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Howard Hawks has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rio Bravo.
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Sissi: The Young Empress
1956
Drama · Comedy

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995
Comedy · Drama

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2005
Drama · Comedy

The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
Comedy · Romance

Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Comedy · Drama

EverAfter
1998
Drama · Romance

Where the Heart Is
2000
Comedy · Drama

Irma la Douce
1963
Romance · Comedy

His Girl Friday
1940 · Movie · Director
Top 8%MGM+ · Included

El Dorado
1966 · Movie · Director
Top 12%MGM+ · Included

Ball of Fire
1941 · Movie · Director
Top 13%Prime Video · Included

Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · Movie · Director
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

Sergeant York
1941 · Movie · Director
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Hatari!
1962 · Movie · Director
Top 34%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

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.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

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.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie

Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly

A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli

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.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Dir. Christian Nyby · With Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin