Ben Hecht Movies

Newspaper comedy based loosely on the 1928 stage-play and its subsequent film adaptations.

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

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

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

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy...

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...

The police use a gangster's son to get to him.

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...

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

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...

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...

Earl Williams is due to be hanged tomorrow, and he's innocent. When Earl escapes from his cell, journalist Hildy Johnson seems likely to land the...

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

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...

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his...

Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever...

A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Studio One, Season 2, Episode 34

John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter...

Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.