Howard Hawks is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Editor and Additional Writing American born on 30 may 1896 at Indiana (USA)
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks participated to
62 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
13 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
, 2h50
Directed by Brian De PalmaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Mob film,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Films about families,
Films about immigration,
Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
La précarité,
Gangster filmsActors Al Pacino,
Steven Bauer,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Robert Loggia,
Paul ShenarRoles Original Film Writer
Rating82%
In 1980, Cuban refugee Antonio "Tony" Montana (Al Pacino) arrives in Miami, where he is sent to a refugee camp with his best friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer) and their associates Angel (Pepe Serna) and Chi-Chi (Ángel Salazar). The four are released from the camp in exchange for assassinating a former Cuban government official at the request of wealthy drug dealer Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), and they are given green cards. They become dishwashers in a diner., 1h44
Directed by William FriedkinOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
La provence,
Films about drugs,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Rail transport films,
Road movies,
Chase films,
Gangster filmsActors Gene Hackman,
Fernando Rey,
Roy Scheider,
Tony Lo Bianco,
Marcel Bozzuffi,
Frédéric de PasqualeRating76%
In Marseille, an undercover detective is following Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), a wealthy French criminal who runs the largest heroin-smuggling syndicate in the world. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi). Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, French television personality Henri Devereaux (Frédéric de Pasquale).Director
, 2h14
Directed by Don Siegel,
Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
Action,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Gary Cooper,
Walter Brennan,
Joan Leslie,
George Tobias,
Stanley Ridges,
Margaret WycherlyRating76%
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his patient mother (Margaret Wycherly). He changes when he meets Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie), and works night and day to buy a good farm so she'll marry him. When he's cheated out of it at the last minute, he returns to his dissolute ways., 2h31
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about animals,
Mise en scène d'un éléphant,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors John Wayne,
Elsa Martinelli,
Hardy Krüger,
Red Buttons,
Gérard Blain,
Bruce CabotRating70%
Hatari! is the story of a group of adventurers in East Africa, engaged in the exciting and lucrative but dangerous business of catching wild animals for delivery to zoos around the world. As "Momella Game Ltd.", they operate from a compound near the town of Arusha. The head of the group is Sean Mercer (John Wayne); the others are safari veteran Little Wolf a/k/a "Indian" (Bruce Cabot), drivers "Pockets" (Red Buttons), and Kurt (Hardy Krüger), roper Luis (a Mexican former bullfighter; Valentin de Vargas), and Brandy (Michele Girardon), a young woman whose late father was a member of the group; she grew up there., 2h6
Directed by Howard Hawks,
Arthur RossonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternActors John Wayne,
Montgomery Clift,
Walter Brennan,
Joanne Dru,
Coleen Gray,
John IrelandRating77%
Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) is a stubborn man who wants nothing more than to start up a successful cattle ranch in Texas. Shortly after he begins his journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), Dunson learns that his love interest (Coleen Gray), whom he had told to stay behind with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send for her later, was killed in an Indian attack. Despite this tragedy, Dunson and Groot press on. That night, Dunson and Groot, keeping watch, hear a group of Indians planning to attack them. They kill the Indians, and on the wrist of one, Dunson finds a bracelet he had been left by his late mother. One day before, he had presented it to his young love as he left the wagon train. The bracelet reappears significantly later in the film., 2h6
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Action,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors John Wayne,
Robert Mitchum,
James Caan,
Arthur Hunnicutt,
Charlene Holt,
Paul FixRating74%
