1946
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.)
1948
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).
1949
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).
1951
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.)
1952
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 Augu
st 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.
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.)
1953
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.
1955
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).
1959
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).
1962
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 (Kur
t 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).
1964
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).
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