Amazon.com Review
It's hard to overrate Howard Hawks, the extraordinary film director whose credits include the classics
Bringing Up Baby,
His Girl Friday,
To Have and Have Not,
The Big Sleep,
Red River,
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and
Rio Bravo. Hawks directed Cary Grant in most of his best comedies, and John Wayne in many of his best Westerns. He was instrumental in furthering the careers of Angie Dickinson, James Caan, Jane Russell, and Marilyn Monroe. Fortunately, the critical writing on Hawks is excellent and this book collects the best of it. With essays by Graham Greene, James Agee, Andre Bazin, Jaques Rivette, Robin Wood, Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, Hawks's screenwriter Leigh Brackett, Stanley Cavell, and Laura Mulvey, this will surely be the single most important book on Hawks for many years to come.
Review
"An excellent collection of essays, reviews and interviews." --
The Observer
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.