Match made in Hollywood heaven: Leigh Brackett and Howard Hawks
How a brilliant young woman writer got into Hollywood and regaled us with films like The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo - and even Star Wars!
The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo will always be among my top ten films of all times. Everything clicks. A brilliant outcome from a collaboration of first-rate pros led by Howard Hawks. The scripts were penned by Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman. As I did some research for a post about Rio Bravo, I discovered more and more about what must have been a very sp…
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