Air Force 1943  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, George Tobias, James Brown, Moroni Olsen, Faye Emerson
Use of newsreel footage from World War II is effectively utilized to tell the story of a B-17 Flying Fortress crew as it prepares for battle in the Pacific Theater. This film won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Special Effects.
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Ball of Fire 1941   N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Richard Haydn, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Tully Marshall, Elisha Cook Jr., Leonid Kinskey, Dan Duryea, Aubrey Mather, Ralph Peters, Mary Field
Burlesque dancer Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck) moves into the home of seven professors, led by Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), who are writing the "Encyclopedia of Slang." Comedy abounds when the professors learn slang first hand from their new resident and her gangster cohorts. Barbara Stanwyck received an Oscar nomination. 1 User Review
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| | One of my favorite comedies | 1fatts 03/26/2007 | This comedy, famously modelled on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs places the great Barbara Stanwyck doing the "heart of gold tramp" in the middle of seven ivory tower professors living a monastic life, dedicating themselves to the writing of a new encyclopedia. (You remember written encycolopedias; you used to be able to find them in libraries near the microfiche.)
The professors are a splendid gathering of the best of the character actors of the time: "Cuddles" Sakall, Henry Travers, Hichard Haydn and on and on. Their leader and chief egghead is Gary Cooper playing wonderfully against type. (He did this in a great comic western once: See "Along Came Jones" when it comes along.) The result is funny and charming; and, yes, we really are touched by the innocence of long ago and far away.
For those who don't know the work of the young Barbara Stanwyck, this is a good one to serve as introduction. She really is a ball of fire. |
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Barbary Coast 1935 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy, Donald Meek, Harry Carey, David Niven, Matt McHugh
Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, this is the story of Mary Rutledge's (Miriam Hopkins) life as a saloon queen and her search for an honest love.
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The Big Sky 1952  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt, Buddy Baer, Steven Geray, Henri Letondal, Jim Davis, Frank DeKova, Don Beddoe
Kentucky mountain trappers Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and Boone (Dewey Martin) join Boone's Uncle Jeb (Arthur Hunnicutt) on a journey up the Missouri River to convince the Blackfoot Indians of their good intentions. They are returning a kidnapped Blackfoot princess to her people as proof of their good will. On the trip home, love develops between Boone and the princess. 1 User Review
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| | Outstanding Howard Hawks' outdoor adventure | Anonymous 01/18/2007 | | |
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 The Big Sleep 1946  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Elisha Cook Jr., Bob Steele, Louis Jean Heydt, Ben Welden, Peggy Knudsen, Charles Waldron, Charles D. Brown, Trevor Bardette, Joseph Crehan
Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate the activities of his daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). At first, Carmen's sister, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), resents Marlowe, but love does enter the picture. Meanwhile, as Marlowe probes into Carmen's activities, the plot thickens, and murders ensue.
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 Bringing Up Baby 1938 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly, Leona Roberts, Ward Bond, Jack Carson
This is the movie classic in which Katharine Hepburn plays socialite Susan Vance who is raising a pet leopard, "Baby." Cary Grant takes on the role of a perfect foil as paleontologist David Huxley who is already engaged to be married to Miss Swallow (Virginia Walker), but he finds himself joining Susan in a hunt for the missing "Baby" and a priceless dinosaur bone–and, along the way, falling in love with Susan. A classy, hilarious comedy that remains timeless.
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Ceiling Zero 1935 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, James Bush, Henry Wadsworth, Barton MacLane, Bill Elliott, Isabel Jewell, Addison Richards
Howard Hawks spotlights pilots battling fog and poor communications to deliver the mail. Dizzy Davis (James Cagney) must atone for past mistakes in this action-oriented movie. One of the best of the Cagney-Pat O'Brien team-ups. Remade as "International Squadron" in 1941.
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Come and Get It 1936 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Roaring Timbers
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, William Wyler
Cast: Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Joel McCrea, Frank Shields, Andrea Leeds, Mary Nash, Clem Bevans, Edwin Maxwell, Cecil Cunningham
Walter Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this film that was based on Edna Ferber's novel. The story begins with two loggers (Edward Arnold and Brennan) and follows their lives and conflicts.
