Tag: Ben Hecht

The Front Page Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), I. A. L. Diamond (Screenplay)
Directed by:Billy Wilder
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071524

Plot:A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
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Spellbound Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay)
Directed by:Alfred Hitchcock
Year:1945
IMDb:tt0038109

Plot:When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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The Black Swan Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Seton I. Miller (Screenplay), Rafael Sabatini (Novel)
Directed by:Henry King
Year:1942
IMDb:tt0034522

Plot:When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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Nothing Sacred Script

Script by:James H. Street (Original Story), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Ring Lardner, Jr. (Writer), Budd Schulberg (Writer)
Directed by:William A. Wellman
Year:1937
IMDb:tt0029322

Plot:When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
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Tales of Manhattan Script

Script by:Henry Blankfort (Writer), Alan Campbell (Writer), Ladislas Fodor (Writer), László Görög (Writer), Ben Hecht (Writer), Samuel Hoffenstein (Writer), Ferenc Molnár (Writer), Donald Ogden Stewart (Writer), Lamar Trotti (Writer), László Vadnay (Writer)
Directed by:Julien Duvivier
Year:1942
IMDb:tt0035415

Plot: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 included in the original theatrical release.
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Journey Into Fear Script

Script by:Orson Welles (Screenplay), Joseph Cotten (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Eric Ambler (Novel), Richard Collins (Screenplay)
Directed by:Norman Foster
Year:1943
IMDb:tt0034922

Plot:An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
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Scarface (1932) Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Armitage Trail (Novel), John Lee Mahin (Dialogue), Seton I. Miller (Dialogue), W.R. Burnett (Dialogue)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1932
IMDb:tt0023427

Plot:A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Topaze Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Benn W. Levy (Adaptation), Marcel Pagnol (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Year:1933
IMDb:tt0024684

Plot: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 name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
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The Unholy Garden Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Dialogue), Charles MacArthur (Screenplay), Charles MacArthur (Dialogue), John Lee Mahin (Screenplay)
Directed by:George Fitzmaurice
Year:1931
IMDb:tt0022523

Plot: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 determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
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The Man with the Golden Arm Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Nelson Algren (Author), Walter Newman (Screenplay), Lewis Meltzer (Screenplay)
Directed by:Otto Preminger
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048347

Plot:A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
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