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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist
February 28, 1893 (April 18, 1964)
U.S. 1987. Comedy by Ted Kotcheff with Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve. A brilliant journalist does a last report on a death row inmate before leaving the television station run by her ex-husband.
Runtime: 105 min.

I Hate Actors

V.O.: Je hais les acteurs
Fr. 1986. Police comedy by Gérard Krawczyk with Jean Poiret, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim. In Hollywood in 1942, several murders occur during the shooting of a film.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1974. Mores comedy by Billy Wilder with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Austin Pendleton. A journalist hides an escaped death row inmate to ensure exclusivity of his statements.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1969. Comedy by Norman Jewison with Beau Bridges, Brian Keith, Melina Mercouri. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the tribulations of an apprentice journalist in Chicago.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1958. Western by Gordon Douglas with Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels. After serving time in prison for theft, a rancher is pursued by a sinister and disturbing cellmate.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1957. War drama by Charles Vidor with Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica. An American enlisted as an ambulance driver in the Italian army falls in love with a nurse.
Runtime: 142 min.

Ulysses

V.O.: Ulisse
It. 1954. Adventures by Mario Camerini with Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn. Ulysses, king of Ithaca, has various adventures while trying to return home after the Trojan War.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1952. Fantasy comedy by Howard Hawks with Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe. A scientist and his wife have curious reactions after having absorbed an elixir of youth.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1952. Comedy by Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht with Edward G. Robinson, Marsha Hunt, Dan O'Herliby. A large film company buys the script of an unknown author in order to make a spectacular film.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1950. Crime drama by Otto Preminger with Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill. A gangster's son, turned police officer, accidentally kills the witness to a murder.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1949. Crime drama by Otto Preminger with Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte. A kleptomaniac falls into the grip of an unscrupulous hypnotist.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1946. Psychological drama by Ben Hecht with Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen. A young ballerina marries an unstable dancer who threatens to kill her.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1942. War drama by Henry Hathaway with Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Victor McLaglen. An American filmmaker becomes involved in an espionage plot in China.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1938. Sentimental drama by William Wyler with Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1937. Fantasy comedy by William A. Wellman with Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1934. Adventures by Jack Conway with Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carillo.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1934. Crime drama by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur with Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne.
Runtime: 70 min.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1932. Crime drama by Howard Hawks with Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft.
Runtime: 93 min.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1927. Crime drama by Josef Von Sternberg with George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook.
Runtime: 80 min.

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