Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (119 page)

Paid to Love
(Fox)

Producer: William Fox. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: William M. Conselman, Seton I. Miller; adaptation by
Benjamin Glazer, from an original story by Harry Carr. Cinematographer (tinted prints): L. William O’Connell. Editor: Ralph Dixon. Art director: William S. Darling. Assistant director: James Tinling. Titles: Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Length: 7 reels (6,888 feet), approximately 80 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, August–September 1926. Released July 23, 1927.

Cast: George O’Brien (Crown Prince Michael),
Virginia Valli (Gaby), J. Farrell MacDonald (Peter Roberts), Thomas Jefferson (King), William Powell (Prince Eric), Marta Sterling (maid), Hank Mann (servant).

A Girl in Every Port
(Fox)

Producer: William Fox. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller (and Reginald Morris, Marion Orth, Philip Klein, uncredited); adaptation by James Kevin McGuinness, from an original story by
Hawks. Cinematographers (tinted prints): L. William O’Connell, Rudolph Berquist. Editor: Ralph Dixon. Art director: William S. Darling. Costumes: Kathleen Dax. Assistant director: Sidney Lanfield. Titles: Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Length: 6 reels (5,500 feet), approximately 64 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, October–December 1927. Released February 26, 1928.

Cast: Victor McLaglen (Spike Madden), Robert
Armstrong (Bill [Salami]), Louise Brooks (Marie [Mlle. Godiva]), Myrna Loy (Jetta), Maria Casajuana (Chiquita), Gladys Brockwell (Madame Flore), Sally Rand (girl in Bombay), William Demarest (man in Bombay), Natalie Joyce, Dorothy Mathews, Elena Jurado (girls in Panama), Francis McDonald (gang leader), Phalba Morgan (Lena, girl in Holland), Felix Valle (Lena’s husband), Greta Yoltz (other girl
in Holland), Leila Hyams (sailor’s wife), Natalie Kingston (girl on South Seas island), Caryl Lincoln (girl from Liverpool), Michael Visaroff.

(Remade by British Lion and director Herbert Wilcox in Britain in 1952.)

Fazil
(Fox)

Producer: William Fox. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, adaptation by Philip Klein, from the play
L’Insoumise
, by Pierre Frondaie. Cinematographer:
L. William O’Connell. Editor: Ralph Dixon. Assistant director: James Tinling. Length: 8 reels (7,217 feet), approximately 75 minutes. With musical score and synchronized sound effects. Filmed in Hollywood, June–August 1927. Released June 4, 1928.

Cast: Charles Farrell (Prince Fazil), Greta Nissen (Fabienne), John Boles (John Clavering), Mae Busch (Helen Debreuze), Vadim Uraneff (Ahmed), Tyler
Brooks (Jacques Debreuze), Eddie Sturgis (Rice), Josephine Borio (Aicha), John T. Murray (gondolier), Erville Alderson (Imam Idris), Dale Fuller (Zouroya), Hank Mann (Ali).

The Air Circus
(Fox)

Producer: William Fox. Director: Howard Hawks; added dialogue sequences directed by Lewis Seiler. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, Norman Z. McLeod, from an original story by Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison
(and Hawks, uncredited). Dialogue: Hugh Herbert. Cinematographer: Dan Clark. Editor: Ralph Dixon. Dialogue director: Charles Judels. Assistant director: William Tummel. Titles: William Kernell. Running time: 88 minutes (8 reels, 7,702 feet). With musical score, synchronized sound effects, and 15 minutes of dialogue sequences. Filmed in Hollywood and Santa Monica, April– June 1928. Released September
30, 1928. (No prints known to exist.)

Cast: Arthur Lake (Speed Doolittle), David Rollins (Buddy Blake), Sue Carol (Sue Manning), Louise Dresser (Mrs. Blake), Charles Delaney (Charles Manning), Heinie Conklin (Jerry McSwiggen), Earl Robinson (Lt. Blake).

