Characters from Scarface, Rio Bravo, and The Big Sleep
Standing as one of the greatest American directors to never win a competitive Oscar, Howard Hawks was the filmmaker behind numerous classics released during the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, and did ultimately receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1974. As an individual, he’s perhaps underrated, given he – along with various other filmmakers during this time in Hollywood history – hasn’t had his name as well-remembered as many of the films he directed.
9 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn There are a good many Howard Hawks movies that belong to stereotypically “masculine” genres, such as Westerns and crime/gangster films, but Gentlemen Prefer Blondes showed he also had it in him to make a great musical, not to mention one with female leads.
7 'Red River' Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru John Wayne might’ve made more Westerns with John Ford, but he still made a decently large number with the also prolific Howard Hawks, one of the best being Red River. It’s principally about two men initially cooperating but then clashing while taking on a large cattle drive that seems them – plus many, many cows – traveling from Texas to Missouri.
5 'Scarface' Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley While people nowadays will probably be more familiar with the 1983 movie of the same name, the original Scarface – released just over 50 years earlier – was similarly groundbreaking and gutsy for its time. It came out during something of a golden age for gangster movies, and tells a typical rise-and-fall story centering on an ambitious yet perhaps too trigger-happy criminal named Tony Camonte.
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