Ben Hecht — Playwright (18)
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Circus World (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Circus World
director: Henry Hathaway actor: John Wayne / Claudia Cardinale …
other title: Il circo e la sua grande avventura / Held der Arena …
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
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Kiss of Death (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kiss of Death
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Victor Mature / Brian Donlevy …
other title: Il bacio della morte / Dødskysset …
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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Whirlpool (1950) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Whirlpool
director: Otto Preminger actor: Gene Tierney / José Ferrer …
other title: Il segreto di una donna / Le Mystérieux Docteur Korvo …
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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Nothing Sacred (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nothing Sacred
director: William A. Wellman actor: Carole Lombard / Fredric March …
other title: Nulla sul serio / Nada é Sagrado …
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
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Lydia (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lydia
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Merle Oberon / Edna May Oliver …
other title: Ein Frauenherz vergißt nie
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
director: 埃德加·塞尔温 actor: 罗伯特·杨 / 海伦·海丝 …
other title: 战地情天 / Il fallo di Madelon Claudet …
French country girl Madelon falls for artist Larry, who leaves her after she becomes pregant. She finds help from jewel thief Carlo, but he commits sucide when the police try to arrest him. Madelon is arrested and receives a ten year term in prison for assisting him in his profession. To support her son, who does not know she's in person, she becomes a street walker, allowing him to attend medical school.
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Wuthering Heights (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
Wuthering Heights
director: William Wyler actor: Merle Oberon / Laurence Olivier …
other title: La voce nella tempesta / Stormfulde Højder …
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
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Comrade X (1940) [Movie] TMDB
Comrade X
director: King Vidor actor: Clark Gable / Hedy Lamarr …
other title: Corrispondente X / Camarade X …
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Lady of the Tropics (1939) [Movie] TMDB
Lady of the Tropics
director: Jack Conway actor: Robert Taylor / Hedy Lamarr …
other title: La signora dei tropici / Lady in den Tropen …
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Angel Face (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Angel Face
director: Otto Preminger actor: Robert Mitchum / Jean Simmons …
other title: Seduzione mortale / Blindt begær …
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Monkey Business (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Monkey Business
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Il magnifico scherzo / Liebling, ich werde jünger …
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. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Ride the Pink Horse (1947) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Ride the Pink Horse
director: Robert Montgomery actor: Robert Montgomery / Wanda Hendrix …
other title: Fiesta e sangue / Reite auf dem rosa Pferd …
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
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Scarface (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Scarface
director: Howard Hawks actor: Paul Muni / Ann Dvorak …
other title: Scarface - Lo sfregiato / Scarface, A Vergonha de Uma Nação …
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.
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Notorious (1946) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Notorious
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Cary Grant / Ingrid Bergman …
other title: Notorious - L'amante perduta / Berygtet …
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. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Lifeboat (1944) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Lifeboat
director: 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 actor: 塔卢拉赫·班克黑德 / 威廉·本迪克斯 …
other title: Prigionieri dell'oceano / Redningsbåden …
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.
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Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
Spellbound
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Gregory Peck …
other title: Io ti salverò / Troldbunden …
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.