Howard Hawks
The Plot Thickens
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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For our first bonus episode, Peter Bogdanovich interviews director Howard Hawks in the Palm Springs desert in April 1972. Hawks tells Peter how he got started in showbiz and provides insight into many of his best movies, including Rio Bravo, The Dawn Patrol, His Girl Friday, Hatari! and Scarface.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Ben Manko, it's host of the plot thickens and Turner Classic movies. |
| 0:04.2 | We wanted to bring you some of our favorite moments from Peter Bogdanovich's archive. |
| 0:08.5 | If you've been listening to the plot thickens, you know that Peter started recording interviews |
| 0:12.4 | with some of classic Hollywood's greatest directors in the early 1960s. |
| 0:17.0 | These are really the conversations where Peter learned his craft, learned how to be a movie |
| 0:21.3 | director. |
| 0:22.3 | The first one from April of 1972 is with Howard Hawkes, the director of Red River and |
| 0:27.3 | Rio Bravo, among so many others. |
| 0:30.0 | At the time of this Hawkes conversation, Peter was 32 years old, he'd already directed |
| 0:34.4 | the last picture show. |
| 0:36.0 | His next movie, What's Up Doc, was a modern screw ball comedy, drawing much of its inspiration |
| 0:41.6 | from screw ball comedies from Hollywood's Golden Age, like his girl Friday and bringing |
| 0:46.1 | up baby. |
| 0:47.4 | Films directed by the master of the screw ball comedy, Howard Hawkes. |
| 0:51.6 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:57.3 | This is the desert outside of Palm Springs, California. |
| 1:19.8 | It's about two hours drive from Los Angeles, Howard Hawkes lives here in Palm Springs |
| 1:24.5 | when he's not making pictures. |
| 1:26.6 | You can hear him in the background, he's riding the dunes with his son Greg. |
| 1:33.5 | Here he comes now. |
| 1:37.5 | Hi Peter. |
| 1:42.7 | Hi. |
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