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Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill (/ˈhæmɪl/; June 24, 1935 – August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and The New York Daily News. Hamill, along with fellow columnist Jimmy Breslin, were considered New York City's two best known New York City street columnists of their time.

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Movies Made By Pete Hamill (14)

The Yellow Handkerchief (2011)

Set in Hokkaido, revolving around an ex-convict named Shima Yusaku (Abe) who has just been released from prison. Along with two young strangers that he meets, he sets out on a journey back to where his wife is, uncertain of what awaits him. Horikita Maki ( ...

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The Yellow Handkerchief (2009)

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness. ...

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Snow in August (2001)

When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help. ...

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Split Images (1992)

A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her. ...

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The Neon Empire (1989)

New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling. ...

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Laguna Heat (1987)

Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders. ...

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Liberty (1986)

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation. ...

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The Gift (1979)

A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn. ...

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Flesh & Blood (1979)

A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother. ...

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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home. ...

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French Connection II (1975)

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York. ...

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Badge 373 (1973)

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan ...

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Nightside (1973)

The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and on the prowl. In the pilot episode, Carmine manages to rescue Smitty's night club from being demolition a ...

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Doc (1971)

Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has ...

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Movies Starring Pete Hamill (11)

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill's courageous writing to life, celebrating the acclaimed journalists and the city they loved. ...

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If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent (2013)

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers. ...

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Home (2006)

Young Irish immigrant, Alan Cooke contemplates the great metropolis New York City, and the very meaning of home itself. A vivid moving and poetic portrayal of life in contemporary New York featuring a host of celebrities, native New Yorkers and immigrants ...

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Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (2005)

The Museum of the City of New York's award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival phot ...

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Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)

A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion. ...

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The Insider (1999)

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. ...

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One Fine Day (1996)

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to schoo ...

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King of New York (1990)

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood. ...

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Exposed (1983)

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are uncle ...

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From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)

Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face ...

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Badge 373 (1973)

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan ...

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