# The best Howard Hawks films

Westerns, screwball, noir, gangsters and pilots: the best of Howard Hawks, ordered from Gold Derby, Flickchart and Ranker, with Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep and His Girl Friday on top.

- 1364 votes · 15 items
- May 28, 2023 · matilda_reelfan
- https://even.best/en/l/3274/the-best-howard-hawks-films

## Top 15

1. **Rio Bravo (1959)** (138 · ▲150 ▼12) — John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson hold a jail against a gang.
2. **The Big Sleep (1946)** (103 · ▲111 ▼8) — Bogart as Philip Marlowe, with Lauren Bacall.
3. **Bringing Up Baby (1938)** (81 · ▲93 ▼12) — Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and a leopard.
4. **Scarface (1932)** (71 · ▲77 ▼6) — Paul Muni as a Chicago gangster.
5. **His Girl Friday (1940)** (68 · ▲88 ▼20) — Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell at rapid-fire speed.
6. **Red River (1948)** (62 · ▲79 ▼17) — John Wayne and Montgomery Clift on a cattle drive.
7. **Only Angels Have Wings (1939)** (60 · ▲77 ▼17) — Cary Grant runs a mail-flying outfit in the Andes.
8. **To Have and Have Not (1944)** (60 · ▲75 ▼15) — Bogart and Bacall meet on screen, from Hemingway.
9. **Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)** (59 · ▲69 ▼10) — Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sail to Paris.
10. **Ball of Fire (1941)** (49 · ▲64 ▼15) — Barbara Stanwyck among seven professors writing an encyclopedia.
11. **Twentieth Century (1934)** (48 · ▲66 ▼18) — John Barrymore and Carole Lombard aboard a train.
12. **Sergeant York (1941)** (43 · ▲60 ▼17) — Gary Cooper won the Oscar as the World War I hero.
13. **Hatari! (1962)** (35 · ▲55 ▼20) — John Wayne catching animals in Tanganyika.
14. **Monkey Business (1952)** (24 · ▲44 ▼20) — Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and a youth formula.
15. **El Dorado (1966)** (15 · ▲32 ▼17) — John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in a loose Rio Bravo variation.

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