Howard Hawks
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Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. The critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a househ
Hawks in the 1940s
Poster for the comedy Fig Leaves (1926), one of the few early films Hawks valued positively later in his life.
A Girl in Every Port poster
Howard Hawks in 1929 or 1930
Rio Bravo (film)
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Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. Written by Jules Fur
Howard Hawks
…1940), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define the "Hawksian woman". His work has influenced such directors…
Theatrical release poster
John Wayne and Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo
Ricky Nelson performing the song "Get Along Home, Cindy" in Rio Bravo
Dean Martin