Tag: Howard Hawks

Red River Script

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Year:1948
Director:Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Written by:Borden Chase (Screenplay), Charles Schnee (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
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I Was A Male War Bride Script

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Year:1949
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Leonard Spigelgass (Screenplay), Hagar Wilde (Screenplay), Henri Rochard (Story)

Script Synopsis:Captain Henri Rochard is a French officer assigned to work with Lieut. Catherine Gates. Through a wacky series of misadventures, they fall in love and marry. When the war ends, Capt. Rochard tries to return to America with the other female war brides. Zany gender-confusing antics follow.
I Was A Male War Bride Script Resources:

  • I Was A Male War Bride Script PDF - 2/4/49 SHOOTING FINAL at Script City ($)
  • I Was A Male War Bride Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • I Was A Male War Bride Transcript at scripts.com

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  • I Was A Male War Bride ( tt0041498 ) at IMDb
  • I Was A Male War Bride ( 23567 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Script

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Year:1953
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Anita Loos (Novel), Joseph Fields (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( tt0045810 ) at IMDb
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 759 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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El Dorado Script

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Year:1966
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Harry Brown (Novel), Leigh Brackett (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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The Big Sky

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Year:1952
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:A.B. Guthrie Jr. (Novel), Dudley Nichols (Screenplay), Ray Buffum (Adaptation), DeVallon Scott (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:Kirk Douglas stars as the determined leader of a band of Tennessee fur trappers who set out to explore the uncharted Missouri river in 1830 and find them selves battling American Indians.
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Rio Bravo

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Year:1959
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:B.H. McCampbell (Author), Jules Furthman (Screenplay), Leigh Brackett (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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

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Year:1939
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Howard Hawks (Story), Jules Furthman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
Only Angels Have Wings Script Resources:

  • Only Angels Have Wings Script PDF - Undated continuity at The Daily Script
  • Only Angels Have Wings Script PDF - [Continuity][miss pg 86] [Sale copy, no PDF] at Script Fly ($)
  • Only Angels Have Wings Script PDF - (XL). NO DRAFT DATE. *pg. at Script City ($)

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  • Only Angels Have Wings ( tt0031762 ) at IMDb
  • Only Angels Have Wings ( 43832 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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His Girl Friday

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Year:1940
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Ben Hecht (Theatre Play), Charles MacArthur (Theatre Play), Charles Lederer (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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

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Year:1951
Director:Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby
Written by:Howard Hawks (Screenplay), Charles Lederer (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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 Thing From Another World ( tt0044121 ) at IMDb
  • The Thing From Another World ( 10785 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Big Sleep

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Year:1946
Director:Howard Hawks
Written by:Raymond Chandler (Novel), William Faulkner (Screenplay), Leigh Brackett (Screenplay), Jules Furthman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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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