Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Film-Noir • Country: USA • Language: English, Portuguese
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
John Ford
Writer
Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht
Cast
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine
Plot
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
Brian De Palma
Writer
Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Cast
Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
Plot
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, French
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Cast
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Plot
When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Samson Raphaelson, Miklós László, Ben Hecht
Cast
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Plot
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
George Stevens
Writer
Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Ben Hecht
Cast
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Plot
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Henry Hathaway
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Eleazar Lipsky
Cast
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Plot
A thief arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind after his wife dies under mysterious circumstances.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English, German
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Charles Bruce Millholland, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Cast
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Plot
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 failing career.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Ben Hecht, James Street, David O. Selznick
Cast
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
Plot
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, None
Director
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Writer
Charles Furthman, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Cast
George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Plot
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Film-Noir • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
Robert Montgomery
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Dorothy B. Hughes
Cast
Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix
Plot
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, Italian
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Ben Hecht, Andrew Solt, Guy Endore
Cast
Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer
Plot
A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Charles Vidor
Writer
Moss Hart, Myles Connolly, Ben Hecht
Cast
Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire
Plot
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tal...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Writer
Ben Hecht, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Cast
Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee
Plot
When a tycoon (Ernest Truex) is accused of murder, the private eye (James Stewart) tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess (Claudette Colbert) along the way.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery, Ben Hecht
Cast
Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy
Plot
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Film-Noir • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
John Paxton, John Wexley, Ben Hecht
Cast
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Plot
Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Howard Hawks
Writer
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Edward Chodorov
Cast
Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea
Plot
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Nunnally Johnson, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Ben Hecht
Cast
Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Plot
Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don't swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Henry Hathaway
Writer
Ben Hecht, Julian Zimet, James Edward Grant
Cast
John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
When circus proprietor Matt Masters decides to take his show on a European tour, it is beset by problems, while he searches for Lili, the mother of his adopted daughter, who disappeared years before.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English, Latin
Director
Charles Vidor, John Huston
Writer
Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Stallings
Cast
Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Western • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Writer
Ben Hecht, Edgecumb Pinchon, O.B. Stade
Cast
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo
Plot
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Musical • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Norman Taurog
Writer
Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson, Ben Hecht
Cast
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh
Plot
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
