Howard Hawks Movies

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy...

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...

The year is 1876 and Holderness "tyrant of the desert" is trying to force August Naab to sell his property. Naab's feisty daughter, Mescal has been...

A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when jilted by his girl. His drunkenness gets him thrown in jail, where he falls in love with the...

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons...

An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the...

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to...

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come...

Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.

An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to...

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...

To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college...

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and...

An appreciation of Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" (1959) by filmmakers and historians.