Cast: Jack Buetel (Billy the Kid), Jane Russell (Rio), Thomas Mitchell (Pat Garrett), Walter Huston
(Doc Holliday), Mimi Aguglia (Guadalupe), Joe Sawyer (Charley), Gene Rizzi (stranger).
Air Force
(Warner Bros.)
Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Howard Hawks. (Additional scenes directed by Vincent Sherman, uncredited.) Screenplay: Dudley Nichols (and William Faulkner, uncredited). Cinematographer: James Wong Howe. Aerial cameramen: Elmer Dyer, Charles Marshall. Editor: George Amy. Music:
Franz Waxman. Art director: John Hughes. Set decorator: Walter F. Tilford. Costumes: Milo Anderson. Sound: Oliver S. Garretson. Second-unit director: B. Reeves Eason. Assistant director: Jack Sullivan. Unit production manager: Chuck Hansen. Special effects: Roy Davidson (director, miniatures), Rex Wimpy, and Hans F. Koenekamp (background photography). Chief pilot: Paul Mantz. Running time: 124 minutes.
Filmed in Hollywood, Tampa, June–October 1942. Released February 3, 1943.
Cast: John Ridgely (Capt. Michael A. Quincannon), Gig Young (Lt. Xavier W. Williams), Arthur Kennedy (Lt. Tom McMartin), Charles Drake (Lt. M. W. Hauser), Harry Carey (Sgt. Skip White), George Tobias (Cpl. B. B. Weinberg), Ward Wood (Cpl. Gus Peterson), Ray Montgomery (Pvt. Henry Chester), John Garfield (Sgt. John B. Winocki),
James Brown (Lt. Tex Rader), Stanley Ridges (Mallory), Willard Robertson (colonel), Moroni Olsen (commanding officer), Edward S. Brophy (Callahan), Richard Lane (Maj. Roberts), Bill Crago (Lt. Moran), Faye Emerson (Susan McMartin), Addison Richards (Maj. Daniels), James Flavin (Maj. Bagley), Ann Doran (Mary Quincannon), Dorothy Peterson (Mrs. Chester).
Corvette K-225
(Universal)
Producer: Howard
Hawks. Director: Richard Rosson (and Hawks, uncredited). Screenplay: Lt. John Rhodes Sturdy, R.C.N.V.R. (and, uncredited, Edward Chodorov). Cinematographers: Tony Gaudio (studio), Harry F. Perry, and Bert A. Eason (location). Editor: Edward Curtiss. Art director: Robert Boyle. Special effects: John Fulton. Assistant director: William Tummel. Unit production manager: Vernon Keays. Running time:
99 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, February–May 1943, Nova Scotia, Montreal, and Atlantic Ocean, May–July 1943. Released September 29, 1943.
Cast: Randolph Scott (Lt. Com. MacClain), James Brown (Paul Cartwright), Ella Raines (Joyce Cartwright), Barry Fitzgerald (Stooky O’Meara), Andy Devine (Walsh), Fuzzy Knight (Cricket), Noah Beery Jr. (Stone), Richard Lane (Admiral), Thomas Gomez (Smithy),
David Bruce (Rawlins), Murray Alper (Jones), James Flavin (Gardner), Walter Sande (Evans).
To Have and Have Not
(Warner Bros.)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, from the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematographer: Sid Hickox. Editor: Christian Nyby. Music: Max Steiner. Song (“How Little We Know”): music, Hoagy Carmichael; lyrics, Johnny Mercer.
Art director: Charles Novi. Set decorator: Casey Roberts. Gowns: Milo Anderson. Sound: Oliver S. Garretson. Technical advisor: Louis
Comien. Special effects: Roy Davidson (director), Rex Wimpy (cameraman). Assistant director: Jack Sullivan. Running time: 100 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, February–May 1944. Released October 11, 1944, in New York, January 1945 in the rest of the United States.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Harry “Steve” Morgan), Walter Brennan (Eddie), Lauren Bacall (Marie “Slim” Browning), Dolores Moran (Hélène de Bursac), Hoagy Carmichael (Cricket), Sheldon Leonard (Lt. Coyo), Walter Molnar (Paul de Bursac), Marcel Dalio (Gérard, or “Frenchy”), Walter Sande (Johnson), Dan Seymour (Capt. Renard), Aldo Nadi (bodyguard), Paul Marion (Beauclerc), Patricia Shay (Mrs. Beauclerc),
Pat West (bartender), Emmett Smith (bartender), Janette Grae (Rosalie), Sir Lancelot (Horatio), Eugene Borden (quartermaster), Elzie Emanuel, Harold Garrison (children), Pedro Regas (civilian), Major Fred Farrell (headwaiter), Adrienne d’Ambricourt (cashier), Hal Kelly (detective), Ron Randell (ensign), Audrey Armstrong (dancer), Marguerita Sylva (cashier), Chef Joseph Milani (chef), Maurice Marsac,
Fred Dosch, George Suzanne, Louis Mercier, Crane Whitley (de Gaullists).
