has paid tribute to his time in San Francisco, from a Tenderloin walking tour of his haunts to an alleyway named in his honor between Bush and Pine streets.Dashiell Hammett (screenwriter, source) THIN MAN SEQUEL (Sep 17, 1935) Film script $27,500.00 He left the city altogether and moved to New York in 1930, where he wrote his other well-known work, “The Thin Man,” which became a successful film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Hammett wrote that story and several others after he had already left Leavenworth and moved to 891 Post Street.

He is played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 movie adaptation of “The Maltese Falcon,” which is often considered the first film noir. He worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in the Flood Building on Market Street near the cable car turnaround, which gave him inspiration for his most famous character, the hard-drinking PI Sam Spade. Hammett lived in San Francisco for most of the 1920s, and the majority of his “ground-breaking hard-boiled detective fiction” was written in the Tenderloin, according to the Tenderloin Museum. The Eddy building has 30 studios and five one-bedrooms, most of which were “ lightly renovated with new flooring, granite countertops and new paint upon turnover.” Hammett’s former home is in the smaller of the two buildings, with 23 studios that are “fully occupied” with “solid in-place rents,” according to the listing notes.

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett