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Hawks On Hawks
''Hawks on Hawks'' is a book of interviews between critic Joseph McBride and director Howard Hawks first published in 1982. Hawks explains his views on directing and storytelling, and his work with such stars as Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe and such writers as Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Leigh Brackett, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Background McBride explains the origins of the book: "François Truffaut, the French director and critic who conducted a landmark book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock in the mid-1960s, told me in 1974 that he wished a similar book could be done with Hawks... Oddly enough, when Truffaut suggested to me that someone should do a book on Hawks comparable to his book on Hitchcock, I was then in the process of doing just such a book without even realizing it. I first met Hawks in November 1970, at the Chicago Film Festival, a month before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph McBride (writer)
Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written books on a variety of subjects including notable film directors, screenwriting, the JFK assassination, and a memoir of his youth. He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. Career Early life and career Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, McBride grew up in the suburb of Wauwatosa. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked as a reporter for the ''Wisconsin State Journal'' in Madison, before moving to California in 1973. Books McBride has published more than 20 books, including biographies of directors Steven Spielberg (''Steven Spielberg: A Biography'', 1997, and published in translation in mainland China in 2012), Frank Capra (''Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success'', 1992), two of John Ford: ''John Ford'' (with Michael Wilmington, 1974) and ''Searching for John Ford)'' (2001) and three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitchcock/Truffaut
''Hitchcock/Truffaut'' is a 1966 book by François Truffaut about Alfred Hitchcock, originally released in French as ''Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock''. First published by Éditions Robert Laffont, it is based on a 1962 dialogue between Hitchcock and Truffaut, in which the two directors spent a week in a room at Universal Studios talking about movies. The book walks through all of Hitchcock's films, from his early British period to '' Torn Curtain''. After Hitchcock's death, Truffaut updated the book with a new preface and final chapter on Hitchcock's later films ''Topaz'', '' Frenzy'' and ''Family Plot'', as well as his unrealized project '' The Short Night''. Background In the preface to the revised edition, Truffaut explains that "In 1962, while in New York to present ''Jules and Jim'', I noticed that every journalist asked me the same question: 'Why do the critics of '' Cahiers du Cinéma'' take Hitchcock so seriously? He's rich and successful, but his movies have no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Furthman
Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966) was an American magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. Pauline Kael once wrote that Furthman "has written about half of the most entertaining movies to come out of Hollywood (Ben Hecht wrote most of the other half)." Biography Furthman was born in Chicago. His brother was the writer Charles Furthman. During World War I he wrote under the pen name "Stephen Fox" as he thought Furthman sounded too German. He wrote screenplays for a number of important or popular films, including '' The Docks of New York'' (1928), '' Thunderbolt'' (1929), '' Merely Mary Ann'' (1931), '' Shanghai Express'' (1932), '' Bombshell'' (1933), ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1935), '' Come and Get It'' (1936), '' Only Angels Have Wings'' (1939), '' To Have and Have Not'' (1944), '' The Big Sleep'' (1946), and '' Nightmare Alley'' (1947). He wrote credited screenplays for eight films directed by Josef von Sternberg and an equal number fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Bravo (film)
''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 Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story "Rio Bravo" by B.H. McCampbell, the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in jail until a U.S. Marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. ''Rio Bravo'' was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Eastmancolor, with film processing provided by Technicolor. In 2014, ''Rio Bravo'' was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Plot Joe Burdette, the spoiled younger brother of wealthy land baron Nathan Burdette, taunts town drun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red River (1948 Film)
''Red River'' is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive between the Texas rancher who initiated it (Wayne) and his adopted adult son (Clift). The film's supporting cast features: Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey Jr. and Paul Fix. Borden Chase and Charles Schnee wrote the screenplay based on Chase's original story (which was first serialized in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1946 as "Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail"). Upon its release, ''Red River'' was both a critical and commercial success and was nominated for two Academy Awards. In 1990, ''Red River'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Sleep (1946 Film)
''The Big Sleep'' is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders. Initially produced in late 1944, the film's release was delayed by more than a year owing to the studio wanting to release war films in anticipation of the end of World War II. A cut was released to servicemen overseas in 1945 shortly after its completion. During the delay, Bogart and Bacall married and Bacall was cast in '' Confidential Agent''. When that movie failed, reshoots were done in early 1946 meant to take advantage of the public's fascination with "Bogie and Bacall". ''The Big Sleep'' was finally released by Warner Bros on August 31, 1946. The film was a critical and commercial success and led to two more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Have And Have Not (film)
''To Have and Have Not'' is a 1944 American romantic war adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall; it also features Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Seymour, and Marcel Dalio. The plot, centered on the romance between a freelancing fisherman in Martinique and a beautiful American drifter, is complicated by the growing French resistance in Vichy France. Hemingway and Hawks were close friends and, on a fishing trip, Hawks told Hemingway, who was reluctant to go into screenwriting, that he could make a great movie from his worst book, which Hawks admitted was ''To Have and Have Not''. Jules Furthman wrote the first screenplay, which, like the novel, was set in Cuba. However, the screenplay was altered to be set in Martinique, because the portrayal of Cuba's government was believed to be in violation of the United States' Good Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball Of Fire
''Ball of Fire'' (also known as ''The Professor and the Burlesque Queen'') is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The Samuel Goldwyn Productions film (originally distributed by RKO) concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge. The supporting cast includes Oscar Homolka, S. Z. Sakall, Henry Travers, Richard Haydn, Dana Andrews, and Dan Duryea. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. In 1948, Hawks recycled the plot for a musical film, '' A Song Is Born'', this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Plot A group of professors, all bachelors except for one widower, have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant York (film)
''Sergeant York'' is a 1941 American biographical film about the life of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Directed by Howard Hawks, the film stars Gary Cooper in the title role, and was based on York's diary, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard Koch (screenwriter), Howard E. Koch, and Sam Cowan (uncredited). York refused, several times, to authorize a film version of his life story, but finally yielded to persistent efforts to finance the creation of an interdenominational Bible school. The story that York insisted on Cooper for the title role comes from a telegram that producer Jesse L. Lasky wrote to Cooper pleading with him to accept the part, to which he signed York's name. ''Sergeant York'' was a critical and commercial success, and became 1941 in film, the highest-grossing film of 1941. Cooper went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, while the film al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Girl Friday
''His Girl Friday'' is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The plot centers on a newspaper editor named Walter Burns who is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play ''The Front Page'' by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted for the screen, the first occasion being the 1931 film which kept the original title ''The Front Page (1931 film), The Front Page''. The script for ''His Girl Friday'' was written by Charles Lederer with the most major alteration to the source material being the changing of Hildy Johnson's gender, an idea i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twentieth Century (film)
''Twentieth Century'' is a 1934 American pre-Code screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, and Roscoe Karns. Much of the film is set on the '' 20th Century Limited'' train as it travels from Chicago to New York City. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their 1932 Broadway play of the same name—itself based on the unproduced play ''Napoleon of Broadway'' by Charles Bruce Millholland—with uncredited contributions from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges. Along with Frank Capra's ''It Happened One Night'', also released in 1934 (which coincidentally has the same music over the opening titles), ''Twentieth Century'' is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy. "Howard Hawks' rapid-fire romantic comedy established the essential ingredients of the ''screwball'' – a dizzy dame, a charming, but befuddled, hero, dazzling dialogue, and a dash of slapstick." Its success propelled Lombard into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarface (1932 Film)
''Scarface'' (also known as ''Scarface: The Shame of the Nation'' and ''The Shame of a Nation'') is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail, which was inspired by Al Capone. The film stars Paul Muni as Italian immigrant gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte who violently rises through the Chicago gangland, with a supporting cast that includes George Raft and Boris Karloff. Camonte's rise to power dovetails with his relentless pursuit of his boss's mistress while his sister pursues his best hitman. In an overt tie to the life of Capone, a version of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is depicted. After purchasing the rights to Trail's novel, Hughes quickly selected Hawks to direct and Hecht to write the film's screenplay. Beginning in January 1931, Hecht wrote the script in 11 days. ''Scarface'' was produced befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
