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Howard Hawks’s glorious 1953 Technicolor musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is perfectly tailored to the very special talents of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, seen at their enchanting best as singer gold-diggers Dorothy and Lorelei. […]
Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film Bringing Up Baby is the quintessential 30s screwball comedy, providing a perfect zany showcase for its all-time great stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Director Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic is […]
The laughable 1955 ancient Egyptian historical epic Land of the Pharaohs is a total misfire. It’s very, very bad indeed, but nevertheless great, camp fun for collectors of terrible movies and those who like to […]
Producer-director Howard Hawks’s mammoth epic 1948 classic Western gives John Wayne one of his best ever roles as Thomas ‘Tom’ Dunson, a tyrannical empire-building cattleman. He seems to relish kicking up the dust, playing opposite […]
Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]
‘Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!’ This distinguished, influential and imaginatively staged 1951 vintage sci-fi horror thriller, remade by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell as The Thing in 1982, is still a […]
Based on the novel by Armitage Trail, director Howard Hawks’s 1932 release is still an all-time great gangster movie, and wears remarkably well given its venerable age. It’s a troubling, but thrillingly exciting film, a […]