TV Guide: Ben Hecht

Video: Design for Living -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -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.

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

TCM — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -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.

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

TCM — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -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.

Video: Gaily, Gaily - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -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).

Video: His Girl Friday (Enhanced) - 1940

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -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

Video: His Girl Friday (Enhanced) - 1940

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Death Ride

Hulu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -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."