(Remade as
The Breaking Point
by Warner Bros. and director Michael Curtiz in 1950 and as
The Gun Runners
by Seven Arts/United Artists and director Don Siegel in 1958).
The Big Sleep
(Warner Bros.)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman (and, Philip Epstein,
uncredited), from the novel by Raymond Chandler. Cinematographer: Sid Hickox. Editor: Christian Nyby. Music: Max Steiner. Art director: Carl Jules Weyl. Set decorator: Fred M. MacLean. Wardrobe: Leah Rhodes. Special effects: E. Roy Davidson (director), Warren E. Lynch. Assistant director: Robert Vreland. Unit production manager: Chuck Hansen. Running time: 116 minutes (first version), 114 minutes
(release version). Filmed in Hollywood, October 1944–January 1945; additional scenes filmed January 21–28, 1946. First version shown to U.S. troops overseas beginning August 1945. Final version released August 23, 1946.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe), Lauren Bacall (Vivian Sternwood Rutledge), John Ridgely (Eddie Mars), Martha Vickers (Carmen Sternwood), Dorothy Malone (bookshop girl),
Peggy Knudsen (Mona Mars; Pat Clark played Mona Mars in first version), Regis Toomey (Bernie Ohls), Charles Waldron (Gen. Sternwood), Charles D. Brown (Norris, the butler), Bob Steele (Canino), Elisha Cook Jr. (Harry Jones), Louis Jean Heydt (Joe Brody), Sonia Darrin (Agnes Lowzier), Theodore von Eltz (Arthur Gwynne Geiger), Tom Rafferty (Carol Lundgren), James Flavin (Capt. Cronjager), Joseph Crehan
(medical examiner), Joy Barlowe (taxi driver), Tom Fadden (Sidney), Ben Welden (Pete), Trevor Bardette (Art Huck), Emmet Vogan (Ed, the deputy), Forbes Murray (furtive man), Pete Kooy (motorcycle cop), Carole Douglas (librarian), Jack Chefe (croupier), Paul Weber, Jack Perry, Wally Walker (Mars’s thugs), Lorraine Miller (hatcheck girl), Shelby Payne (cigarette girl), Janis Chandler, Deannie
Bert (waitresses), Marc Lawrence.
(Remade by United Artists and director Michael Winner in Britain in 1978.)
Red River
(Monterey Productions for United Artists)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Codirector: Arthur Rosson. Screenplay: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee, from Chase’s novel
The Chisholm Trail
, serialized in the
Saturday Evening Post
. Cinematographer: Russell Harlan. Editor:
Christian Nyby. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Song (“Settle Down”): Tiomkin. Art director: John Datu Arensma. Sound: Richard DeWeese. Special effects: Donald Steward. Special photographic effects: Allan Thompson. Assistant director: William McGarry. Production manager: Norman Cook. Running time: 133 minutes (subsequent voice-over version cut to 125 minutes). Filmed in Arizona, Hollywood, September–December
1946. Released September 1, 1948.
Cast: John Wayne (Tom Dunson), Montgomery Clift (Matthew Garth), Joanne Dru (Tess Millay), Walter Brennan (Groot Nadine), Coleen Gray (Fen), Harry Carey Sr. (Melville), John Ireland (Cherry Valance), Noah Beery Jr. (Buster McGee), Harry Carey Jr. (Dan Latimer), Chief Yowlachie (Quo), Paul Fix (Teeler Yacey), Hank Worden (Simms), Mickey Kuhn (Matthew, as a boy),
Ray Hyke (Walt Jergens), Hal Talliaferro (Old Leather), Ivan Parry (Bunk Kenneally), Paul Fiero (Fernandez), William Self (wounded wrangler), Dan White (Laredo), Tom Tyler (quitter), Lane Chandler (colonel), Glenn Strange (Naylor), Shelley Winters (dance-hall girl).
(Remade for television in 1988.)
A Song Is Born
(Samuel Goldwyn Productions for RKO)
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Howard
Hawks. Screenplay: No screen credit given (Harry Tugend, Phil Rapp, Daniel Fuchs, Melville Shavelson, Robert Pirosh, Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, Roland Kibbee, uncredited); from the screenplay
Ball of Fire
by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (uncredited), based on the story “From A to Z,” by Wilder and Thomas Monroe. Cinematographer (Technicolor): Gregg Toland. Editor: Daniel Mandell. Musical
directors: Emil Newman, Hugo Friedhofer. Songs (“A Song Is Born” and “Daddy-O”): words and music by Don Raye and Gene De Paul, orchestrations by Sonny Burke. Art directors: George Jenkins, Perry Ferguson. Set decorator: Julia Heron. Costume designer: Irene Sharaff. Sound: Fred Lau. Special photographic effects: John Fulton. Running time: 112 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, June– September 1947. Released
October 19, 1948.
Cast: Danny Kaye (Robert Frisbee), Virginia Mayo (Honey Swanson), Benny Goodman (Prof. Magenbruch), Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Buck and Bubbles, The Page Cavanaugh Trio, The Golden Gate Quartet, Russo and the Samba Kings (as themselves), Hugh Herbert (Prof. Twingle), Steve Cochran (Tony Crow), J. Edward Bromberg (Dr. Elfini), Felix
Bressart (Prof. Gerkikoff), Ludwig Stossel (Prof. Traumer), O. Z. Whitehead (Prof. Oddly), Esther Dale (Miss Bragg), Mary Field (Miss Totten), Howard Chamberlain (Setter), Paul Langton (Joe), Sidney Blackmer (Adams), Ben Welden (Monte), Ben Chasen (Ben), Peter Virgo (Louis), Harry Balaban (bass), Louis Bellson (drums), Alton Hendrickson (guitar).
I Was a Male War Bride
(20th Century–Fox)
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigelgass, Hagar Wilde, from the autobiographical story by Henri Rochard (Dr. Roger H. Charlier). Cinematographers: Norbert Brodine, O. H. Borradaile (and Russell Harlan uncredited). Editor: James B. Clark. Music: Cyril Mockridge. Art directors: Lyle Wheeler, Albert Hogsett. Set decorators: Thomas Little, Walter
M. Scott. Sound: George Leverett, Roger Heman. Special photographic effects: Fred Sersen. Assistant director: Arthur Jacobson. Running time: 105 minutes. Filmed in and around Heidelberg, Zuzenhausen, and Bremerhaven, West Germany, and at Shepperton Studios, England, September 1948– January 1949, also in Hollywood and San Pedro, May 1949. Released August 19, 1949.
Cast: Cary Grant (Capt. Henri
Rochard), Ann Sheridan (Lt. Catherine Gates), Marion Marshall (Kitty), Randy Stuart (Mae), William Neff (Capt. Jack Rumsey), Eugene Gericke (Tony Jowitt), Ruben Wendorf (innkeeper’s assistant), Lester Sharpe (waiter), Ken Tobey (seaman), Robert Stevenson (lieutenant), Alfred Linder (bartender), David McMahon (chaplain), Joe Haworth (shore patrol), John Whitney (Trumble), William Pullen, William Self
(sergeants), Otto Reichow, William Yetter (German policemen), André Charlot (French minister), Alex Gerry (waiter), Russ Conway (Commander Willis), Harry Lauter (lieutenant), Kay Young (Maj. Prendergast), Lillie Kenn (innkeeper’s wife), Carl Jaffe (jail officer), Martin Miller (Schindler), Paul Hardmuth (burgermeister), John Serrett (French notary), Bill Murphy (sergeant), Patricia Curts (girl
in door).