Trent’s Last Case
(Fox)

Producer: William Fox. Production supervisor: Bertram Millhauser. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Scott
Darling, adaptation by Beulah Marie Dix, from the novel by E. C. Bentley. Cinematographer: Harold Rosson. Assistant director: E. D. Leshin. Titles: Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Running time: 66 minutes (6 reels, 5,834 feet, with musical score and synchronized sound effects). Filmed in Hollywood, January–February 1929. Released in Great Britain September 23, 1929, never released in the United States.

Cast: Donald Crisp (Sigsbee Manderson), Raymond Griffith (Philip Trent), Raymond Hatton (Joshua Cupples), Marceline Day (Evelyn Manderson), Lawrence Gray (Jack Marlowe), Nicholas Soussanin (Martin), Anita Garvin (Ottilie Dunois), Edgar Kennedy (Inspector Murch).

The Dawn Patrol
(First National Pictures for Warner Bros.)

Producer: Robert North. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay:
Hawks, Dan Totheroh, Seton I. Miller, from the story “The Flight Commander,” by John Monk Saunders. Cinematographer: Ernest Haller. Editor: Ray Curtiss. Music: Leo F. Forbstein. Art Director: Jack Okey. Assistant director: Frank Shaw. Aerial adviser: Leo Nomis. Running time: 95 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, Newhall, Triumfo, February–May 1930. Released July 10, 1930.

Cast: Richard Barthelmess
(Dick Courtney), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Douglas Scott), Neil Hamilton (Major Brand), William Janney (Gordon Scott), James Finlayson (field sergeant), Clyde Cook (Bott), Gardner James (Ralph Hollister), Edmund Breon (Lt. Bathurst), Frank McHugh (Flaherty), Jack Ackroyd, Harry Allen (mechanics).

(Remade by Warner Bros. and director Edmund Goulding in 1938, incorporating aerial footage from Hawks’s
version, which was retitled
Flight Commander
for later television release.)

The Criminal Code
(Columbia)

Producer: Harry Cohn. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr., from the play by Martin Flavin. Cinematographers: James Wong Howe, Ted Tetzlaff. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Art director: Edward Jewell. Sound: Glen Rominger. Assistant director: David Selman. Running
time: 97 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, September–November 1930. Released January 3, 1931.

Cast: Walter Huston (Warden Brady), Phillips Holmes (Robert Graham), Constance Cummings (Mary Brady), Mary Doran (Gertrude Williams), DeWitt Jennings (Gleason), John Sheehan (McManus), Boris Karloff (Galloway), Otto Hoffman (Fales), Clark Marshall (Runch), Arthur Hoyt (Nettleford), Ethel Wales (Katie),
John St. Polis (Dr. Rinewulf), Paul Porcasi (Spelvin), Hugh Walker (Lew), Jack Vance (reporter), James Guilfoyle (Detective Doran), Lee Phelps (Detective Doherty), Nicholas Soussanin.

(Filmed simultaneously in a French-language version,
Criminel
, directed by Jack Forrester and starring Harry Bauer and Jean Servais, using montage and action sequences from Hawks’s version. Also filmed simultaneously
in a Spanish-language version.)

Scarface
(Caddo Company–Atlantic Pictures for United Artists)

Producer: Howard Hughes. Director: Howard Hawks. Codirector: Richard Rosson. Screen story: Ben Hecht. Continuity and dialogue: Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W. R. Burnett (and Fred Pasley, uncredited), from the novel by Armitage Trail. Cinematographers: Lee Garmes, L. W. O’Connell. Editor: Edward
Curtiss. Editorial advisor: Douglas Biggs. Music: Adolph Tandler, Gus Arnheim. Art director: Harry Oliver. Sound: William Snyder. Production manager: Charles Stallings. Running time: 90 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, June–August 1931. Released March 31, 1932 in New Orleans; May 19 in New York in cut version. Reissued in 1947 by Astor Films and in 1979 by Universal.

