The Ransom of Red Chief
(The fourth episode in
O. Henry’s Full House
) (20th Century– Fox)
Producer: André Hakim. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson (and, Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, uncredited), based on the short story by O. Henry.
Cinematographer: Milton Krasner. Editor: William B. Murphy. Music: Alfred Newman. Art director: Chester Gore. Running time: 27 minutes (entire film: 117 minutes). Filmed in Hollywood, May 1952. Released September 19, 1952.
Cast: Fred Allen (Sam), Oscar Levant (Bill), Lee Aaker (J. B. Dorset), Kathleen Freeman (Mrs. Dorset), Irving Bacon (Mr. Dorset), Alfred Mizner (storekeeper), Gloria Gordon
(Ellie Mae), Robert Easton, Robert Cherry, Norman Leavitt (yokels).
(Other episodes were directed by Henry Koster, Henry Hathaway, Jean Negulesco, Henry King. Hawks’s episode was cut from the film after its initial engagement.)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(20th Century–Fox)
Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Charles Lederer, from the musical comedy by Joseph Fields
and Anita Loos, based on the novel by Loos. Cinematographer (Technicolor): Harry J. Wild. Editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Music and lyrics: Jules Styne, Leo Robin. Songs (“When Love Goes Wrong” and “Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love?”): music and lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson. Musical director: Lionel Newman. Choreographer and director of musical numbers: Jack Cole. Art directors: Lyle Wheeler,
Joseph C. Wright. Set decorator: Claude Carpenter. Wardrobe director: Charles LeMaire. Costumes: Travilla. Sound: E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman. Special photographic effects: Ray Kellog. Assistant director: Paul Helmick. Running time: 91 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, November 1952–January 1953. Released July 15, 1953.
Cast: Jane Russell (Dorothy Shaw), Marilyn Monroe (Lorelei Lee), Charles Coburn
(Sir Francis Beekman), Elliott Reid (Monroe), Tommy Noonan (Gus Esmond), George Winslow (Henry Spofford III), Marcel Dalio (magistrate), Taylor Holmes (Gus Esmond Sr.), Norma Varden (Lady Beekman), Howard Wendell (Watson), Steven Geray (hotel manager), Peter Camlin (gendarme), Henri Letondal (Grotier), Leo Mostovoy (Philippe), Alex Frazer (Pritchard), George Davis (taxi driver), Alphonse Martell
(headwaiter), George Dee, Jimmy Saung, George Charkiris (dancers), Jimmy Moultrie, Freddie Moultrie (boy dancers), Harry Carey Jr. (Winslow), Jean Del Val (ship’s captain), Ray Montgomery (Peters), Alvy Moore (Anderson), Robert Nichols (Evans), Charles Tannen (Ed), Jimmy Young (Stevens), Charles De Ravenne (purser), John Close (coach), William Cabanne (Sims), Philip Sylvestre (steward), Jack Chefe
(proprietor), John Hedloe (athlete), Alfred Paix (porter), Max Willenz (court clerk), Rolfe Sedan (waiter), Robert Foulk, Ralph Peters (passport officials), Harry Seymour (captain of waiters), Donald Moray (airport porter), Deena Dikkers (hotel clerk), Fred Stevens (stagehand), Jean De Briac, Harris Brown, A. Cameron Grant, Richard La Marr, Robert Fuller.
Land of the Pharaohs
(Continental
Company Ltd. for Warner Bros.)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom. Cinematographers (Warnercolor, CinemaScope): Lee Garmes, Russell Harlan. Supervising editor: Rudi Fehr. Editor: Vladimir Sagovsky. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Art director: Alexandre Trauner. Costumes: Mayo. Sound: Oliver S. Garretson. Special effects: Don Steward. Second-unit
director: Noël Howard. Associate producer: Arthur Siteman. Assistant director: Paul Helmick. Unit manager: Chuck Hansen. Running time: 106 minutes. Filmed in Egypt, April–May 1954, Rome, June– August 1954. Released June 24, 1955.