The Thing from Another World
(Winchester Productions for RKO)
Producer: Howard Hawks. Director: Christian Nyby (and Hawks, uncredited). Screenplay: Charles Lederer (and Ben Hecht, uncredited), based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr. Cinematographer: Russell Harlan. Editor: Roland Cross. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Art directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, John
J. Hughes. Set decorators: Darrell Silvera, William Stevens. Ladies’ wardrobe: Michael Woulfe. Sound: Phil Brigandi, Clem Portman. Makeup supervisor: Lee Greenway. Special effects: Donald Stewart. Special photographic effects: Linwood Dunn. Associate producer: Edward Lasker. Running time: 87 minutes. Filmed in Montana, San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, October 1950–March 1951. Released April 6, 1951.
Cast: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki), Kenneth Tobey (Capt. Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Prof. Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Skeely), James Young (Lt. Eddie Dykes), Dewey Martin (Crew Chief), Robert Nichols (Lt. Ken Erickson), William Self (Cpl. Barnes), Eduard Franz (Dr. Stern), Sally Creighton (Mrs. Chapman), James Arness (The Thing).
(Remade as
The Thing
by Universal and director John Carpenter
in 1982.)
The Big Sky
(Winchester Productions for RKO)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, from the novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. Cinematographer: Russell Harlan. Editor: Christian Nyby. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. French Lyrics: Gordon Clark. Art directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Perry Ferguson. Set decorators: Darrell Silvera, William Stevens. Costume designer:
Dorothy Jeakins. Sound: Phil Brigandi, Clem Portman. Special effects: Donald Steward. Second-unit director: Arthur Rosson. Associate producer: Edward Lasker. Assistant director: William McGarry. Unit manager: Arthur Siteman. Running time: 138 minutes (later cut to 122 minutes). Filmed in Wyoming, Hollywood, August–November 1951. Released August 6, 1952.
Cast: Kirk Douglas (Jim Deakins), Dewey
Martin (Boone Caudill), Elizabeth Threatt (Teal Eye), Arthur Hunnicutt (Zeb Calloway), Buddy Baer (Romaine), Steven Geray (Jourdonnais), Henri Letondal (Labadie), Hank Worden (Poordevil), Jim Davis (Streak), Robert Hunter (Chouquette), Booth Colman (Pascal), Paul Frees (McMasters), Frank de Cova (Moleface), Guy Wilkerson (Longface), Don Beddoe (townsman), Barbara Hawks (Indian).
Monkey Business
(20th Century–Fox)
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, I. A. L. Diamond, Charles Lederer, from a story by Harry Segall. Cinematographer: Milton Krasner. Editor: William B. Murphy. Music: Leigh Harline. Musical director: Lionel Newman. Art directors: Lyle Wheeler, George Patrick. Set decorators: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott. Wardrobe director: Charles LeMaire,
Costume designer: Travilla. Sound: W. D. Flick, Roger Heman. Special photographic effects: Ray Kellogg. Running time: 97 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, March–April 1952. Released September 5, 1952.
Cast: Cary Grant (Prof. Barnaby Fulton), Ginger Rogers (Edwina Fulton), Charles Coburn (Oliver Oxly), Marilyn Monroe (Lois Laurel), Hugh Marlowe (Harvey Entwhistle), Henri Letondal (Dr. Siegfried Kitzel),
Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Zoldeck), Larry Keating (Mr. Culverly), Douglas Spencer (Dr. Brunner), Esther Dale (Mrs. Rhinelander), George Winslow (Little Indian), Emmett Lynn (Jimmy), Jerry Sheldon (guard), Kathleen Freeman (nurse), Mary Field (clerk) Harry Carey Jr. (reporter), Joseph Mell (barber), George Eldredge (auto salesman), Heine Conklin (painter), Olan Soule (hotel clerk), Gil Stratton
Jr. (Yale man), Ruth Warren, Isabel Withers, Olive Carey (laundresses), John McKee (photographer), Faire Binney (dowager), Billy McLean (bellboy), Paul Maxey, Mack Williams (dignitaries), Marjorie Holliday (receptionist), Harry Carter, Harry Bartell, Jerry Paris (scientists), Harry Seymour (clothing store salesman), Dabbs Greer (cab driver), Russ Clark, Ray Montgomery (cops), Robert Nichols (garageman),
Forbes Murray, Roger Moore, Melinda Plowman, Terry Goodman, Ronnie Clark, Rudy Lee, Mickey Little, Brad Mora, Jimmy Roebuck, Louis Lettieri.