Rio Bravo (1959), His Girl Friday (1940), The Big Sleep (1946), To Have and Have Not (1944), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Ball of Fire (1941), Scarface (1932), Red River (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Howard Hawks movies.
Storyline: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, classic, american film, black and white, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, farce, marriage, misunderstanding, scientist, chaos, prank ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to fall for her.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, jazz, golden age hollywood, remake, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bent on unearthing the cynical traitor who sold information to the enemy and caused the death of a dear brother-in-arms, the battle-tested former Union cavalry officer, Colonel Cord McNally, teams up with a pair of ex-Confederates after the Civil War. Now, as honest friends, the three companions ride into Rio Lobo--a dusty town in the middle of the desert overcome by corruption--to bring to justice the one who sold McNally out; however, the town is rife with the betrayer's murderous cut-throats. Can McNally avenge his bosom buddy and clean up Rio Lobo?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: western, action, adventure, american civil war, revenge, gold, mexico ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: drama, action, adventure, aviation, romance, comedy, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end, he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), an architect whose people are enslaved in Egypt. The deal: build a robbery-proof tomb and the enslaved people will be freed. During the years that the pyramid is being built, Cyprian Princess Nellifer (Dame Joan Collins) becomes the Pharaoh's second wife, and she plots to prevent Khufu from taking his treasure with him when he dies, as well as helping him make the journey early.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: epic, historical, construction, power struggle, 1950s, hollywood, big budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An all-talk tackle salesman (Rock Hudson) is forced by a PR woman (Paula Prentiss) to fish in a tournament.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, fishing, 1960s, sports, competition, disguise ...
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