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Howard Hawks - what members say
review by Zamy from LONDON
28 September 2004
review by McClennan from St Helens
Give me Marlowe over Bond any day! 22 August 2005
review by McClennan from St Helens
Excellent western and I'm not a John Wayne fan 2 June 2005
Howard Hawks - filmography
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Rio Lobo - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Howard Hawks's final film once again teams him with John Wayne, with a script by Leigh Brackett (who also wrote his EL DORADO and RIO BRAVO). The time is just after the end of the Civil War. Wayne is Union Colonel Cord McNally, who is teamed with two Confederate soldiers he captured during the war ..read more »
 
70%
from 36 members
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Rio Lobo
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Christopher Mitchum, John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill
Director: Howard Hawks
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John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre ..read more »
67%
from 1,060 member
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El Dorado
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Having 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 was El Dorado, with Rio Bravo star John Wayne back for more. Wayne plays a gunfighter who rides into El Dorado to link up with his old pal, sheriff ..read more »
71%
from 1,733 member
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Man's Favourite Sport
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is a super salesman of sporting goods who sells fishing equipment but knows nothing about the sport. Roger's boss Cadwalader (John McGiver) gets an idea from publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) to enter him in a fishing contest, and the inept angler has a ..read more »
64%
from 205 members
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Hatari!
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Gerard Blain, Michele Girardon, John Wayne
Director: Howard Hawks
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John Wayne stars as Sean Mercer, a tough trapper who travels the world to capture animals and sell them to zoos. As he and his ragtag crew roam the plains of Africa searching for giraffes and zebras, they encounter Anna Maria "Dallas" D'Allesandro (Elsa Martinelli), a beautiful photographer who ..read more »
64%
from 527 members
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Rio Bravo - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
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No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
75%
from 366 members
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Rio Bravo
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Set 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 Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that ..read more »
71%
from 3,592 members
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Rio Bravo - HD
(1959)
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
75%
from 50 members
Not currently released
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Land of the Pharaohs
(1955)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Epic film about an Egyptian pharaoh and the construction of his pyramid over a span of 30 years. However, the pharaoh's sexy, conniving wife has plans of her own - namely stealing her husband's wealth and power.
55%
from 22 members
Currently unavailable
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The Big Sky
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Steve Geray
Director: Howard Hawks
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Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have ..read more »
72%
from 49 members
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Monkey Business
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers
Director: Howard Hawks
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Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers star in this classic - comedy about a alchemist who discovers the secret of eternal youth. For years, Dr. Barnaby Fulton (Grant) has been working on a youth-restoring serum with little success - until the day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and ..read more »
63%
from 1,176 member
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I Was A Male War Bride
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall
Director: Howard Hawks
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Howard Hawks directed this classic farce about how love attempts to triumph over military red tape after the close of World War II. Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) is a French officer who is assigned to put a stop to a black market operation in occupied Germany with the help of Lt. Catherine Gates ..read more »
67%
from 961 members
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Red River
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., John Wayne
Director: Howard Hawks
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RED RIVER, Howard Hawks's masterpiece, is one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, a saga of obsession and rivalry between a man and his adoptive son amid an epic struggle for survival in the Old West. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) journeys west to Texas to build a cattle empire and adopts Matthew Garth,..read more »
69%
from 2,397 members
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A Song Is Born
(1948)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Director: Howard Hawks
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Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to ..read more »
65%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Elisha Cook Jr Jr.
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
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The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
74%
from 9,104 members
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Ball Of Fire
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka
Director: Howard Hawks
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Professor Bertram Potts is the youngest of eight bookish academics assembling a dictionary of slang. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of strip-tease dancer Kathryn "Sugar Puss" O'Shea, who has hidden out at the professors' domicile to escape Joe Lilac, her gangster ..read more »
72%
from 107 members
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His Girl Friday
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Director: Howard Hawks
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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism ..read more »
71%
from 4,514 members
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Only Angels Have Wings
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess
Director: Howard Hawks
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' macho mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a ..read more »
68%
from 1,129 member
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Barbary Coast
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
Director: Howard Hawks
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Edward G Robinson dominates this film as Louis, the owner of a saloon bar in the 1850's Red Light district of San Fransisco - the Barbary Coast. A cast of Hollywood regulars support Robinson in this rip-roaring tale of the saloons of the California Gold Rush starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, ..read more »
57%
from 37 members
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Twentieth Century
(1934)
Starring: John Barrymore
Director: Howard Hawks
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Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He ..read more »
71%
from 33 members
Currently unavailable
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Scarface
(1932)
Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Completed 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 it was held up for release until after that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy. Paul Muni stars as prohibition-era mobster ..read more »
72%
from 1,594 member
Not currently released
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