Ben Hecht Movies

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,...

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...

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...

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

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

Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain...

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever...

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...

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,...