Ben Hecht Movies

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

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben,...

A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed off one by one by someone who calls himself...

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend,...

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...

Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates....

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

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

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...

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...

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