List of the best Ben Hecht movies: Crime Without Passion(1934), Angels Over Broadway(1940), The Scoundrel(1935), Specter of the Rose(1946) ... ...
Crime, Drama
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Charles MacArthur Margo Helen Whitney Bourne Stanley Ridges Leslie Adams
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Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
Comedy
USA
1940
80 Minutes
Director
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Rita Hayworth Thomas Mitchell John Qualen George Watts Ralph Theodore Constance Worth Harry Antrim
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
78 Minutes
Director
Noel Coward Charles MacArthur Julie Haydon Hope Williams Stanley Ridges Martha Sleeper Ernest Cossart Alexander Woollcott Everley Gregg Rosita Moreno
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 month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Drama
USA
1946
90 Minutes
Director
Judith Anderson Ivan Kirov Viola Essen Charles "Red" Marshall
Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »