Howard Hawks mastered more genres than any other great director, and invented more than one, inclueding the gangster film in this great Paul Muni vehicle.

Not one of Hawks's better films, this post-Gold Rush San Francisco period piece is nonetheless interesting for its great cast.

A box office failure at the time, this is now regarded as one of the greatest comedies in history. Katherine Hepburn was never better, while Cary Grant was magnificently discombobulated throughout.

No film in interested features more or better talking than this. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shoot words at a machine gun pace in this great comic remake of THE FRONT PAGE.

Barbara Stanwyck is wonderful as Sugarpuss O'Shea, a gangster moll academic Gary Cooper falls in love with in this comic remake of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. Fine script by Billy Wilder.

All agree that this movie is as confusing as they get, but Bogart nails Philip Marlowe, and the film is filled with typical great Hawks dialogue. Faulkner worked on the screenplay.

An odd musical remake of BALL OF FIRE, this is nonetheless entertaining for Danny Kaye at his chaotic finest.

Hawks creates a new genre: the modern Sci-fi film. Director Christian Nyby insisted that Hawks, though uncredited on the film, was the creative force in the film.

Stars Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, but the highpoint was Charles Coburn telling secretary Marilyn Monroe, "Get someone to type this," and after she leave to Grant, "Anyone can type."

Hawks made few bad films, but this clunker set in ancient Egypt is an exception.

Entertaining, but by this point is is pretty clear that Hawks was beginning to fall off his game. Great actual shots of the actors capturing animals with virtually no stunt doubles.

More or less a remake of RIO BRAVO, Hawks at this point was merely recycling his earlier work. Still, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum together was a good thing indeed.

A recent and decent biography that doesn't bother to hide the fact that Hawks, while an undoubted genius, was one of Hollywood's biggest jerks.