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Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films.
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09 December 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.
17 April 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.
08 February 1930
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him.
19 May 1939
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
25 March 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.
01 February 1948
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
12 April 1949
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
21 August 1946
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy.
06 October 1954
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
07 April 1939
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights.
29 March 1934
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years.
22 April 1937
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
09 April 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.
02 March 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.
21 April 1995
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened.
18 January 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.
12 October 1949
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
14 March 1926
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team.
01 November 1974
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
12 January 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.
08 November 1945
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr.
27 June 1935
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
24 February 1939
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
19 May 1939
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed.
16 August 1940
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war.
06 December 1962
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
04 December 1942
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.
25 April 1946
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
05 March 1988
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
03 September 1952
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler.
28 April 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.
05 April 1951
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
26 November 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 tenement neighborhood.
26 December 1955
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up.
07 November 1960
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle.
31 December 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.
14 December 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.
28 January 1944
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
17 March 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 he as become stricken and is dying.
17 December 1957
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
26 January 1939
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din.
07 July 1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
30 May 1956
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
13 January 1950
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter.
31 March 1956
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
21 December 1955
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
27 August 1947
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
21 February 1962
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam.
10 September 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.
02 April 1953
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria.
11 May 1934
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
03 August 1950
A Catholic priest finds himself investigating the murder of his colleague.
23 November 1945
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
17 November 1934
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A.
04 August 1954
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground.
06 October 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 determined to get it.
11 November 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 tonight.
