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  Spotlight on Howard Hawks

  Spotlight on Howard Hawks

  What makes Howard Hawks’s films “some of the most purely pleasurable movies in the history of cinema”? In this introduction, critic Imogen Sara Smith explores the Hollywood legend’s approach to improvisation, blending genres, overlapping dialogue, and keen interest in human behavior and interaction.

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  Red River

  Red River

  Directed by Howard Hawks • 1948 • United States
  Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan

  No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart RED RIVER. In it, John Wayne found on...

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  Ball of Fire

  Ball of Fire

  Directed by Howard Hawks • 1941 • United States
  Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck

  Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks in this snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale. She’s a burlesque queen with a colorful vocabulary who needs to lay low for a while as the police close in on ...