Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood

by Todd McCarthy

  38 The Last Roundup

  Sources for this chapter include the author’s interviews with George Kirgo, Sherry Lansing, Sondra Currie, John Woodcock, Pierre Schoendorffer, Chance de Widstedt, Paul Helmick, Pierre Rissient, Bertrand Tavernier, Peter Bogdanovich, William Clothier, Peter Jason, Robert Donner; Paramount Pictures files; “Entretien avec Howard Hawks,” by Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Narboni, and Bertrand Tavernier, Cahiers du Cinéma, July-August 1967; “Journey into Light” (interview with Bertrand Tavernier), by Patrick McGilligan, Film Comment, March-April 1992; the Leigh Brackett Collection at Eastern New Mexico University; Variety; “The Gray Fox Is Back at It,” by Wayne Warga, Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1970; Surviving Myself, by Jennifer O’Neill; Plimpton! Shoot-out at Rio Lobo, ABC-TV special broadcast December 9, 1970.

  39 From Sand to Dust

  Sources for this chapter include the author’s interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Chance de Widstedt, William Friedkin, George Kirgo, Lauren Bacall, Clint Eastwood, Pierre Schoendorffer, Sondra Currie, Tom Luddy, Robin Mencken, Angie Dickinson, Paul Helmick, Charles Flynn, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Pierre Rissient, Bertrand Tavernier, Barbara Hawks McCampbell, Cissy Wellman. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968, by Andrew Sarris; unpublished Hawks interview by Glenn Lovell, December 6, 1975; “Journey into Light” (interview with Bertrand Tavernier), by Patrick McGilligan, Film Comment; The Men Who Made the Movies, by Richard Schickel; “Hawks on Film, Politics, and Childrearing,” interview with Hawks by Constance Penley, Saunie Salyer, and Michael Shedlin, Jump Cut, January-February 1975; “Hawks Isn’t Good Enough,” by Raymond Durgnat, Film Comment, March-April 1978; “Hawks vs. Durgnat,” by William Paul, Film Comment, January-February 1978; “Durgnat vs. Paul: Last Round in the Great Hawks Debate” by Durgnat, Film Comment, July-August 1978; “Hawks,” by Joseph McBride, Film Comment, March-April 1978; “Director’s Life Saved by His Dog,” by Lynn Burns, Desert Sun, December 14, 1977; “Hollywood Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” by Robert Parrish; obituaries in world newspapers, December 26 and 27.

  40 Posterity

  Sources for this chapter include the author’s interviews with Barbara Hawks McCampbell, David Hawks, Michael Powell, Max Bercutt, Clint Eastwood, James D’Arc; The New Hollywood: What the Movies Did with the New Freedoms of the Seventies, by James Bernardoni; John Carpenter interview, DGA Magazine, July-August 1966; “‘There’s Something Deeply Moving About Ordinary Life,’” interview with Robert Benton by Christian Keathley, Film Comment, January–February 1995. Quentin Tarantino comments are from an interview by Lynn Hirschberg, Vanity Fair, July 1995, an interview in the Village Voice by Lisa Kennedy, October 25, 1994, and Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool, by Jeff Dawson, New York, Applause Books, 1995.

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