theauteurs.com - 1/12/2009
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Howard Hawks, morbid and somber. Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for showing a rare double-feature of rare Hawks in their current retrospective of the director. Tiger Shark (1932) and The Road to Glory (1936), paired together for who knows what reason—rarity, perhaps? Or maybe ...
seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com - 1/12/2009
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Welcome to the next two weeks here at
Only The Cinema, which will be focused exclusively on
the early (as in, pre- Bringing Up Baby ) films of director Howard Hawks. This arbitrary cutoff point has been established in order to encourage people to ...
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Early Howard Hawks Blog-a-Thon
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Early Howard Hawks Blog-a-Thon
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... Greenbriar Picture Show Come and Get It at DVD Talk Come and Get It at Self-Styled Siren The Criminal Code at Apocalypse Later The Crowd Roars at Colet and Company The Crowd Roars at Movie Classics A Girl in Every Port at Senses of Cinema Scarface at Senses of Cinema Scarface at Twenty Four Frames Scarface at Only The Cinema Tiger Shark & The Road To Glory at Auteurs Notebook Today We Live at ...
Tiger Shark (1932)
Self-Styled Siren —
For the Early Hawks Blogathon (Jan. 12-23) running at Ed Howard's most excellent Only the Cinema blog, the Siren decided to go with Tiger Shark, a movie she saw last year, took notes on and never wrote up. It's a pre-Code melodrama made at First National, the Warner Brothers forerunner. The Siren will be honest and say she found it dull in spots, but every time she considered changing the channel, Hawks reeled her back in. Ultimately it is more interesting as a way station in his development as an artist than as a movie, but Tiger Shark ...
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