Ben Hecht Movies

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

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

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their...

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

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles...

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the...

A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Season 1, Episode 21 of the The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's...

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

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...

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

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

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...

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

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...