A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

* Fatah Hawks – The Fatah Hawks was an armed militia active mainly until the mid-90s.

Howard Winchester Hawks ( May 30, 1896December 26, 1977 ) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

Howard Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana on May 30, 1896.

He was the first-born child of Frank W. Hawks ( 1865 – 1950 ), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and his wife, Helen Howard ( 1872 – 1952 ), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).

Hawks was an average student at school and did not excel in sports, but by 1910 had discovered coaster racing, an early form of soapbox racing.

From 1910 to 1912 Hawks attended Pasadena High School, where he was again an average student.

Hawks finished his junior year of high school at Citrus Union High School in Glendora., and was then sent to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1913 to 1914.

In 1914 Hawks was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in mechanical engineering and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

As always, Hawks was an average student and college friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered him as spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be a voracious reader of popular American and English novels in college.

In 1923, Famous Players-Lasky president Jesse Lasky was looking for a new Production Editor in the Story department of his studio, and Thalberg suggested the Ivy-League Hawks.

* Mason, Francis K. Hawks Rising, the Story of No. 25 Squadron Royal Air Force.

" The Cathy Eckhardt Story " ( fourth season, broadcast November 9, 1960 ) clearly shows the year is 1870, but in " The Charlene Brenton Story " ( late third season, broadcast 8 June 1960 ) reference is made to Bill Hawks ' having read the novel Ben-Hur, which was not published until 1880.

In " The Major Adams Story " it is explained that Seth Adams had commanded a militia group ( apparently in Philadelphia ) and they enlisted en masse in the Union Army in 1861, that Bill Hawks was Sergeant to Major Adams and that Wooster was a late enlistment as a private ( in various episodes it's mentioned that their regiment was under Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant ).

However, a different story in " The Colter Craven Story " ( season 4 ), we are told that in 1860 Adams and Hawks were partners in a lumber enterprise in Galena, Illinois, and on the eve of the Civil War, Adams headed up the 2nd Illinois Volunteers-although without a bit of military knowledge-and was given guidance by old friend " Sam ", then a resigned former captain and a civilian but subsequently General of the Army U. S. Grant, who-encountering Adams again after the battle of Shiloh-gave him a battlefield promotion from Lieutenant to Major.

In the two-part " Major Adams Story " ( season one, episodes 30, 31 trans 23 and 30 April 1958 ), viewers learn of Major Adams ' Civil War background and his association in the Union Army with Wooster and Bill Hawks.

She has been a voice actor in My Pet Monster, Birdz, Committed, Little Bear, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Bob and Margaret, Rupert, Babar, Freaky Stories, Atomic Betty, The Care Bears, Roboroach, The Berenstain Bears, Free Willy, Knights of Zodiac, Anatole, Bad Dog, Monster by Mistake, The Neverending Story, Ned's Newt, Pippi Longstocking, Storm Hawks, Redwall, Bob & Doug, For Better or For Worse and Babar and the Adventures of Badou.

Well known cinematic movies, which deal with Khufu or at least have the Great Pyramid as a theme, are Howard Hawks ' Land of the Pharaohs from 1955, a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and Roland Emmerich ´ s Stargate from 1994, in which an extraterrestrial device is found near the pyramids.

It was at this time that Hawks first met Victor Fleming, allegedly when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident.

Hawks then had his first experience as a film director at the age of twenty-one when he and cinematographer Charles Rosher spent the day filming a tricky double exposure dream sequence with Pickford.

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits.

More of a " boy's club " than a production company, the four men gradually drifted apart and went their separate ways by 1923, at which time Hawks decided that he wanted to direct instead of produce.

During this time period Hawks first met Irving Thalberg, the frail and sickly vice-President in charge of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Eventually many of the young men in this group would become successful at MGM under Thalberg, and Hawks admired his intelligence and sense of story.

At the same time, Hawks was becoming friends with barn stormers and pioneer aviators at Rogers Airport in Los Angeles, getting to know men like Moye Stephens.

Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a year.

But in 1925 when Thalberg hesitated to follow through on his promise, Hawks broke his contract at MGM.

In October 1925 Sol Wurtzel, William Fox's studio superintendent at the Fox Film Corporation, invited Hawks to join his company with the promise of letting Hawks direct.

In 1926 Hawks was introduced to Athole Shearer by his friend Victor Fleming, who was dating Athole's sister Norma Shearer at the time.

In a later interview Hawks commented " It isn't my type of stuff, at least I got it over in a hurry.

The film was believed lost until the mid-1970s and was screened for the first time in the US at a Hawks retrospective in 1974.

Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin.

In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper.

Hawks died on December 26, 1977, aged 81 from complications of a fall several weeks earlier at his home in Palm Springs, California.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Howard Hawks has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.

Hawks at some point began to disapprove of the pair.

" After the public's response to Bacall's debut performance in To Have and Have Not at the urging of director Howard Hawks production partner Charles K. Feldman, scenes were re-written to heighten the ' insolent ' quality that had intrigued critics and audiences in that film.

Famous for hitting three free-throws after time had expired to put the Wollongong Hawks into the 2001 National Basketball League grand final.