Cast: Jack Hawkins (Pharaoh Cheops), Joan Collins (Princess Nellifer), Dewey Martin (Senta), Alexis Minotis (Hamar), James Robertson Justice (Vashtar), Luisa Boni (Kyra),
Sydney Chaplin (Treneh), James Hayter (Mikka, Vashtar’s servant), Kerima (Queen Nailla), Piero Giagnoni (Prince Zanin), Carlo d’Angelo (overseer).
Rio Bravo
(Armada Productions for Warner Bros.)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, from a short story by B. H. McCampbell. Cinematographer (Technicolor): Russell Harlan. Editor: Folmar Blangsted.
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Original songs: music, Tiomkin; lyrics, Paul Francis Webster. Art director: Leo K. Kuter. Set decorator: Ralph S. Hurst. Costume designer: Marjorie Best. Sound: Robert B. Lee. Assistant director: Paul Helmick. Running time: 141 minutes. Filmed in Old Tucson, Hollywood, May–July 1958. Released March 18, 1959.
Cast: John Wayne (Sheriff John T. Chance), Dean Martin (Dude),
Ricky Nelson (Colorado Ryan), Angie Dickinson (Feathers), Walter Brennan (Stumpy), Ward Bond (Pat Wheeler), John Russell (Nathan Burdette), Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez (Carlos Remonte), Estelita Rodriguez (Consuelo), Claude Akins (Joe Burdette), Malcolm Atterbury (Jake), Harry Carey Jr. (Harold; part cut from film), Bob Steele (Matt Harris), Myron Healey (barfly), Fred Graham (gunman), Riley Hill (messenger),
Tom Monroe (henchman), Bob Terhune (Charlie, the bartender), Ted White (Bart), Nesdon Booth (Clark), George Bruggeman (Clem), Jose Cuchillo (Pedro), Eugene Iglesias (bystander), Joseph Shimada (Burt, the funeral director).
Hatari!
(Malabar Productions for Paramount)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Leigh Brackett, from a story by Harry Kurnitz. Cinematographer (Technicolor):
Russell Harlan. Associate photographer: Joseph Brun. Editor: Stuart Gilmore. Music: Henry Mancini. Song (“Just for Tonight”): lyrics, Johnny Mercer; music, Hoagy Carmichael. Art directors: Hal Pereira, Carl
Anderson. Set decorators: Sam Comer, Claude E. Carpenter. Costumes: Edith Head. Men’s wardrobe: Frank Beetson Jr. Sound: John Carter, Charles Grenzbach. Special photographic effects: John F.
Fulton. Special mechanical effects: Richard Parker. Associate producer and second-unit director: Paul Helmick. Assistant directors: Tom Connors, Russ Saunders, Bud Brill. Unit manager: Jim Henderling. Production manager: Don Robb. Technical adviser: Willy de Beer. Running time: 159 minutes. Filmed in Tanganyika, East Africa, November 1960–March 1961, Hollywood, March–May 1961. Released June 19,
1962.
Cast: John Wayne (Sean Mercer), Hardy Kruger (Kurt Mueller), Elsa Martinelli (Anna-Maria “Dallas” D’Alessandro), Red Buttons (Pockets), Gerard Blain (Charles “Chips” Maurey), Bruce Cabot (Indian), Michele Girardon (Brandy Delacourt), Valentin de Vargas (Luis Francisco Garcia Lopez), Eduard Franz (Dr. Sanderson), Queenie Leonard (nurse), Jon Chevron (Joseph), Emmett E. Smith (bartender),
Henry Scott (Sikh clerk), Jack Williams (native), Eric Rungren (Stan), Umbopa M’Beti (Arga), Koume Samburu (Saidi).
Man’s Favorite Sport?
