Películas dramáticas de Ben Hecht
Películas de Ben Hecht filtradas por género
🎭 Original Film Writer
5.7
1986
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent ...
🎭 Writer
6.8
1983
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Ton ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.3
1964
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother. ...
🎭 Writer
6.6
1962
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the norm ...
🎭 Screenplay
6
1957
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit. ...
👔 Writer
6.3
1956
Mike Ribble es uno de los pocos trapecistas que ha conseguido hacer el triple salto mortal. Sin embargo, tras sufrir un accidente con el trapecio, se vio obligado a trabajar como tramoyista en el ...
🎭 Novel
6.9
1956
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York. ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.9
1956
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York. ...
🎭 Writer
6
1953
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.1
1953
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne. ...
🎭 Director
6.3
1952
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 agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old bo ...
🎭 Writer
6.3
1952
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 agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old bo ...
🎭 Producer
6.3
1952
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 agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old bo ...
🎭 Narrator (segment "Woman of Sin") (voice)
6.3
1952
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 agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old bo ...
🎭 Writer
6.7
1951
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost. ...
🎭 Writer
0
1950
Based on the short story by Ben Hecht. ...
🎭 Director
6
1950
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to liv ...
🎭 Writer
6.1
1950
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues. ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.2
1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop. ...
🎭 Author
0
1950
A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Studio One, Season 2, Episode 34 ...
🎭 Writer
10
1950
A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the hospital with the idea of telling the world that ...
🎭 Writer
0
1950
A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the hospital with the idea of telling the world that ...
🎭 Theatre Play
6
1950
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David ...
👔 Screenplay
6.4
1950
Ann Sutton, una cleptómana casada con un conocido psiquiatra, es sorprendida por el malvado David Korvo, que la hipnotiza y trata de convertirla en coartada para un crimen. (FILMAFFINITY) ...
🎭 Writer
5.5
1949
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 rekindles a long-standing feud between their resp ...
🎭 Writer
7.3
1949
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. ...
🎭 Additional Writing
6.3
1949
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 American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a p ...
🎭 Writer
6.4
1949
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America. ...
🎭 Writer
6
1949
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 the writer is only nine years old. ...
🎭 Director
10
1949
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 the writer is only nine years old. ...
🎭 Director
0
1949
A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Season 1, Episode 21 of the The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre ...
👔 Writer
7.2
1948
Un pintor arruinado y abatido por haber perdido la inspiración conoce, un frío día de invierno, a una chiquilla en Central Park vestida de un modo anticuado. A partir de ese momento se suceden ...
🎭 Writer
5.9
1948
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist. ...
🎭 Writer
0
1948
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 scoop of the century - but all he wants is to lea ...
🎭 Writer
0
1948
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 scoop of the century - but all he wants is to lea ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.2
1948
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this ...
👔 Additional Writing
7.9
1948
A casa de dos estudiantes van llegando los invitados a una especie de fiesta de fin de curso. El invitado que más temen es su tutor y profesor, un astuto criminólogo que sostiene que el crimen ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.2
1947
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster. ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.1
1947
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge. ...
🎭 Writer
8
1946
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. ...
👔 Writer
7.7
1946
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el padre de Alicia Huberman, un espía nazi, es condenado por traición contra los Estados Unidos. Después del juicio, Alicia da una fiesta en la que ...
🎭 Producer
4.8
1946
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. ...
🎭 Director
4.8
1946
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. ...
🎭 Story
6.8
1946
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. ...
👔 Additional Writing
7.5
1946
Johnny Farrell, un aventurero que vive de hacer trampas en el juego, recala en Buenos Aires. Allí le saca de un apuro un hombre llamado Ballin Mundson, propietario de un lujoso casino. El recié ...
🎭 Writer
6.4
1945
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 his career - only he's desperate to leave town t ...
👔 Writer
7.4
1944
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ocho supervivientes de un barco que ha sido torpedeado comparten un bote salvavidas. También recogerán a un nazi que está a punto de ahogarse, lo que provoca ...
