USA,
1926
Shown in 1972
CREDITS
- dir
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Howard Hawks
- scr
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Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton
- cam
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Joseph August
- cast
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George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Andre de Beranger, Phyllis Haver, Heine Conklin, William Austin
- prod co
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20th Century-Fox
- source
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Museum of Modern Art
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COMMENTS
Part of a tribute to Howard Hawks. Howard Hawks appeared in person.
OTHER
A rarity for Hawks fans, and a surprisingly still-funny comedy about the battle between the sexes, with some particularly apt applications to today’s liberated womanhood. Since this entire day is in tribute to Howard Hawks, it seemed most appropriate to show something even rarer than Scarface (to those disappointed gangster-film devotees, that film is being prevented from exhibition for reasons beyond the comprehension of civilized man), and to prove that Hawks’s sense of humor is indigenous to his personality by reviving an early work which has just recently escaped from the anonymity of studio vaults.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #208
Before the showing of Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest at the 40th SFIFF, Bay Area editor Walter Murch (who selected the film to screen in the Indelible Images series), passed out fortune cookies to the crowd with Bresson’s musings on making films.
