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Howard Hawks

July 2023

  • MARILYN MONROE, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, 1953<br>T03KF6 MARILYN MONROE, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, 1953

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 70: Marilyn Monroe remains a dazzling star

    Howard Hawks’ eye-catching comedy sees the actor at the height of her talents in a tale with more depth and intellect than even its director knew

January 2019

  • Barbara Stanwyck c1945.

    From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention

    Her versatility made her a star of Hollywood’s golden age, but Stanwyck’s best characters were always fighters who, like herself, had tasted life’s bitterness

June 2017

  • Sam Taylor-Johnson pictured shooting Fifty Shades Of Grey in 2015.

    Books blog
    Fifty Shades of cuts and bruises: Hollywood’s history of hurting writers

    EL James’s battles with director Sam Taylor-Johnson are part of a long tradition of conflicting ‘visions’. She is one of a small elite to beat the studios

May 2017

  • 1983, SCARFACE<br>AL PACINO Character(s): Tony Montana Film 'SCARFACE' (1983) Directed By BRIAN DE PALMA 01 December 1983 SSY97780 Allstar/UNIVERSAL (USA 1983) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNIVERSAL and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNIVERSAL is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Scarface-off: why another reboot would be a shot in the dark

  • Cary Grant in Charade

    Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life'

January 2017

  • His Girl Friday

    Cary Grant in screwball comedy His Girl Friday – video

    To mark what would have been Cary Grant’s 113th birthday, here’s the super-smooth comedy maestro opposite Rosalind Russell in comedy classic His Girl Friday

November 2016

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    First look review
    Rules Don't Apply review – Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes: a strangely compelling vanity project

    The legend’s odd and energetic film is a mix of fun, sadness and fatigue, and while not everything falls into place, it has its share of entertainment

May 2015

  • ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS

    Only Angels Have Wings: ‘An abundance of effervescence and energy’

    At 76 years young, Howard Hawks’s depiction of the ‘war of words’ between the sexes remains as pin-sharp as ever

June 2014

  • Joaquin Phoenix in Her

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVDs and downloads: Her, Exhibition, His Girl Friday and more

    Guy Lodge enjoys Spike Jonze's Oscar-winning script and Howard Hawks's hyper-verbal romantic comedy and more

November 2013

October 2013

  • 1948, RED RIVER

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Red River

    Hawks's first western saw John Wayne in his toughest role to date – and the screen debut of one Montgomery Clift, writes Philip French

September 2013

  • His Girl Friday

    Why I love ...
    Why I love … the first scene of His Girl Friday

    No newsroom has ever been so dazzling, no whipsmart dialogue sharper than that between Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. It’s so good, in fact, the rest of the movie can’t keep up, writes Martin Pengelly

August 2013

  • LAND OF THE PHAROAHS [US 1955]

    Reel history
    Land of the Pharaohs: the plot won't triangulate - reel history

    Alex von Tunzelmann: Howard Hawks's 1955 tale about the building of Khufu's Great Pyramid is a big camp mess with nothing in the throne room

July 2013

  • Unforgiven

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best westerns – in pictures

    Our film critic picks the finest movies from his favourite genre

February 2012

  • man on a ledge

    Man on a Ledge – review

    Acrophobes look the other way – this gripping, ingenious thriller is heady stuff, writes Philip French

November 2011

  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ulrich Thomsen in The Thing

    The Thing - still mutating after all these years

    The evolution of the Thing movies tells us a lot about recent American history, says John Patterson. They're also way more fun than they should be

  • Reality bites … Hope Davis and Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003).

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Readers' comments – week three

    We're picking out your finest responses to our My favourite film series, for which Guardian writers have selected the movies they go back to time and again.

    Here's a roundup of how you responded in week three, when the selections were American Splendor, The Red Shoes, The Princess Bride, Rio Bravo and Hoop Dreams

  • Setting the bar high … Angie Dickinson and John Wayne in Rio Bravo (1959)

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Rio Bravo

    In our writers' favourite films series, Tony Paley saddles up for a heartwarming tale of friendship and courage in the old west

March 2011

  • Jane Russell with Robert Mitchum in 1951’s His Kind of Woman

    Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood!

    Fixated by her pneumatic figure, Hollywood sold her as a smouldering sexpot. But there was so much more to Jane Russell than that, writes Kira Cochrane
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