90% Rio Bravo 141 min, [Action, Drama, Western] [Howard Hawks] [04 Apr 1959]Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
Actors: Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, John Wayne, Ricky Nelson
Plot: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Writer: Jules Furthman (screenplay), Leigh Brackett (screenplay), B.H. McCampbell (short story)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
89% Scarface 93 min, PG, [Action, Crime, Drama] [Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson(co-director)] [09 Apr 1932]Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, Paul Muni
Plot: An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Writer: Armitage Trail (based on the novel by), Ben Hecht (screen story), Seton I. Miller (continuity), John Lee Mahin (continuity), W.R. Burnett (continuity), Seton I. Miller (dialogue), John Lee Mahin (dialogue), W.R. Burnett (dialogue)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
89% Red River 133 min, [Action, Adventure, Romance] [Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson(co-director)] [17 Sep 1948]Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors: Joanne Dru, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan
Plot: Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Writer: Borden Chase (screenplay), Charles Schnee (screenplay), Borden Chase (from "The Saturday Evening Post" story)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
89% Ball of Fire 111 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [09 Jan 1942]Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win.
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Henry Travers, Oskar Homolka
Plot: A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Writer: Charles Brackett (screen play), Billy Wilder (screen play), Billy Wilder (from an original story by), Thomas Monroe (from an original story by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB
89% His Girl Friday 92 min, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [18 Jan 1940]Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Cary Grant, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell
Plot: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Writer: Charles Lederer (screen play), Ben Hecht (from the play "The Front Page"), Charles MacArthur (from the play "The Front Page")
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
88% The Big Sleep 114 min, [Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery] [Howard Hawks] [31 Aug 1946]Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, John Ridgely, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers
Plot: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Writer: William Faulkner (screen play), Leigh Brackett (screen play), Jules Furthman (screen play), Raymond Chandler (short story "Killer in the Rain")
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
88% To Have and Have Not 100 min, [Adventure, Comedy, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [20 Jan 1945]Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Dolores Moran, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
Plot: During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Writer: Ernest Hemingway (novel), Jules Furthman (screen play), William Faulkner (screen play)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB
87% Only Angels Have Wings 121 min, [Adventure, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [25 May 1939]Ratings: IMDB 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, Metacritic 86/100, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win.
Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth
Plot: At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract.
Writer: Jules Furthman (screen play)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
87% Bringing Up Baby 102 min, [Comedy, Family, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [18 Feb 1938]Ratings: IMDB 8.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 95%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Catlett
Plot: While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Writer: Dudley Nichols (screen play), Hagar Wilde (screen play), Hagar Wilde (from the story by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
85% Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 91 min, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [01 Aug 1953]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe
Plot: Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Writer: Charles Lederer (screen play), Joseph Fields (based on the musical comedy by), Anita Loos (based on the musical comedy by)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
85% The Big Sky 140 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Western] [Howard Hawks] [27 Nov 1952]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Arthur Hunnicutt, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Kirk Douglas
Plot: The success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet.
Writer: Dudley Nichols (screenplay), A.B. Guthrie Jr. (novel)
Language: English, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
84% Barbary Coast 91 min, [Adventure, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks, William Wyler] [27 Dec 1935]Ratings: IMDB 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, Walter Brennan
Plot: Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She...
Writer: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% Twentieth Century 91 min, [Comedy, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [11 May 1934]Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Roscoe Karns, Walter Connolly
Plot: A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
Writer: Charles Bruce Millholland (play), Ben Hecht (screenplay), Charles MacArthur (screenplay)
Language: English, German Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
81% Sergeant York 134 min, [Biography, Drama, History] [Howard Hawks] [27 Sep 1941]Ratings: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 85%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 10 nominations.
Actors: Gary Cooper, George Tobias, Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan
Plot: A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Writer: Abem Finkel (original screen play), Harry Chandlee (original screen play), Howard Koch (original screen play), John Huston (original screen play), Alvin C. York (based upon: the diary of), Tom Skeyhill (diary editor)
Language: English, French, German Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
80% Come and Get It 99 min, PASSED, [Drama] [Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson] [23 Dec 1936]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan
Plot: An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Writer: Edna Ferber (based upon the famous novel by), Jane Murfin (screen play), Jules Furthman (screen play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
80% The Thing from Another World 87 min, APPROVED, [Horror, Sci-Fi] [Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks] [22 Jul 1951]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Douglas Spencer, James Arness, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Plot: Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Writer: Charles Lederer (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (based on the story "Who Goes There?" by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
79% Monkey Business 97 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [Howard Hawks] [07 Nov 1952]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Actors: Cary Grant, Charles Coburn, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe
Plot: A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
Writer: Ben Hecht (screenplay), Charles Lederer (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay), Harry Segall (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
79% Air Force 124 min, APPROVED, [Action, Drama, History] [Howard Hawks] [20 Mar 1943]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, Gig Young, John Garfield, John Ridgely
Plot: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Writer: Dudley Nichols (original screenplay)
Language: English, Japanese Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
79% The Dawn Patrol 108 min, [War, Drama, Action] [Howard Hawks] [20 Aug 1930]Ratings: IMDB 7.9/10, External Reviews
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Frank McHugh, Neil Hamilton, Richard Barthelmess
Plot: World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Writer: John Monk Saunders (story "The Flight Commander"), Dan Totheroh (adaptation), Howard Hawks (adaptation), Seton I. Miller (adaptation)
Language: English, German, French Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
75% I Was a Male War Bride 105 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance, War] [Howard Hawks] [19 Sep 1949]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Cary Grant, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart
Plot: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Writer: Charles Lederer (screenplay), Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay), Hagar Wilde (screenplay), Henri Rochard (story)
Language: English, German, French Country: USA, UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
73% O. Henry's Full House 117 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco] [27 Oct 1952]Ratings: IMDB 7.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Baxter, Farley Granger, Fred Allen, Jeanne Crain
Plot: John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.
