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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an influential American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His...
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Viva Villa!
Viva Villa! is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The film was directed by Jack...
Initial release date:
- 1934
Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
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Bringing up Baby
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The movie tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a...
Initial release date:
- 1938
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Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
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His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur. The change in this version is that the role of Hildy...
Initial release date:
- 1940
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Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
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Red River
Red River is a 1948 Western film directed by Howard Hawks, giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive, between...
Initial release date:
- 1948
Runtime:
- 133 min (79.8 hs )
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Scarface
Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American gangster film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince...
Initial release date:
- 1932
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Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
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The Thing
The Thing from Another World (often referred to as The Thing before its 1982 remake), is a 1951 science fiction film that tells the story of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight a malevolent plant-based...
Initial release date:
- Apr 6, 1951
Runtime:
- 87 min (52 hs )
Sergeant York
Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year.
The movie was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem...
Initial release date:
- 1941
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Runtime:
- 134 min (80.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,400,000 (US$)
Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo is a 1959 Western film, directed by Howard Hawks. The script was written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on a short story by B.H. McCampbell.
It stars John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, with Angie Dickinson, Pedro...
Initial release date:
- 1959
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Runtime:
- 141 min (84.6 hs )
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Ball of Fire
Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge....
Initial release date:
- Dec 2, 1941
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Runtime:
- 111 min (66.6 hs )
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Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century is a 1934 American screwball comedy film set on the 20th Century Limited train. The film was directed by Howard Hawks, stars John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, and features Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns and Edgar Kennedy. Ben Hecht...
Initial release date:
- 1934
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Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, and...
Initial release date:
- 1953
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Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
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Come and Get It
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber.
The story focuses on ruthless Barney Glasgow ...
Initial release date:
- 1936
Runtime:
- 99 min (59 hs )
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The Dawn Patrol
The Dawn Patrol is a 1930 World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It was directed by Howard Hawks and won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders.
The story revolves around the pilots and crew of an...
Initial release date:
- 1930
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Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
El Dorado
El Dorado is a 1967 western movie starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, directed by Howard Hawks, and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown....
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 1966
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Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
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The Outlaw
The Outlaw is a 1943 American western film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell. The supporting cast includes Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, and Walter Huston. Hughes also produced the film, while Howard Hawks served as an uncredited...
Initial release date:
- Feb 5, 1943
Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead. The Big Sleep is a prime...
Initial release date:
- 1946
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Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
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Monkey Business
Monkey Business is a 1952 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Hugh Marlowe. To avoid confusion with the famous Marx Brothers movie of the same name, this film is...
Initial release date:
- 1952
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Only Angels Have Wings
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots, its atmosphere,...
Initial release date:
- 1939
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Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
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Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western movie starring John Wayne. The film was the last film directed by Howard Hawks, from a script by Leigh Brackett. The film was shot in Technicolor with a running time of 114 minutes. The musical score was composed by Jerry...
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 1970
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Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
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Hatari!
Hatari! is a 1962 American film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne. The title means "danger" in Swahili, which was mentioned in the film as well. Portraying a group of hunters, the film presents an interesting if antiquated portrait of...
Initial release date:
- 1962
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Runtime:
- 157 min (94.2 hs )
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To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not (1944) is a thriller romance war adventure film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that is nominally based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway.
The film is set in the...
Initial release date:
- 1944
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Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
The Prizefighter and the Lady
The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 black-and-white MGM crime romance comedy starring Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, and Walter Huston. It was the film debut for professional boxers Baer and Carnera. Carnera was the world...
Initial release date:
- Nov 10, 1933
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Man's Favorite Sport?
Man's Favorite Sport? is a 1964 comedy starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss. Released by Universal Pictures, the movie was directed and produced by Howard Hawks.
Hawks intended this movie to be a homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing...
Initial release date:
- 1964
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Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
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Land of the Pharaohs
Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 Cinemascope epic film made by the Continental Company, Ltd and presented by Warner Bros. It was directed and produced by Howard Hawks from a screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom, Harry Kurnitz and the novelist William...
Initial release date:
- 1955
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Runtime:
- 144 min (86.4 hs )
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Air Force
Air Force is a 1943 war film directed by Howard Hawks. It starred John Garfield, John Ridgely, Harry Carey, and Gig Young as crew members on a B-17 Flying Fortress named the Mary-Ann. An uncredited William Faulkner wrote the emotional deathbed scene...
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Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. This film was based upon the true account of the real Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse; the experience was told in...
Initial release date:
- Aug 19, 1949
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Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
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Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast (1935) is a period film directed by Howard Hawks. Shot in black-and-white and set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, the film combines elements of crime, Western, melodrama and adventure genres, features a wide range of actors,...
Initial release date:
- 1935
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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Tiger Shark
Tiger Shark is a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks. The movie was made the same year as Scarface, which is widely acknowledged to be the director's best film of the early sound era. The general storyline was repeated several times in subsequent...
Initial release date:
- Sep 22, 1932
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Runtime:
- 77 min (46 hs )
O. Henry's Full House
O. Henry's Full House (1952) is an anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five separate stories by O. Henry. The film was produced by André Hakim and directed by five separate directors from five separate screenplays. The music score...
Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
A Song Is Born
A Song Is Born (1948) is a Technicolor musical film remake, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, of 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper. It was directed by Howard Hawks from an original story by Billy Wilder, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and...
Initial release date:
- Oct 19, 1948
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Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
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Red Line 7000
Red Line 7000 is a 1965 American motion picture released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Howard Hawks, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars James Caan and Marianna Hill in a story about a young stock-car racer trying to establish...
Initial release date:
- 1965
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Today We Live
Today We Live is a 1933 film starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, and Franchot Tone. The film is based on Turnabout by William Faulkner. Faulkner also provided the dialogue for the film.
In World War I, England, drama, Diana Boyce...
Initial release date:
- Apr 14, 1933
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Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
The Criminal Code
The Criminal Code (released January 3, 1931) is a Hollywood crime film, directed by Howard Hawks, based on a play by Martin Flavin with cinematic adaptation by screenwriters Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr.
Shot in black-and-white, the picture...
Initial release date:
- Jan 3, 1931
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
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Ceiling Zero
Ceiling Zero is a 1936 adventure/drama film directed by Howard Hawks. It stars James Cagney as daredevil womanizing pilot "Dizzy" Davis and Pat O'Brien as Jake Lee, his war veteran buddy and the operations manager of an airline company. Based on a...
Initial release date:
- Jan 16, 1936
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
The Big Sky
The Big Sky is a 1952 Western film directed by Howard Hawks, based on the novel of the same name. The cast includes Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt, Dewey Martin and Elizabeth Threatt.
Though not considered amongst Hawks' major achievements by most...
Initial release date:
- 1952
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Runtime:
- 140 min (84 hs )
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Fig Leaves
Fig Leaves is a 1926 silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring George O'Brien. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.
Initial release date:
- 1926
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The Crowd Roars
The Crowd Roars is a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney and featuring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee, and Frank McHugh.
The driver in the film's auto racing sequences was Harry Hartz, a successful board...
Initial release date:
- 1932
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Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
A Girl in Every Port
A Girl in Every Port is a silent 1928 comedy film about two sailors. Renowned stripper Sally Rand played one of their many girlfriends.
It was remade as Goldie in 1931, with Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, and Jean Harlow.
Initial release date:
- Feb 26, 1928
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Runtime:
- 62 min (37 hs )
