This adaptation of Ben Hecht's novel is a satire that unfolds as a mystery story. A Hollywood studio is producing another...
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Book Author
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1988
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The 1920s-era play The Front Page was about a Chicago reporter who wants to retire and get married but is tricked by his...
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Play Author
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1988
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Play Author
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1974
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Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this...
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Book Author
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1969
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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Screenwriter
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1967
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Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
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1964
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Screenwriter
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1958
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This off-beat western is a freely-adapted remake of the violent film noir Kiss of Death. The story centers on a naive thief,...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1958
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This legendarily campy sci-fi epic (shot in color and CinemaScope, and rather lavish for a sci-fi film of this period)...
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Short Story Author
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1958
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1956
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The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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This very expensive Italian-made adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. The story...
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1954
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1954
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At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1952
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Play Author
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1950
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Screenwriter
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1950
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, per the...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Screenwriter
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1947
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Writer/director Ben Hecht brings "art" to the artless environs of Republic Pictures in the one-of-a-kind melodrama Spectre of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1946
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Screenwriter
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1946
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As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances,...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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1940
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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Play Author, Short Story Author
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1939
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Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion...
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Play Author
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1939
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It's "Never the Twain Shall Meet" time again in the MGM romantic melodrama Lady of the Tropics. The lady in question is...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1939
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A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1936
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Hecht and MacArthur's Once in a Blue Moon was an unsuccessful attempt to fashion a film vehicle for legendary Broadway...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1936
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A descendant of the notorious Borgias begins to believe that he has inherited their murderous tendencies in this thriller....
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Book Author
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1935
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It is said that former gagman Clyde Bruckman spent most of his directing days sitting in his canvas chair quietly nursing a...
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Play Author
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1935
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This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1935
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1934
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Play Author
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1934
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Written by the prolific Ben Hecht, Upper World is a clash-of-class melodrama set in New York City. Railroad tycoon Alexander...
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Short Story Author
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1934
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Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains, incensed that his mistress...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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1931
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Play Author
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1931
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Jimmy Durante made his movie debut in Roadhouse Nights, a strange amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama. In truth,...
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Short Story Author
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1930
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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Short Story Author
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1929
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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