Writer: Lamar Trotti (screen play), Richard L. Breen (screen play), Ivan Goff (screen play), Ben Roberts (screen play), Walter Bullock (screen play)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Viva Villa! 115 min, [Biography, Western] [Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman] [27 Apr 1934]Ratings: IMDB 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
Actors: Donald Cook, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Wallace Beery
Plot: In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death. In 1910, he befriends American reporter Johnny Sykes. ...
Writer: Ben Hecht (screen play), Edgecumb Pinchon (suggested by the book by), O.B. Stade (suggested by the book by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% The Outlaw 116 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks] [07 Nov 1946]Ratings: IMDB 5.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews
Actors: Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston
Plot: Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.
Writer: Jules Furthman (screenplay)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB
71% Land of the Pharaohs 106 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Drama, History] [Howard Hawks] [24 Jun 1955]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews
Actors: Alexis Minotis, Dewey Martin, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins
Plot: A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Writer: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% The Criminal Code 97 min, PASSED, [Crime, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [03 Jan 1931]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: Boris Karloff, Constance Cummings, Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston
Plot: After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Writer: Martin Flavin (from the stage play by), Fred Niblo Jr. (adaptation), Seton I. Miller (adaptation)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% The Road to Glory 103 min, [Drama, War] [Howard Hawks] [04 Sep 1936]Ratings: IMDB 7.0/10, External Reviews
Actors: Fredric March, June Lang, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter
Plot: The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Writer: Joel Sayre (screenplay), William Faulkner (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
69% Rio Lobo 114 min, G, [Adventure, Romance, War] [Howard Hawks] [18 Dec 1970]Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Jack Elam, Jennifer O'Neill, John Wayne, Jorge Rivero
Plot: After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Writer: Burton Wohl (screenplay), Leigh Brackett (screenplay), Burton Wohl (story)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
69% Hatari! 157 min, APPROVED, [Action, Adventure, Drama] [Howard Hawks] [19 Jun 1962]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 67%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, John Wayne, Red Buttons
Plot: A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
Writer: Leigh Brackett (screenplay), Harry Kurnitz (story)
Language: English, Swahili Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
69% Ceiling Zero 95 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [16 Jan 1936]Ratings: IMDB 6.9/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: James Cagney, June Travis, Pat O'Brien, Stuart Erwin
Plot: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this, he changes flights with ...
Writer: Frank Wead (play), Frank Wead (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
68% Man's Favorite Sport? 120 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [13 Mar 1964]Ratings: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 64%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: John McGiver, Maria Perschy, Paula Prentiss, Rock Hudson
Plot: The author of a best-selling fishing guide is actually incredibly inexperienced when it comes to the sport, which causes mayhem when he is entered into a competition.
Writer: Pat Frank (story "The Girl Who Almost Got Away"), John Fenton Murray, Steve McNeil
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
68% A Girl in Every Port 78 min, PASSED, [Action, Adventure, Comedy] [Howard Hawks] [26 Feb 1928]Ratings: IMDB 6.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Louise Brooks, Maria Alba, Robert Armstrong, Victor McLaglen
Plot: Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
Writer: Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness (screen story), Seton I. Miller (scenario), Sidney Lanfield (associate writer), Reggie Morris (associate writer), Malcolm Stuart Boylan (titles)
Language: N/A Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
67% Corvette K-225 98 min, APPROVED, [Drama, War] [Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks] [29 Sep 1943]Ratings: IMDB 6.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, James Brown, Randolph Scott
Plot: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Writer: John Rhodes Sturdy (original screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
65% Tiger Shark 77 min, UNRATED, [Drama, Romance] [Howard Hawks] [24 Sep 1932]Ratings: IMDB 6.5/10, External Reviews
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Leila Bennett, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann
Plot: A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.
Writer: Houston Branch (original story "Tuna"), Wells Root (screen play)
Language: English, Portuguese Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
64% The Prizefighter and the Lady 102 min, PASSED, [Comedy, Crime, Romance] [W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks] [10 Nov 1933]Ratings: IMDB 6.4/10, External Reviews
Actors: Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera
Plot: An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Writer: John Lee Mahin (screen play), John Meehan (screen play), Frances Marion (from the story by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
60% A Song Is Born 113 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Music, Musical] [Howard Hawks] [19 Oct 1948]Ratings: IMDB 7.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews
Actors: Benny Goodman, Danny Kaye, Tommy Dorsey, Virginia Mayo
Plot: With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.
Writer: Billy Wilder (based on the story "From A to Z" by), Thomas Monroe (based on the story "From A to Z" by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
57% Today We Live 113 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Romance, War] [Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson] [14 Apr 1933]Ratings: IMDB 5.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Franchot Tone, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Robert Young
Plot: During WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
Writer: William Faulkner (story "Turn About"), Edith Fitzgerald (screenplay), Dwight Taylor (screenplay), William Faulkner (dialogue)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia