Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter and novelist. He won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for four others.
Biography[]
Indiana Jones met Ben Hecht in 1920 in Chicago after the murder of Indy's boss, Jim Colosimo. Hecht was a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and a rival journalist to Indy's friend, freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune, Ernest Hemingway. Unable to get a lead through Indy, Hecht covered the story of Colosimo's murder from the police headquarters, learning that Dion O'Banion and "Hymie" Weiss had related alibis. After Hemingway, Jones, and Eliot Ness solved the case and Chief John J. Garrity destroyed the evidence, Hecht decided to give up reporting and become a fiction writer, a playwright, so that the good guys could win.
Behind the scenes[]
Mark Kiely played Ben Hecht in the "Chicago, May 1920" section of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues, later released as Mystery of the Blues, chapter 20 in The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones.
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues" → Mystery of the Blues
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Chicago, May 1920"
Sources[]
Chapter 20: Mystery of the Blues on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Media Kit
- Ben Hecht - Shakespeare of Hollywood (Non-fiction source)
