Howard Hawks
1) Ball of Fire
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
Series
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
4) True grit
Series
Formats
Description
In "True Grit," U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party. In "Rio Lobo," a spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[c2005], c1967
Description
In "The sons of Katie Elder," the day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. In "El Dorado," a sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.
7) El Dorado
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 9
Description
Robert Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the Wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked “businessmen.”
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
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Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
9) Red River
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997][1998]
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
11) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?
13) His girl Friday
Series
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Two showgirls set sail on a luxury liner bound for France. Hijinks on the high seas ensue as they discover they're being tailed by a detective hired by the father of Lorelei's boyfriend. By the time the ship reaches Paris, a missing diamond tiara lands the girls in hot water, but by following their hearts, they'll get out of trouble and on to the altar.
16) Rio Bravo
Series
Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns...
17) Sergeant York
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
19) Monkey business
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Formats
Description
A chemist discovers a potent rejuvenation drug that restores youth but with some hilarious results.