Tag: Ben Hecht

The Black Swan Script

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Year:1942
Director:Henry King
Written by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Seton I. Miller (Screenplay), Rafael Sabatini (Novel)

Script Synopsis:When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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Spellbound Script

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Year:1945
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Ben Hecht (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
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The Front Page Script

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Year:1974
Director:Billy Wilder
Written by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), I. A. L. Diamond (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
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Switching Channels Script

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Year:1988
Director:Ted Kotcheff
Written by:Ben Hecht (Writer), Charles MacArthur (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Switching Channels Script Resources:

  • Switching Channels Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Switching Channels Script PDF - 2/2/87 1ST DFT at Script City ($)

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His Girl Friday

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Year:1940
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
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The Thing From Another World

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Year:1951
Director:Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby
Written by:Howard Hawks (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Scientists and U.S. Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
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  • The Thing From Another World ( tt0044121 ) at IMDb
  • The Thing From Another World ( 10785 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao

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Year:1964
Director:George Pal
Written by:Charles Beaumont (Screenplay), Charles G. Finney (Writer), Ben Hecht (Writer)

Script Synopsis:An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
7 Faces of Dr. Lao Script Resources:

  • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • 7 Faces of Dr. Lao Script PDF - 5/14/1963 at Script City ($)

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The Paradine Case

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Year:1947
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Robert Hichens (Novel), David O. Selznick (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Alma Reville (Screenplay), James Bridie (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to fall in love with her, she encourages him.
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Strangers on a Train

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Year:1951
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Patricia Highsmith (Novel), Raymond Chandler (Screenplay), Czenzi Ormonde (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Whitfield Cook (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder—a theory that he plans to implement.
Strangers on a Train Script Resources:

  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Strangers on a Train Script - 1950-10 Draft at IMSDb
  • Strangers on a Train Script - 10/18/50 final draft at The Daily Script
  • Strangers on a Train Script at Hitchcock Wiki
  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Strangers on a Train Script PDF - 12/16/50 REVISED FINAL at Script City ($)

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Rope

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Year:1948
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Written by:Arthur Laurents (Screenplay), Patrick Hamilton (Theatre Play), Hume Cronyn (Adaptation), Ben Hecht (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
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