Howard Hawks
4 titles · american classical
Nearly every Hollywood genre got a Howard Hawks film, and in all of them people who are good at their jobs talk fast while they do them. In His Girl Friday a newspaper editor schemes to win back his star reporter, who is also his ex-wife. A sheriff holds a prisoner with help from a drunk, a disabled old man and a young gunfighter in Rio Bravo. Bringing Up Baby sends a museum scientist on a string of misadventures with Susan Vance, and The Big Sleep has Philip Marlowe untangling a blackmail case.
Signature
- Overlapping, rapid-fire dialogue.
- Tough, quick-witted women (His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby).
- Groups of professionals under pressure (Rio Bravo).
- Screwball comedy, noir and the western, all at full strength.
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