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1. Rio Bravo (1959)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter BrennanSet in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John ... More
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2. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May RobsonKatharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and ... More
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3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy NoonanSecond-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is ... More
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4. Man's Favorite Sport? (1963)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene HoltRoger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss ... More
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5. His Girl Friday (1940)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe KarnsThe second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy ... More
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6. The Big Sleep (1946)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. BrownThe definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned ... More
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7. Red River (1948)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen GrayJohn Wayne -- showing off a darker side to his screen persona than we'd previously seen -- portrays Thomas Dunson, a frontiersman who, with his ... More
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8. Scarface (1932)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Boris KarloffCompleted in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but ... More
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9. Rio Lobo (1970)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher MitchumJohn Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate ... More
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10. Twentieth Century (1934)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Etienne GirardotFlamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) into leading lady ... More
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11. El Dorado (1967)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Michele Carey, Paul FixList of all editionsHaving struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The first of these rehashes ... More
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12. Hatari! (1962)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain, Red ButtonsList of all editionsHatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks effort. John Wayne stars as ... More
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13. Sergeant York (1941)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, Ward Bond, Margaret Wycherly, Stanley RidgesList of all editionsWhen World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three conditions: (1) That the film ... More
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14. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Randy Stuart, William NeffList of all editionsHoward Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri ... More
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15. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Carroll, Allyn JoslynList of all editionsVirtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ... More
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16. Monkey Business (1952)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh MarloweList of all editionsHoward Hawks hoped to capture the screwball comic fervor of his 1938 film Bringing Up Baby with his 1952 comedy Monkey Business. As in the earlier ... More
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17. Ball of Fire (1941)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, Henry TraversList of all editionsBall of Fire is a delightful retelling (by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett) of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" legend -- though strictly for ... More
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18. Today We Live (1933)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns, Louise Closser HaleList of all editionsA love triangle forms the basis of this drama set during WWI. The screenplay was written by the story's original author William Faulkner. It centers ... More
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19. To Have and Have Not (1944)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Dan Seymour, Hoagy CarmichaelList of all editionsHumphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a ... More
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20. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, James Robertson JusticeList of all editions"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue exchanges in the William ... More
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21. Air Force (1943)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles DrakeList of all editionsOn December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio ... More
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22. A Song Is Born (1948)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve CochranList of all editionsA Song is Born is a musical remake of the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire, with the same producer (Sam Goldwyn) and director (Howard Hawks) at the helm. It ... More
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23. The Crowd Roars (1932)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy KibbeeList of all editionsHoward Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his younger brother Eddie (Eric ... More
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24. The Big Sky (1952)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Hank WordenList of all editionsThe Big Sky is based on a popular novel by A.B. Guthrie. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first ... More
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25. Tiger Shark (1932)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Vince BarnettList of all editionsIt is difficult to determine who is the more ferocious character in this film: The real shark seen in the underwater sequences, or star Edward G. ... More







