Ben Hecht Movies

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

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,...

Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.

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

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

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

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...

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

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,...

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...

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

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.

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

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...

China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with...

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...

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

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