Tag: Howard Hawks

Monkey Business (1952) Script

Script by:I. A. L. Diamond (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Harry Segall (Story)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1952
IMDb:tt0044916

Plot:Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Ceiling Zero Script

Script by:Frank Wead (Screenplay), Frank Wead (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1936
IMDb:tt0026191

Plot:War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
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Rio Bravo Script

Script by:B.H. McCampbell (Author), Jules Furthman (Screenplay), Leigh Brackett (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1959
IMDb:tt0053221

Plot:The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies - a disgraced drunk and a cantankerous old cripple - must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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Only Angels Have Wings Script

Script by:Howard Hawks (Story), Jules Furthman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0031762

Plot:Geoff Carter is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator who arrives with his wife, Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile, traveler Bonnie Lee tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter.
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His Girl Friday Script

Script by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1940
IMDb:tt0032599

Plot:Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.
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The Thing From Another World Script

Script by:Howard Hawks (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby
Year:1951
IMDb:tt0044121

Plot:Scientists and U.S. Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
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The Big Sleep Script

Script by:Raymond Chandler (Novel), William Faulkner (Screenplay), Leigh Brackett (Screenplay), Jules Furthman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Howard Hawks
Year:1946
IMDb:tt0038355

Plot:Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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