Cast: Paul Muni (Tony “Scarface”
Camonte), Ann Dvorak (Cesca), Karen Morley (Poppy), Osgood Perkins (Johnny Lovo), C. Henry Gordon (Ben Guarino), George Raft (Gino Rinaldi), Vince Barnett (Angelo), Boris Karloff (Gaffney), Purnell Pratt (publisher), Tully Marshall (managing editor), Edwin Maxwell (detective chief), Inez Palange (Mrs. Camonte), Harry J. Vejar (Louie Costillo), Henry Armetta (Pietro), Maurice Black (hood), Bert
Starkey (Epstein), Paul Fix (Gaffney hood), Hank Mann (worker), Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook (bootleggers), John Lee Mahin (MacArthur of the
Tribune
), Howard Hawks (man in hospital bed).

(Remade by Universal and director Brian De Palma in 1983.)

The Crowd Roars
(First National–Vitaphone for Warner Bros.)

Producer: Bryan Foy. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright,
Seton I. Miller, Niven Busch, from a story by Hawks (and, from
The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life
, by Kenyon Nicholson, uncredited). Cinematographer: Sid Hickox. Cameraman for background racing footage: Hans F. Koenekamp. Editors: John Stumar, Thomas Pratt. Music: Leo F. Forbstein. Art director: Jack Okey. Automotive advisor: Fred Jackman. Running time: 85 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, Ventura,
December 1931– February 1932. Released April 16, 1932.

Cast: James Cagney (Joe Greer), Joan Blondell (Anne), Eric Linden (Eddie Greer), Ann Dvorak (Lee Merrick), Guy Kibbee (Dad Greer), Frank McHugh (Spud Connors),
William Arnold (Bill), Leo Nomis (Jim), Charlotte Merriam (Mrs. Connors), Harry Hartz, Ralph Hepburn, Fred Guisso, Phil Pardee, Spider Matlock, Jack Brisko, Fred Frame, Leo Norris,
Dick Jones, Louis Meyer, Mel Kenaly (race drivers).

(Filmed simultaneously in a French-language version,
Le Foule Hurle
, directed by Jean Daumery and starring Jean Gabin. Remade by Warner Bros. and director Lloyd Bacon in 1939 as
Indianpolis Speedway
, incorporating racing footage from Hawks’s version.)

Tiger Shark
(First National–Vitaphone for Warner Bros.)

Producer: Bryan Foy. Director: Howard
Hawks. Associate director: Richard Rosson. Screenplay: Wells Root (and John Lee Mahin, uncredited), from the story “Tuna,” by Houston Branch. Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio. Cameraman for background fishing footage: Byron Haskin. Editor: Thomas Pratt. Music: Leo F. Forbstein. Art director: Jack Okey. Costumes: Orry-Kelly. Fishing consultant: Capt. Guy Silva. Running time: 80 minutes. Filmed in
Hollywood, San Diego, Catalina Island, April–June 1932, with background fishing footage filmed along the Mexican coast. Released September 22, 1932.

Cast: Edward G. Robinson (Capt. Miguel “Mike” Mascarenas), Richard Arlen (Pipes Boley), Zita Johann (Quita Silva), Leila Bennett (Muggsy), Vince Barnett (Fishbone), J. Carroll Naish (Tony), William Ricciardi (Manuel Silva).

The Prizefighter
and the Lady
(MGM)

Producer: W. S. Van Dyke. Directors: Van Dyke (and Howard Hawks, uncredited). Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, John Meehan, Frances Marion, from a story by Marion. Cinematographer: Lester White. Editor: Robert J. Kern. Running time: 102 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, fall 1932. Released May 1933.