Cole Thornton (John Wayne), a gunslinger-for-hire, is hired by wealthy rancher Bart Jason (Ed Asner) to help him in a range war with the McDonald family in the town of El Dorado. The local sheriff, an old friend of Thornton, J. P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum) gives Cole more details that Jason had deliberately left out, including the possibility of having to side against Harrah. Unwilling to fight his friend, Thornton quits, to the relief of saloon owner Maudie (Charlene Holt), who is in love with Thornton (and was for a time a romantic interest of Harrah's)., 2h21
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Buddy filmsActors John Wayne,
Dean Martin,
Angie Dickinson,
Rick Nelson,
Walter Brennan,
Ward BondRating79%
In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude (Dean Martin), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname Borrachón ([bo.raˈtʃon], Spanish for "drunk"), enters a saloon but can't afford a drink. Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), brother of rancher Nathan Burdette, tosses a silver dollar into a spittoon. Presidio County, Texas Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) appears and kicks the spittoon away, looking at Dude with disgust. Dude is shamed by his plight and takes out his anger on Chance, knocking him out with an ax handle. Joe begins punching Dude, then shoots and kills an unarmed bystander who tries to intervene., 1h54
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Action,
WesternThemes Political filmsActors John Wayne,
Jennifer O'Neill,
Jorge Rivero,
Jack Elam,
Christopher Mitchum,
Victor FrenchRating66%
The film opens during the American Civil War. Col. Cord McNally (John Wayne) has instructions telegraphed to his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe (Peter Jason), in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum) hijack the train. They have an elegant plan of listening in on the telegraph wires, greasing the tracks to stop the train, disconnecting the payroll wagon from the engine so it would roll back down the hill, using a hornet's nest to force the Union guards to jump off the train, then catching the train with many ropes tied to trees. In the process, Lt. Forsythe is fatally injured., 1h37
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Prison films,
Films based on playsActors Walter Huston,
Phillips Holmes,
Constance Cummings,
Boris Karloff,
Andy Devine,
DeWitt JenningsRating68%
Six years of stress and hard labor working in the prison jute mill has taken its toll on young Robert Graham. The penitentiary's resident doctor and psychiatrist recommends that Warden Brady see him and proposes that he offer him a drastic change of environment and duties before his psychological damages become irreversible. When the warden realizes who the inmate is, or rather was, and recalls that it was he that helped put him behind bars (as with many of the prisoners), he agrees to give him a chance and offers him a job as his valet. Graham enjoys his new employment, especially since he is frequently in the company of the warden's pretty young daughter, Mary. He improves in general character and demeanor and regains his morale., 1h42
Directed by Howard Hawks,
W. S. Van DykeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Boxing filmsActors Myrna Loy,
Vince Barnett,
Robert McWade,
Walter Huston,
Otto Kruger,
Arthur HoytRating62%
While working as a barroom bouncer, sailor Steve Morgan (Max Baer) impresses alcoholic ex-boxing manager "the Professor" (Walter Huston) with his skills. The Professor talks Steve into entering a prize fight with an up-and-coming boxer to make money for both of them., 1h39
Directed by Richard Rosson,
William Wyler,
Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Edward Arnold,
Joel McCrea,
Frances Farmer,
Walter Brennan,
Andrea Leeds,
Mary NashRating68%
The story focuses on ruthless Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold), who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal as he rises in rank from lowly lumberjack to the head of the logging industry in 19th century Wisconsin. His determination to succeed eventually leads him to end his relationship with saloon singer Lotta Morgan (Frances Farmer) and marry Emma Louise Hewitt (Mary Nash), the daughter of his boss Jed Hewett (Charles Halton), in order to secure a partnership in his business., 2h4
Directed by Howard HawksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Politique,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors John Garfield,
John Ridgely,
Gig Young,
Harry Carey,
Charles Drake,
John Arthur KennedyRating69%
On December 6, 1941, at Hamilton Field, near San Francisco, a United States Army Air Corps B-17D bomber Mary-Ann and its crew are being readied for a flight across the Pacific.Scriptwriter
, 1h29
Directed by Henry Hathaway,
Josef von Sternberg,
Arthur RossonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Gangster filmsActors Clive Brook,
George Bancroft,
Evelyn Brent,
Larry Semon,
Fred Kohler,
Helen LynchRoles Writer
Rating74%
Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aiding Weed's schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed's girlfriend 'Feathers' McCoy.