(Gibraltar-Laurel Productions for Universal)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: John Fenton Murray, Steven McNeil (and, Leigh Brackett, uncredited), from the story “The Girl Who Almost Got Away,” by Pat Frank. Cinematographer (Technicolor):
Russell Harlan. Editor: Stuart Gilmore. Music: Henry Mancini. Song (“Man’s Favorite Sport”): lyrics, Johnny Mercer, music: Mancini. Art directors: Alexander Golitzen, Tambi Larsen. Set decorator: Robert Priestley. Costumes: Edith Head. Men’s wardrobe: Pete Saldutti. Sound: Waldon O. Watson, Joe Lapis. Special mechanical effects: Ben MacMahon. Special title photography: Don Ornitz. Associate producer:
Paul Helmick. Assistant director: Tom Connors Jr. Unit production manager: Terence Nelson. Running time: 120 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, December 1962–March 1963. Released February 5, 1964.
Cast: Rock Hudson (Roger Willoughby), Paula Prentiss (Abigail Page), Maria Perschy (Isolda “Easy” Mueller), John McGiver (William Cadwalader), Charlene Holt (Tex Connors), Roscoe Karns (Maj. Phipps), James
Westerfield (policeman), Norman Alden (John Screaming Eagle), Forrest Lewis (Skaggs), Regis Toomey (Bagley), Tyler McVey (Bush), Kathie Brown (Marcia), Molly Bee (singer), Paul Bryar (bartender), Bill Cassady (escort), Edy Williams (second girl), Ed Stoddard, Joan Tewksbury, Betty Hanna (people in elevator), Dianne Simpson (elevator operator), Holger Bendixen (fisherman), Joan Boston (Joan).
Red Line 7000
(Laurel Productions for Paramount)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: George Kirgo (and Steve McNeil, Leigh Brackett, uncredited), from a story by Hawks. Cinematographer (Technicolor): Milton Krasner. Editors: Stuart Gilmore, Bill Brame. Music: Nelson Riddle. Songs:
“Wildcat Jones” by Carol Connors and Buzz Cason, “Let Me Find Someone New” by Connors and Riddle.
Art directors: Hal Pereira, Arthur Lonergan. Set decorators: Sam Comer, Claude E. Carpenter. Costumes: Edith Head. Sound: John Carter, John Wilkinson. Special photographic effects: Paul K. Lerpae. Process photography: Farciot Edouart. Second-unit director: Bruce Kessler. Assistant director: Dick Moder. Unit production manager: Andrew J. Durkus. Running time: 110 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, January–
April 1965; second unit races filmed in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, California, July 1964–January 1965. Released November 9, 1965.
Cast: James Caan (Mike Marsh), Laura Devon (Julie Kazarian), Gail Hire (Holly MacGregor), Charlene Holt (Lindy Bonaparte), John Robert Crawford (Ned Arp), Marianna Hill (Gabrielle “Gaby” Queneau), James Ward (Dan McCall), Norman Alden (Pat Kazarian),
George Takei (Kato), Diane Strom (receptionist), Anthony Rogers (Jim Loomis), Carol Connors, Cissy Wellman, Beryl Hammond, Leslie Sommers (waitresses), Forrest Lewis (Jenkins), Dee Hartford (Dinah), Anne Morell (girl in café), John Gabriel (Jake), Robert Donner (Leroy), Thomas A. Stears, Craig Chudy (drivers), Joel Allen (rector), Jerry Lewis (driver).
El Dorado
(Laurel Productions for Paramount)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Leigh Brackett, from the novel
The Stars in Their Courses
by Harry Brown. Cinematographer (Technicolor): Harold Rosson. Editor: John Woodcock. Music: Nelson Riddle. Song (“El Dorado”): lyrics, John Gabriel, music, Riddle, sung by George Alexander, accompanied by the Mellomen. Art directors: Hal Pereira, Carl Anderson. Set decorators: Robert Benton,
Ray Moyer. Costumes: Edith Head. Sound: John Carter, Charles Grenzbach. Original paintings: Olaf Wieghorst. Special photographic effects: Paul K. Lerpae. Process photography: Farciot Edouart. Associate producer: Paul Helmick. Assistant director: Andrew J. Durkus. Unit production manager: John Coonan. Running time: 126 minutes. Filmed in Old Tucson, Hollywood, October 1965–January 1966. Released
in Japan December 17, 1966; in the United States June 9, 1967.
