Ben Hecht Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 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 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...

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

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...

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,...

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...

Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.

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

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow...

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

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...

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.