Howard Hawks

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  El Dorado

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2009

  By 1967, a studio Western with John Wayne, directed by Hollywood legend Howard Hawks, just seemed obsolete and out of date. Hawks was known...

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  Rio Bravo

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  To many, Rio Bravo is a pinnacle — the ultimate Western, a distillation of the genre’s thematic tropes, starring iconic man’s man John Wayn...

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  Ball of Fire

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

  This isn’t prime Howard Hawks by any stretch but its screwball spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs still makes for a sparkling bit of H...

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  Bringing Up Baby

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  What's lost in the long-cemented images of Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant — she the impossibly sophisticated independent woman, he the in...

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  Barbary Coast

  Howard Hawks

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

  This isn't a great Howard Hawks film by a long shot, but it's got some dark atmospherics that lift it above the merely average. Miriam Hopk...