Cast: John Wayne (Cole Thornton), Robert Mitchem (J. P. Harrah), James Caan (Alan Bourdillon “Mississippi” Traherne), Charlene Holt (Maudie), Paul Fix (Doc Miller), Arthur Hunnicutt (Bill Harris), Michele Carey (Joey MacDonald), R. G. Armstrong (Kevin MacDonald), Edward Asner (Bart Jason), Christopher George (Nelse McLeod), Marina
Ghane (Maria), John Gabriel (Pedro), Robert Rothwell (Saul MacDonald), Robert Donner (Milt), Anthony Rogers (Dr. Donovan), Victoria George (Jared’s wife), Jim Davis (Jason’s foreman), Anne Newman (Saul’s wife), Diane Strom (Matt’s wife), Johnny Crawford (Luke MacDonald), Adam Roarke (Matt MacDonald), Charles Courtney (Jared MacDonald), Olaf Wieghorst (Swedish gunsmith).
Rio Lobo
(Malabar
Productions and Cinema Center Films for National General)
Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett, from a story by Wohl. Cinematographer (Technicolor): William Clothier. Editor: John Woodcock. Music: Jerry Goldsmith. Production designer: Robert Smith. Set decorator: William Kiernan. Costume designer: Leah Rhodes. Men’s costumer: Ted Parvin. Women’s Costumer:
Patricia Norris. Sound: John Carter. Special effects: A. D. Flowers, Clifford P. Wenger. Technical adviser (train sequence): William Byrne. Title designer and director: Don Record. Associate producer: Paul Helmick. Second-unit director: Yakima Canutt. Assistant director: Mike Moder. Unit production manager: Robert M. Beche. Running time: 114 minutes. Filmed in Cuernavaca, Mexico; Old Tucson; Nogales;
Hollywood, March–June 1970. Released December 18, 1970.
Cast: John Wayne (Capt. Cord McNally), Jorge Rivero (Lt. Pierre Cordona), Jennifer O’Neill (Shasta), Jack Elam (Phillips), Chris Mitchum (Tuscarora), Victor French (Ketcham), Susana Dosamantes (Maria Carmen), Sherry Lansing (Amelita), David Huddleston (Dr. Jones), Mike Henry (Sheriff Hendricks), Bill Williams (Sheriff Cronin), Jim Davis
(Riley), Dean Smith (Bitey), Robert Donner (Whitey), George Plimpton, Robert Rothwell, Chuck Courtney (Whitey’s henchmen), Edward Faulkner (Lt. Harris), Peter Jason (Lt. Forsythe).
Hawks appeared in the following documentary films devoted to his work:
Howard Hawks: The Great Professional
(BBC-TV)
Producer: Barrie Gavin. Director, writer, and narrator: Nicholas Garnham. Director (of Hawks
interview) and interviewer: Peter Bogdanovich. Editor: Howard Billingham. Running time: 60 minutes. First broadcast: July 10. Segment of the BBC-TV series
The Movies
.
Plimpton! Shoot-out at Rio Lobo
(David L. Wolper Productions for ABC-TV)
Producer and director: William Kronick. Executive producer: David L. Wolper. Writers: George Plimpton, Kronick. Cinematographers: Michael Margulies,
Jules Brenner. Editor: Robert K. Lambert. Music: Walter Scharf. Running time: 52 minutes. First broadcast: December 9.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
(WNET/13, New York, for the Public Broadcasting Service)
Producer, director, writer, and interviewer: Richard Schickel. Cinematographers: John A. Morrill, Erik Daarstad. Editor: Geof Bartz. Narrator: Cliff Robertson. Running time:
58 minutes. First broadcast: November 18.
Ein Verdammt Gutes Leben
(
A Hell of a Good Life
) (Sunset Mark Productions, Munich, in association with Bayerischer Rudfunk, Munich)