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American film director, producer and screenwriter (1896–1977)
Also known as: Howard Winchester Hawks, Говард Хоукс, هاورد هوكس, 하워드 혹스, ハワード・ホークス, 霍華·霍克斯
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Leigh Brackett1915–1978ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHard-boiled screenplays and westerns sharing the brisk dialogue, professional camaraderie and laconic heroes of Rio Lobo and The Big Sleep (AI reason)
Ben Hecht1894–1964ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFast-talking screenwriting, newspaper comedy and gangster drama in the same rapid, overlapping-dialogue style (AI reason)
Raymond Chandler1888–1959ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetWisecracking hard-boiled crime fiction whose tone defined The Big Sleep (AI reason)
William Faulkner1897–1962ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetScreenwriting work on adaptations such as To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep alongside fiction of honor and endurance (AI reason)
- François Truffaut1932–1984ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Book-length director interviews and auteur criticism in the same vein as Hawks on Hawks (AI reason)
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Ernest Hemingway1899–1961ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetTerse prose about stoic, competent men under pressure, matching the ethos of adventure films like To Have and Have Not (AI reason)
Peter Bogdanovich1939–2022ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetConversational interview books with classic Hollywood directors about craft and storytelling (AI reason)
Joseph McBride1947–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFilm history and director interview writing focused on classical Hollywood craftsmanship and westerns (AI reason)
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLean, dialogue-driven crime writing with tough, professional protagonists (AI reason)
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