In the golden age of Hollywood, many filmmakers found their niche, and stuck to it. Director-producer Howard Hawks reveled in variety, taking on each new project as a fresh challenge, as if making good on a dare. Hawks tackled comedies, westerns, literary adaptations, gangster pictures, racecar thrills, and. outer space chills. No matter the genre, he treated each film with steely professionalism, unsentimental emotion, and an earnest engagement with each new milieu. Working effortlessly with Hollywood's biggest stars (Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, John Wayne), including several he 'discovered' himself (Lauren Bacall, James Caan, Gail Hire), Hawks developed an unostentatious style that allowed his collaborators to shine. In the words of John T. Chance, "He's so good, he doesn't feel he has to prove it."
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Bringing Up Baby
Opens February 8
Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating... Read more
His Girl Friday
Opens February 1
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milq... Read more
Only Angels Have Wings
Opens February 16
At a remote South American port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots’ lives to win an important contract when a traveli... Read more
Red Line 7000
Opens January 26
The first of two films that James Caan would make with legendary filmmaker Howard Hawks—they collaborated on El Dorado a year later—was also the actor... Read more
The Thing from Another World
Opens February 15
When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick... Read more
To Have and Have Not
Opens February 23
Humphrey Bogart (having just come off the success of CASABLANCA and THE MALTESE FALCON) couldn't have been a bigger star at the time, and finding a co... Read more
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