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The Criminal Code 1931  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Mary Doran, Boris Karloff, DeWitt Jennings, John Sheehan, Otto Hoffman, Arthur Hoyt, Paul Porcasi
An innocent man (Phillips Holmes) is jailed, and the warden (Walter Huston) is faced with problems when his own daughter falls in love with his prisoner. This film was remade as "Convicted" in 1950, while film footage is used in 1968's "Targets."
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 The Dawn Patrol 1930 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Flight Commander
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, William Janney, James Finlayson, Clyde Cook, Edmund Breon, Frank McHugh
British World War I aviators are enthralled with the romance of their missions. However, as talk turns into reality, the danger loses its romantic quality. In Director Howard Hawks' first talkie, he presents some dramatic aerial scenes. John Monk Saunders won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Story).
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 El Dorado 1966 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Jim Davis, Michele Carey, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford
John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in the same film makes for one very good Western. Hired gunman Cole Thornton (Wayne) comes to the aid of his alcoholic friend, J.B. Harrah (Mitchum), who is embroiled in a land war between the evil Bart Jason (Ed Asner) and Kevin MacDonald (R.G. Armstrong). Follow-up to "Rio Bravo."
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 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Noonan, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, George Winslow, Marcel Dalio, Taylor Holmes, Harry Carey Jr., Norma Varden
Marilyn Monroe's and Jane Russell's rendition of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" highlight this musical comedy about Lorelei Lee's trip to Paris to meet her future rich husband.
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Hatari! 1962 N/R, 159 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gerard Blain, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, Eduard Franz, Michele Girardon, Queenie Leonard, Major Sam Harris
African adventures abound as zoo hunters on safari in Africa encounter beauty and danger on the Dark Continent as they seek new animals for America's zoos.
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 His Girl Friday 1940 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex, Frank Jenks, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen
Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) pulls out all stops to prevent the marriage of his star reporter–and ex-wife–Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Walter convinces Hildy to cover one last story about the execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen). When Williams escapes, with help from Walter and Hildy he hides in the prison press room. Hildy is set to write her big story, while Walter uses their time together to woo her back. A Grant classic, along with great cast and script. 1 User Review
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| | Verbal Comedy Doesn't Get Better Than This | 1fatts 07/23/2007 | Menjou and O'Brian did it in '31. Mathau and Lemmon in '74. Robert Ryan and George Grizzard did it on TV in 1970. And somebody even did it once somewhere as a musical. But this is the one. This one: 1940 with Cary Grant and Roz Russell.
A fast-paced play by McArthur and Hecht called "The Front Page" got kicked up several notches when someone decided to turn Hildy Johnson, the bitter, frustrated reporter looking for an escape from the newspaper game into a normal life, into a woman, ex-wife of fast-talking, vicious-but-lovable editor Walter Burns. Cary Grant as burns was never faster or funnier, but his pairing with Roz Russell as Hildy is nothing short of magic. The dialogue zings along, and every second line is a zinger.
But there is more to this than the very real verbal jousting. There is a glimpse into the world of newspapers which is illuminating and more than a little frightening. Anything for the story; it is never about fact, but about the lead, the scoop. Russell's scene with John Qualen's Earl Williams is sharp and tough and cold. The scenes with the veterans in the jailhouse newsroom captures an earlier time and speech pattern, but, one suspects, it has more to say about what media news is really about than All the President's Men could every have hoped to show.
There is an edge to the script that raises it about great comedy into something more important than that.
One of the best things Howard Hawks ever did. Not to be missed. |
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I Was a Male War Bride 1949 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Gene Garrick, Randy Stuart, Kenneth Tobey, Bill Neff, Harry Lauter, John Whitney, Martin Miller
After World War II, French Captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) poses as a WAC so that he can immigrate to the United States and be with his American bride (Ann Sheridan).
