Films with: Hawks, Howard

Air Force

The Flying Fortress Mary-Ann and its crew leave San Francisco for Honolulu on a routine training flight the day before Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, the crew mans the Mary-Ann through action at Wake Island, the Philippines, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Australia. The B-17 seen in many of the scenes would later be lost in action with its crew over the Pacific.

DVD 12586

Ball of fire

When a serious-minded professor and his high brow colleagues begin work on a new encyclopedia, he enlists the aid of a beautiful but shady night club queen to explain slang, unaware that she is on the run from the mob.

DVD 83

Barbary Coast

A ruthless gambling boss cannot win the love of the girl he made into a star attraction in his California saloon during the Gold Rush.

DVD 12591

Big sleep

L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.

DVD 372

Bringing up Baby

An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.

DVD 5271

Edna Ferber's Come and get it!

Lumberman Barney Glasgow abandons saloon girl Lotta to marry a timber heiress only to fall for Lotta's beautiful daughter twenty years later. But this time, Barney has a rival for the young woman's love : his own son.--Container.

DVD 12592

El Dorado

A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.

DVD 185

Ernest Hemingway's To have and have not

In 1940, an American charter boat captain in Martinique gets involved with a young female drifter and some French freedom fighters who are trying to elude local Nazi collaborators.

DVD 8531

Gentlemen prefer blondes

Bachelorette showgirl singers Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee are sailing to Paris, courtesy of Lorelei's millionaire boyfriend Gus Esmond, Jr. They're also being shadowed--thanks to Gus Sr.--by private detective Ernie Malone. Lorelei gets embroiled in a contretemps involving Sir Francis "Piggy" Beekman, outspoken Lady Beekman, and a tiara. Dorothy, meanwhile, becomes involved in a running flirtation with the detective. All's well that ends well, but everything plays second fiddle to the snazzy costumes and in-your-face attitudes sported by the showgirls. One of Howard Hawks' biggest commercial hits, this lush, garish, cynical, yet fun-filled fortune-hunter satire is based on a 1949 Broadway musical and has a wisp of a plot, serving merely to tie together the lavish musical numbers.

DVD 12582

Hatari!

John Wayne heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa who capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions.

DVD 10087

His girl Friday

His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page. Cary Grant on film: A biography of the career of Cary Grant, with selections of scenes from his movies highlighting his career.

DVD 248

Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo

A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.

DVD 1520

Land of the pharaohs

The Great Pharaoh orders architect Vashtar to build him the highest pyramid in the world as his tomb. 15 years have passed and his treasury is dwindling, so he marries Princess Nellifer, but she is as ruthless as she is beautiful.

DVD 12583

Only angels have wings

Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930's. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.

DVD 445

Red line 7000

Meet the speed breed, the young daredevils of the racing world who battle sudden death for forever glory.

DVD 12585

Red River

With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.

DVD 483

Scarface

"An exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the prohibition era. This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow."--Container.

DVD 302

Sergeant York

Torn between religious pacifism and patriotism, farmboy Alvin York of Tennessee went on to become World War I's most acclaimed American hero, capturing 132 German soldiers during the Battle of Argonne.

DVD 12581

Song is born

DVD 6635

Twentieth century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

DVD 12584