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A HELL OF A GOOD LIFE

19 CHAPTERS FROM THE MEMORIES OF A STORYTELLER

A FILM BY

Palm Springs, California, November 1977.

Five days with Howard Hawks,

the man who between 1926 and 1970 shot 40 films

and was one of the best directors in American cinema.

He shot westerns like Red River and Rio Bravo,

comedies like Bringing Up Baby and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,

adventures like To Have and Have Not and Hatari!,

dark gangster and crime films such as Scarface and The Big Sleep.

He contributed masterpieces to almost every genre of classic Hollywood cinema.

He led actors like John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Cary Grant

to the high points of their careers.

THE EARLY YEARS

THE STORYTELLER

THE RACE

On any Sunday, the 81-year-old drives three hours through the desert

to the auto races at Willow Springs

to watch his son, Greg, practice.

In the 1920s, Hawks himself drove in races.

The Hawks films The Crowd Roars and Red Line 7000 deal with auto racing.

The Crowd Roars was made in 1932 with James Cagney in the lead role.

THE STORYTELLER

FRIENDSHIP

In 1941, Hawks shot the war film Sergeant York with Gary Cooper.

It was the story of a pacifist farmer who becomes a celebrated soldier.

Jesse Lasky, the producer of the film, was an old friend of the director.

THREE FRIENDS

Hawks made three films with Gary Cooper.

Hawks and John Ford, 1966.

With John Wayne, Hawks filmed four westerns —

Red River, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Rio Lobo and the big-game hunting film Hatari!

THE STORYTELLER

THE SIMPLE LIFE

STYLE

THE RACE

THE STORYTELLER

SPEED

FLYING

Hawks learned to fly in 1917 as a soldier.

A flight with his friend Howard Hughes.

On the theme of flying, Hawks made The Air Circus, The Dawn Patrol,

Ceiling Zero, Only Angels Have Wings

and, finally, in 1943, Air Force, the story of a B-17 crew in the Pacific.

WOMEN

With Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Hawks shot two films.

Lauren Bacall was discovered by Hawks.

Together with Bogart, she made To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep.

THE STORYTELLER

The glamorous Carole Lombard had her first hit in 1934 with Hawks directing.

Carole Lombard and John Barrymore in Twentieth Century.

ACTORS

In Red River, John Wayne plays the rancher, Tom Dunson.

With his favorite actor, Cary Grant,

Hawks filmed several comedies including Bringing Up Baby,

His Girl Friday, I Was a Male War Bride and Monkey Business.

In Hawks's legendary gangster film Scarface from 1930,

George Raft plays a small-time gangster.

THE STORYTELLER

Walter Brennan performed in six Hawks films.

First in Barbary Coast

and later in Red River and Rio Bravo, among others.

LANDSCAPE

THE RACE

Hawks and his 23-year-old son, Greg.

A HELL OF A GOOD LIFE

19 CHAPTERS FROM THE MEMORIES OF A STORYTELLER

A FILM BY

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