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Land of the Pharaohs 1955 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis, Sydney Chaplin, James Robertson Justice, James Hayter, Piero Giagnoni, Luisella Boni, Carlo D'Angelo, Robert Rietty
William Faulkner co-wrote the script for this haunting story about the rich Pharaoh (Jack Hawkins). He marries the beautiful Nellifer (Joan Collins) who arranges his death to inherit the kingdom. But, Nellifer is not aware of the fact that, according to custom, his wife will be entombed with the Pharaoh's body.
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Man's Favorite Sport? 1964  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt, Roscoe Karns, Forrest Lewis, Regis Toomey, James Westerfield, Norman Alden, Tyler McVey, Kathie Browne
Star fishing-gear salesman Roger (Rock Hudson) knows nothing about fishing. When publicity director Abigail (Paula Prentiss) talks Roger's boss into entering Roger in a fishing tournament, he wins–with help from a bear– and his troubles begin.
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 Monkey Business 1952 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating, Harry Carey Jr., Douglas Spencer
Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) is a chemist-genius who has been working on a formula to prevent aging. A monkey accidentally mixes the correct proportions into the elixir, which ends up in the Fulton's drinking water. After Barnaby and his wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers), start drinking the tainted water, they revert to childhood.
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O. Henry's Full House 1952 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco
Cast: Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Dale Robertson, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Fred Allen, Oscar Levant, Jeanne Crain
John Steinbeck narrated this film consisting of five of O. Henry's classic short stories: "The Clarion Call," "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Gift of the Magi," The Cop and the Anthem," and "The Last Leaf."
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Only Angels Have Wings 1939 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Noah Beery Jr., Sig Ruman, Allyn Joslyn, Don "Red" Barry, Victor Kilian
This is the story of American pilots delivering mail in South America. They encounter danger as well as love while sharing loyalty to each other and their missions.
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 Red Line 7000 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt, John Robert Crawford, Marianna Hill, James Ward, Norman Alden, George Takei, Robert Donner
Excellent racing scenes help the excitement of this film about romance and tragedy encountered in auto racing.
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Red River 1948 N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Carey, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Chief Yowlachie, Hank Worden, Mickey Kuhn, Hal Taliaferro, Shelley Winters
A cattle baron, Tom Dunson (John Wayne), has built up a huge estate, but trouble brews when his adoptive son Matt (Montgomery Clift)–who Tom had rescued as a boy (Mickey Kuhn) from an Indian raid–is not quite ready to put up with the hardships involved in moving cattle to the railroad in Abilene. Matt has just returned from the Civil War and stampedes and pressures of the cattle drive on a difficult route cause tension for Matt, and he is driven to the point of confrontation with his father. One of the best Westerns of the 1940s.
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 Rio Bravo 1959 N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Western / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, John Russell, Ricky Nelson, Claude Akins, Bob Steele, Myron Healey, Estelita Rodriguez, Malcolm Atterbury, Yakima Canutt, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Bing Russell
Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) sits with his cohorts Dude, Stumpy, and Colorado Ryan (Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, and Ricky Nelson) while holding killer Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) in his jail and waits for the Marshal to come for him. Problems develop when Joe's brother Nathan (John Russell) sends in help for a jail escape. Followed by "El Dorado."
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 Rio Lobo 1970 G, 114 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Wayne, Jack Elam, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French, Mike Henry, David Huddleston, Bill Williams, Edward Faulkner
In this light-hearted Western, John Wayne plays a Union colonel with problems getting gold shipments to their proper destinations; it seems that Confederate guerillas are in need of the loot and are helping themselves. As usual, Jack Elam is great. This was Howard Hawks' final film.
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The Road to Glory 1936 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang, Gregory Ratoff, Victor Kilian, Paul Stanton, John Qualen, Paul Fix, Julius Tannen
During World War I, a French regiment under the command of Captain La Roche (Warner Baxter) is in the midst of trench warfare, giving and taking one foot at a time. The heavy-drinking captain is in a love triangle involving his lieutenant (Fredric March) and a nurse (June Lang) when along comes his father (Lionel Barrymore), the oldest private, to join the regiment as a replacement. Based on a French film and co-written by William Faulkner.
