The Plot Thickens: I’m Still Peter Bogdanovich - BONUS Episode 1: Howard Hawks

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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[@hawkspeak8592]

these were great, I wish we had access to all of these interviews. Peter was a great historian by having these interviews. I've read all his books but nothing like hearing it from the mouths of the artists. We'll never have film makers like these again.

[@samuelsetenyi1428]

Thank you for sharing this gem of a conversation!

[@sebeckley]

What an absolutely amazing and resonant voice Hawks had.

[@michaelhuck]

Howard Hawks was a director who hade some failures like Land of the Pharaos or Mens favorite Sport but even his "failures" were entertaining, great movies and every minute watching them is fun and suspense. His "failures" are better than many sucesses of other director-producers.

[@ananatali1]

more of this, please!

[@mindycheyanne4521]

Really look forward to each of these podcasts. I find them fascinating. It is a great to have such in depth interviews, to take the time to let conversation play out. I know there is more "bonus" material out there. Hope there is also more to come. Thank you, Ben.

[@TheGregoryGardner]

This series is a fantastic resource. Thank you!

[@DekeSimmons]

Howard Hawks , Jaws came out, "you got to live it, before you film a story." I believe that; Red River, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, trilogy are the best films about U. S. Cavalry. Truly a great Director !

[@1dbanner]

Although Peter B has directed several great films, his real life's work is his film scholarship. Who The Devil Made It is essential.

[@filmnobelpreis]

And What's Up Doc is pretty much a conservation of Bringing Up Baby.

[@chitown1782]

R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich!

[@fionafinch348]

The poem that Mr. Hawks remembered so many years later was beautiful, so I looked it up and found it was written not by Kipling, but by Bartholomew Dowling.

[@filmnobelpreis]

Always the director, Hawks even stages Peter and himself as you can hear.

[@jasonraschen1109]

That was cool. Thank you.

[@philiphalpenny9761]

Surprised that Hawks picked Scarface as his favourite among his many classics. Muni's crass overplaying blights the film for me. Who can ever tire of the wonderful verbal banter between Bogart and Bacall in Hawk's pictures? Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday , Ball Of Fire and all the rest are always a joy to revisit because of the time Hawks gives his characters to interact. Plots are usually a distraction to the delicious chemistry between the players...

[@lynnturman8157]

I think almost every actor was guilty of "crass overplaying" in early talkies. It took them a while to discern the difference between acting in front of a camera & acting on a stage.

[@DekeSimmons]

Then they made the film when Alfonso was still doing his thing in Chicago !

[@filmnobelpreis]

Yeah. To Have and Have Not, Only Angels Have Wings, and Rio Bravo express his cinematic vision much more profoundly. I guess he just liked making Scarface against all the opposing forces.

[@harrietcooper9076]

Luv it!

[@lawrenceclemens8494]

Great..... just wish you hD asked about writing & making The Thing From Another World.

[@sigmapath1935]

Great show! I can't wait for season 2!

[@p_nk7279]

Howard Hawks sounds like Walter Pidgeon.

[@fallofmanbrand]

great video bro

[@christylove4834]

M

[@angelarogers448]

books too... ❤❤❤❤❤