Howard Hawks — Director (24)
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His Girl Friday (1940) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
His Girl Friday
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Rosalind Russell …
other title: La signora del venerdì / Sensationen …
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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The Big Sleep (1946) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
The Big Sleep
director: Howard Hawks actor: Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall …
other title: Il grande sonno / Marlowe: Sternwood-Mysteriet …
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Scarface (1932) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Scarface
director: Howard Hawks actor: Paul Muni / Ann Dvorak …
other title: Scarface - Lo sfregiato / Scarface, A Vergonha de Uma Nação …
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Rio Bravo (1959) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rio Bravo
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Wayne / Dean Martin …
other title: Un dollaro d'onore / Río Bravo
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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El Dorado (1966) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB
El Dorado
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Wayne / Robert Mitchum …
other title: 西部双雄 / 艾尔·杜拉多 …
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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Rio Lobo (1970) [Movie] TMDB
Rio Lobo
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Wayne / Jorge Rivero …
other title: Río Lobo
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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To Have and Have Not (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
To Have and Have Not
director: Howard Hawks actor: Humphrey Bogart / Walter Brennan …
other title: Acque del Sud / At Have Og Ikke Have …
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
director: Howard Hawks actor: Jane Russell / Marilyn Monroe …
other title: Gli uomini preferiscono le bionde / Gentlemen foretrækker blondiner …
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
1950s comedon comedy janerussell marilynmonroe
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Monkey Business (1952) [Movie] TMDB
Monkey Business
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Il magnifico scherzo / Liebling, ich werde jünger …
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Twentieth Century (1934) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Twentieth Century
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Barrymore / Carole Lombard …
other title: Ventesimo secolo / Napoleon vom Broadway …
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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Hatari! (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Hatari!
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Wayne / Hardy Krüger …
other title: Hatari / 哈泰利 …
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
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Ball of Fire (1941) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ball of Fire
director: Howard Hawks actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Colpo di fulmine / Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss …
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Air Force (1943) [Movie] TMDB
Air Force
director: Howard Hawks actor: John Ridgely / Gig Young …
other title: Arcipelago in fiamme / In die japanische Sonne …
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.
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) [Movie] TMDB
Only Angels Have Wings
director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Jean Arthur …
other title: Avventurieri dell'aria / Paraíso Infernal …
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Man's Favorite Sport?
director: Howard Hawks actor: Rock Hudson / Paula Prentiss …
other title: Lo sport preferito dall'uomo / O Desporto Favorito dos Homens …
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
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Fig Leaves (1926) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fig Leaves
director: Howard Hawks actor: George O'Brien / Olive Borden …
other title: Le disgrazie di Adamo / Hojas de parra …
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
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Red Line 7000 (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Red Line 7000
director: Howard Hawks actor: James Caan / Laura Devon …
other title: Linea rossa 7000 / Rote Linie 7000 …
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world.
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Fazil (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fazil
director: Howard Hawks actor: Charles Farrell / Greta Nissen …
other title: Oasi dell'amore / El príncipe Fazil …
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.