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Hawks directed several films considered to be classics in a number of different genres:

• The Big Sleep - film noir
• Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday - screwball comedy film
• Scarface - gangster film
• Sergeant York - war filmA war film is any film dealing with war, usually focusing on naval, air, or land battle, but sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, training, or other related subjects. Many of the dramatic war films in the early 1940s in the U
• Gentlemen Prefer BlondesGentlemen Prefer Blondes is a novel written by Anita Loos that was published in 1925, a Broadway play produced in 1926, a Broadway musical produced in 1949, which Loos also wrote the book for, and two motion pictures. The silent movie was made in 1928, an - comedyComedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. It also means a performance that relies heavily on humor. The term originally comes from theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. The humor, once an incid
• Red River - western film
• Rio BravoRio Bravo ( 1959) is a western movie, directed by Howard Hawks. It stars John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, with Angie Dickinson and Walter Brennan. Sheriff John T. Chance (Wayne) has arrested a murderer, Joe Burdette ( Claude Akins), brother of po - western film

Hawks also producedA film producer is a type of producer who oversees the making of movies. In the early 20th century, the producer tended to wield ultimate creative control on a film project. However, with the collapse of Hollywood's studio system in the 1950s, control beg The Thing From Another WorldThe Thing From Another World is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of scientists at a remote Arctic outpost who fight an alien being. It stars Margaret Sheridan, Dewey Martin, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite and Douglas Spencer. James Arn, considered as one of the best science fictionScience fiction generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals. There are, perhaps, exceptions to (or at least, some very unusual examples of) films from the 1950s. It is also widely thought that he actually directed it, although the sole director's credit went to Christian Nyby.

Hawks was notorious for fabricating stories about the movie business, usually in a way which inflated his already considerable contributions to it. One such story has it that Hawks told Ernest Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of the worst thing that Hemingway had ever written, at which point Hemingway challenged him to make a movie out of To Have and Have Not. Hawks' film, which used a screenplay adapted by William Faulkner, may not be a classic, but it includes a number of memorable scenes, including Bacall's exercise in teaching Bogart how to whistle.