Ben Hecht Movies

An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that...

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain.

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her...

A group of Russian nobles fleeing the Bolshevik revolution meet up with a traveling circus. To escape their pursuers, they disguise themselves as...

Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary...

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the...

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and...

Earl Williams is set to hang tomorrow. When he escapes from his cell, reporter Hildy Johnson finds him, and thus seems likely to land the scoop of...

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate,...