Cast: Myrna Loy (Belle), Max Baer (Steve), Primo Carnera (Carnera), Jack Dempsey (promoter),
Walter Huston (professor), Otto Kruger (Willie Ryan), Vince Barnett (Bugsie), Robert McWade (adopted son), Muriel Evans (Linda), Jean Howard (cabaret girl).

(Hawks was the original director but was replaced by Van Dyke after a few days’ filming.)

Today We Live
(MGM)

Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Codirector: Richard Rosson. Story and dialogue: William Faulkner. Screenplay: Edith Fitzgerald,
Dwight Taylor, from Faulkner’s story “Turn About.” Cinematographer: Oliver T. Marsh. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Art director: Cedric Gibbons. Gowns: Adrian. Sound: Douglas Shearer. Running time: 110 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, December 1932–February 1933. Released March 3, 1933.

Cast: Joan Crawford (Diana), Gary Cooper (Richard Bogard), Robert Young (Claude), Franchot Tone (Ronnie), Roscoe Karns
(McGinnis), Louise Closser Hale (Applegate), Rollo Lloyd (Major), Hilda Vaughn (Eleanor).

Viva Villa!
(MGM)

Producer: David O. Selznick. Directors: Jack Conway (and Howard Hawks, un-credited). Screenplay: Ben Hecht, from the book
Viva Villa: A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa—Peon … Bandit … Soldier … Patriot
, by Edgcumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. Cinematographers: James Wong Howe (in
Mexico), Charles G. Clarke (in Hollywood). Editor: Robert Kern. Music: Herbert Stothart. Musical consultant: Juan Aguilar. Art director: Harry Oliver. Interior decoration: Edwin B. Willis. Costumes: Dolly Tree. Technical advisor: Carlos Novarro (Samaniegos). Technical associate: Matias Santoyo. Running time: 115 minutes. Filmed in Mexico (by Hawks), October–November 1933, in Hollywood (by Conway)
December 1933–January 1934. Released April 27, 1934.

Cast: Wallace Beery (Pancho Villa), Leo Carrillo (Sierra), Fay Wray (Teresa), Donald Cook (Don Felipe), Stuart Erwin (Johnny), Henry B. Walthall (Madero), Joseph Schildkraut (General Pascal), Katherine De Mille (Rosita), George E. Stone (Chavito), Philip Cooper (Villa, as boy), David Durant (bugle boy), Frank Puglia (Villa’s father), Francis
X. Bush-man Jr. (Calloway), Adrian Rosley, Henry Armetta (Mendoza brothers), Pedro Regas (staff), George Regas (aide), John Merkel (Pascal’s aide), Mischa Auer (military attaché), Arthur Treacher (English reporter), William Van Brincken (German reporter), André Cheron (French reporter), Michael Visaroff (Russian reporter), Charles Stevens, Steve Clemento, Carlos De Valdez (old men), Harry Cording
(majordomo), Sam Godfrey (prosecuting attorney), Nigel De Brulier (political judge), Charles Requa, Tom Ricketts (grandees), Clarence Hummel Wilson (jail official), James Martin (Mexican officer), Anita Gordiana (dancer), Francis McDonald (Villa’s man), Harry Semels (soldier), Julian Rivero (telegraph operator), Bob McKenzie (bartender), Dan Dix (drunkard), Paul Stanton (newspaperman), Belle Mitchell
(Spanish wife), John Davidson, Brandon Hurst, Leonard Moody (statesmen), Herbert Prior, Emile Chautard (generals), Shirley Chambers (wrong girl), Arthur Thalasso (butcher), Chris-Pin Martin, Nick De Ruiz (peons).

Twentieth Century
(Columbia)

Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, from their play, adapted from the play
The Napoleon of Broadway
, by Charles
Bruce Milholland. Cinematographer: Joseph August. Editor: Gene Havlick. Sound: Edward Bernds. Assistant director: Charles C. (Buddy) Coleman. Running time: 91 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, February–March 1934. Released May 3, 1934.