Hecht-Hill-Lancaster was a production company formed by the actor

Burt Lancaster Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor. Initially known for playing tough characters with tender hearts, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year caree ...

in association with his agent,

Harold Hecht Harold Adolphe Hecht (June 1, 1907 – May 26, 1985) was an American film producer, dance director and talent agent. He was also, though less noted for, a literary agent, a theatrical producer, a theatre director and a Broadway actor. He was ...

, and James Hill. In 1948 Lancaster and Hecht formed Norma Productions (named after his wife), which later became Hecht-Lancaster. Hill joined in the mid-1950s. The company produced some of the most notable American films of the 1950s. In 1956 they renewed their deal with

United Artists United Artists (UA) is an American film production and film distribution, distribution company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In its original operating period, it was founded in February 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford an ...

. In late 1957 they announced they would make ten films worth $14 million in 1958."Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Planning Record Year: Group Will Produce $14,000,000 Worth of Motion Pictures in 1958". Los Angeles ''Times'', December 16, 1957. p. B9.

Filmography

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ''Kiss the Blood Off My Hands'' is a 1948 American noir- thriller film directed by Norman Foster. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gerald Butler, it stars Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, and Robert Newton. The film face ...

'' (1948), N *'' The Flame and the Arrow'' (1950), N *''

Ten Tall Men ''Ten Tall Men'' is a 1951 American adventure film starring Burt Lancaster about the French Foreign Legion during the Rif War in Morocco. Though co-written and directed by Willis Goldbeck, Goldbeck walked off the film due to disputes with Lancas ...

'' (1951), N *''

The Crimson Pirate ''The Crimson Pirate'' is a 1952 Technicolor comedy-adventure film from Warner Bros. produced by Norman Deming and Harold Hecht, directed by Robert Siodmak, and starring Burt Lancaster, who also co-produced with Deming and Hecht. Co-starring in ...

'' (1952), HL *''

Apache The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwestern United States, Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan ho ...

'' (1954), HL *'' Vera Cruz'' (1954), HL *'' Marty'' (1955), HL *''

The Kentuckian ''The Kentuckian'' may refer to: * ''The Kentuckian'' (1955 film), a 1955 Technicolor and CinemaScope adventure film * ''The Kentuckian'' (painting), 1954 painting by Thomas Hart Benton based on the film * ''The Kentuckian'' (1908 film), a short ...

'' (1955), HL *''

Trapeze A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes, metal straps, or chains, from a ceiling support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or ...

'' (1956), HHL *''

The Bachelor Party The Bachelor Party is a 1957 drama film directed by Delbert Mann, adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from his 1953 teleplay. Plot Charlie Samson is a hard-working married bookkeeper in Manhattan, struggling to advance himself by attending night scho ...

'' (1957), HHL *''

Sweet Smell of Success ''Sweet Smell of Success'' is a 1957 American film noir Satire (film and television), satirical drama (film and television), drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, ...

'' (1957), HHL *''

Run Silent, Run Deep ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' is a novel by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach Jr. published in 1955 by Henry Holt and Company, Henry Holt & Co. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of ...

'' (1958), HHL *'' Cry Tough'' (1958), C *''

Separate Tables ''Separate Tables'' is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, titled ''Table by the Window'', focuses on the ...

'' (1958), HHL *''

Take a Giant Step ''Take a Giant Step'' is a 1959 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Philip Leacock. The plot concerns a black teenager living in a predominantly white environment and having trouble coping as he reaches an age at which the realities of ...

'' (1959), HHL *''

The Rabbit Trap ''The Rabbit Trap'' is a 1959 American drama film directed by Philip Leacock based on a 1955 ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' teleplay by JP Miller.Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' is an Australian play written by Ray Lawler and first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne on 28 November 1955. The play is considered to be the most significant in Australian theatre history, and a " ...

'' (1959), HHL *'' The Devil's Disciple'' (1959), HHL *'' The Unforgiven'' (1960), HHL *''

The Young Savages ''The Young Savages'' is a 1961 American crime drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usual ...

'' (1961) *'' Birdman of Alcatraz'' (1962), N Key
HL = Hecht-Lancaster
HHL = Hecht-Hill-Lancaster
N = Norma Productions
C = Canon Productions

Unmade films

*''Bandoola'' *''Colonel Redl'' *''First Love'' *''The Dreamers'' *''Tall Dark Man'' *''The Hitchhiker'' *''The Catbird Seat'' *''Tell It on the Drums'' *''The Rock Cried Out'' *''Kimberley'' *''Blaze of the Sun''

References

Film production companies of the United States Norma Productions {{US-film-company-stub