TV Guide: Online Video Guide Ben Hecht

Design for Living -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:56:16 -0500

Opening credits introducing Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Design For Living, 1933, in which Ben Hecht re-writes Noel Coward for Ernst Lubitsch.

Notorious (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:54:38 -0500

Opening credit sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, 1946, starring Cary Grand and Ingrid Bergman, photographed by Ted Tetzlaff from Ben Hecht's original screennplay.

It's a Wonderful World

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:06:13 -0500

If the idea of James Stewart masquerading as a gangly Boy Scout leader in oversized pants and Coke-bottle glasses makes you laugh, It???s a Wonderful World awaits! This wisecracking classic scripted by screwball master Ben Hecht (Twentieth Century, Nothing Sacred, His Girl Friday) stars Stewart and the marvelous Claudette Colbert in their only screen pairing. He???s a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She???s a dizzy poet he takes hostage???and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI???s penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that???s wacky, witty and completely wonderful.

It's a Wonderful World

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:06:13 -0500

Front Page, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Hildy Johnson!

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:50:47 -0500

Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou) is hunting Hildy in two remarkable shots from director Lewis Milestone in an early scene from The Front Page 1931, from the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Gaily, Gaily - (Original Trailer)

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:17:17 -0500

Beau Bridges plays a young man coming of age in corrupt 1910's Chicago in Gaily, Gaily (1969) based on a novel by Ben Hecht (The Front Page).

His Girl Friday (Enhanced) - 1940

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:51:09 -0500

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Milestone's 1931 movie is well respected (Billy Wilder's 1974 version isn't), but this is one case where the remake towers brilliantined head and blocked shoulders above the original. Howard Hawks had the inspired notion of making Hildy Johnson--the ace newsman whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--a she instead of a he. What's more, she's not only Walter's star reporter but also his ex-wife. When Hildy (Rosalind Russell) comes to tell Walter (Cary Grant) she's leaving the newspaper business, he bamboozles her into carrying out one last assignment--a death-row interview with a little nebbish (John Qualen) convicted of killing a policeman. It sounds like a snap, but before you can say screwball comedy, the press

His Girl Friday (Enhanced) - 1940

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:24:05 -0500

Starsky and Hutch: Death Ride

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:32:35 -0500

Season 1, Episode 4: Starsky and Hutch are pursued by killers who will stop at nothing to prevent the daughter of a crime czar and her es-corts from from surviving in "Death Ride."