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 Scarface 1932 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Tully Marshall, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Vince Barnett, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, Purnell Pratt, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta
Paul Muni is excellent as Roaring Twenties' gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte in this film modeled after Al Capone's criminal activities in the world of bootleg gin as he fights to overtake the other mobster leaders in the city
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Sergeant York 1941 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly, Noah Beery Jr., Ward Bond, Elisha Cook Jr., Frank Faylen
Gary Cooper won the Oscar for his portrayal of Sergeant York in this film based on a true story of York's single-handed killing of 25 and capture of 132 Germans during one day of battle. In addition to one other Oscar (Film Editing), nine nominations were received, including Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Walter Brennan), Supporting Actress (Margaret Wycherly), and Director.
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A Song Is Born 1948 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, Felix Bressart, Louis Armstrong, Esther Dale, J. Edward Bromberg, Ludwig Stossel, Ford Washington Lee, John William Sublett, O.Z. Whitehead, Ben Weldon, Mary Field
In this remake of "Ball of Fire," musicologist Professor Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye) heads a team of professors studying the history of jazz. While they do research, gangster Tony Crow's (Steve Cochran) moll, Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo), decides that the house where the team of professors are living would make a great place to hide while police search for her to testify at Tony's trial. Honey introduces the professors to popular music, and a good time is had by all–until Tony spoils the party. Lots of Big Band greats are featured and certainly add to the entertainment value of this film. 1 User Review
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| | mllagers 03/14/2007 | | It's great. Great historical value. |
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Tiger Shark 1932 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett, William Ricciardi, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta, Inez Palange
Mike (Edward G. Robinson) is a tuna fisherman who married Quita (Zita Johann) out of pity for her than love. Her father, who was a friend of Mike, was lost at sea. During that same tragedy, Mike saved his best friend, Pipes (Richard Arlen)–and lost a hand to a shark in the process. Now, it appears that Pipes and Quita are attracted to each other. Good acting and directing result in an excellent film.
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 To Have and Have Not 1944 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Dolores Moran, Sheldon Leonard, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Eugene Borden
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) becomes involved in World War II when he reluctantly aids the French Resistance. In the process, he meets Marie (Lauren Bacall) who helps him in his mission against the Nazis. Based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, this is Lauren Bacall's film debut.
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Today We Live 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Roscoe Karns, Robert Young, Louise Closser Hale, Rollo Lloyd, Hilda Vaughn, C. Montague Shaw, Frank Marlowe
Set during World War I, this story is about three soldiers (Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Robert Young), their mutual interest in the beautiful Diana (Joan Crawford), and how their lives change through the effect of battle.
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Twentieth Century 1934 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Ralph Forbes, Etienne Girardot, Dale Fuller, Herman Bing, James P. Burtis, Edgar Kennedy
The title of this film refers to the name of a New York to California passenger train that forms the centerpiece for this funny story about a movie producer (John Barrymore) and a fledgling star (Carole Lombard) who is trying to fly out of the nest.
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| 1. Air Force (1943)
2. Ball of Fire (1941)
3. Barbary Coast (1935)
4. The Big Sky (1952)
5. The Big Sleep (1946)
6. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
7. Ceiling Zero (1935)
8. Come and Get It (1936)
aka: Roaring Timbers
9. The Criminal Code (1931)
10. The Crowd Roars (1932)
11. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
aka: Flight Commander
12. El Dorado (1966)
13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
14. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
15. Hatari! (1962)
16. His Girl Friday (1940)
17. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
18. Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
19. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
20. Monkey Business (1952)
21. O. Henry's Full House (1952)
22. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
23. Red Line 7000 (1965)
24. Red River (1948)
25. Rio Bravo (1959)
26. Rio Lobo (1970)
27. The Road to Glory (1936)
28. Scarface (1932)
aka: Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
29. Sergeant York (1941)
30. A Song Is Born (1948)
31. Tiger Shark (1932)
32. To Have and Have Not (1944)
33. Today We Live (1933)
34. Twentieth Century (1934)
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