🎭 Producer
5.4
1942
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beauti ...
🎭 Screenplay
5.4
1942
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beauti ...
🎭 Writer
6.5
1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not include ...
🎭 Man in Night Court (uncredited)
5.9
1940
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for o ...
🎭 Director
5.9
1940
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for o ...
🎭 Producer
5.9
1940
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for o ...
🎭 Writer
5.9
1940
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for o ...
🎭 Writer
5.9
1940
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 in the slums. ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.4
1940
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle ...
🎭 Theatre Play
7.4
1940
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle ...
🎭 Additional Writing
8.1
1940
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. ...
🎭 Writer
5.9
1939
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.5
1939
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happiness. ...
🎭 Writer
7.5
1939
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, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidew ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.2
1939
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two ...
🎭 Additional Writing
7.2
1939
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. ...
🎭 Story
6.8
1939
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press. ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.8
1939
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press. ...
🎭 Writer
6.1
1938
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old te ...
🎭 Additional Writing
6.7
1937
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pr ...
🎭 Writer
6.9
1937
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, ...
🎭 Writer
5.9
1937
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project. ...
🎭 Writer
7.2
1937
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, an ...
🎭 Director
8
1936
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate. ...
🎭 Writer
8
1936
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate. ...
🎭 Producer
8
1936
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate. ...
🎭 Writer
6.4
1935
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 gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls ...
🎭 Writer
7.5
1935
A group of Russian nobles fleeing the Bolshevik revolution meet up with a traveling circus. To escape their pursuers, they disguise themselves as members fo the circus troupe. ...
🎭 Producer
5.9
1934
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 with Carmen, she is so distraught that she become ...
🎭 Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
5.9
1934
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 with Carmen, she is so distraught that she become ...
🎭 Screenplay
5.9
1934
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 with Carmen, she is so distraught that she become ...
🎭 Director
5.9
1934
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 with Carmen, she is so distraught that she become ...
🎭 Story
5.9
1934
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 with Carmen, she is so distraught that she become ...
🎭 Writer
7.5
1934
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 suit his purposes, but this time it is he who e ...
🎭 Story
6.1
1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire. ...
👔 Writer
6.7
1934
Una mujer alegre y desenvuelta se casa con un rígido lord inglés, viéndose luego envuelta en un escándalo con otro hombre. ...
🎭 Additional Writing
6.9
1934
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy. ...
🎭 Screenplay
5.4
1933
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 different choices twenty years earlier. ...
👔 Screenplay
6
1933
Un honesto e ingenuo maestro recibe una lección sobre cómo funciona el mundo fuera del aula, cuando un rico barón y su amante usan al maestro y su sobresaliente reputación para comercializar ...
🎭 Director
9
1932
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted. ...
👔 Writer
6.4
1932
Ray Smith es una joven extrovertida y liberal que rechaza continuamente el matrimonio. Sin embargo, cuando conoce al apuesto Walter se enamora al instante de él a pesar de que está comprometido ...
🎭 Screenplay
7.4
1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...
🎭 Producer
9
1932
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned. ...
🎭 Writer
6
1931
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school. ...
🎭 Writer
4.8
1931
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 criminals staying at the hotel who are determine ...
🎭 Dialogue
6.8
1931
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 criminals staying at the hotel who are determine ...
🎭 Screenplay
6.8
1931
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 criminals staying at the hotel who are determine ...
🎭 Writer
9
1931
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 pillar of the community. ...
🎭 Writer
6.5
1931
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds t ...
🎭 Original Story
10
1930
A princess in the old Austro-Hungarian empire rejects her arranged marriage and falls, instead, for a dashing cavalry captain. ...
🎭 Story
9
1930
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 (or herself) The Green Ghost. The survivors gath ...
🎭 Story
6
1930
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 brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood. ...
🎭 Original Film Writer
8.2
1930
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his ad ...
🎭 Story
5.7
1929
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad. ...
🎭 Story
7
1928
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 Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set o ...
🎭 Story
7
1927
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. ...
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