(Where engines melt and young blood boils! Newly re-master...)
Where engines melt and young blood boils! Newly re-mastered in HD! Meet the speed breed, the young daredevils of the racing world who battle sudden death for forever glory. Produced and directed by the great Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, Red River) and starring James Caan (Rollerball), Red Line 7000 was filmed against the backdrop of the world s most famous speedways, and the film roars with all the pulse-pounding, heart-stopping excitement of professional racing and the drivers who live one dare beyond danger s edge. Overnight fame, overnight fortune and any-night girls, the men of Banjo Baker s racing team press em all to the limit in... Red Line 7000. Beautifully shot by Milton R. Krasner (Boy on a Dolphin) with a screenplay by George Kirgo (Spinout) from a story by Hawks. The supporting cast includes Charlene Holt (El Dorado), Marianna Hill (High Plains Drifter) and Star Trek legend George Takei.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
- Trailers
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Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns, and maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the '70s.
Background
Howard Winchester Hawks was born on May 30, 1896 in Goshen, Indiana, United States. He was one of three children of Helen Howard and Frank Winchester Hawks, an executive in the paper mill industry. Because of his mother's poor health, the family moved to Pasadena, California, in 1906, where his father became vice-president of a hotel company.
Education
Hawks was educated at Pasadena High School (1908-1913); Throop College of Technology (now California Institute of Technology) where he studied woodworking and metalworking (1913-1914); Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire (1914-1916); and Cornell University (1916-1917).
He graduated from Cornell with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering.
Career
During his summer vacation from Cornell in 1916, Hawks worked at the Famous Players-Lasky Studio (then the production division of Paramount) in the property department. In 1917 he was working on the set of The Little Princess, starring Mary Pickford and ZaSu Pitts, when the director didn't come in to work. Hawks directed a few scenes so well that Pickford promoted him to assistant director.
Hawks left Hollywood later that summer to enter the Army Air Corps as a pilot in World War I. After his discharge in 1920, he worked in an aircraft factory, designing and flying planes. He also designed, built, and raced cars, a hobby he had begun in high school. When he later became a director, Hawks would often race cars and perform car stunts in his movies.
Hawks returned to Hollywood and to Paramount, working first as a film cutter, then assistant director, story editor, and casting director. In 1922 he wrote and directed two comedy shorts, which he financed himself. In 1923 he became producer of the feature film Quicksands, which he had also written.
He left Paramount in 1924 and went to MGM, hoping to get a chance to direct. In 1925 he sold a story, "The Road to Glory, " to Fox Studios on the condition that he be able to direct it. Thus began one of the longest and most versatile careers in American film. Hawks worked under contract at Fox until 1929. Thereafter he worked as an independent producer and sold his projects to every major Hollywood studio.
Altogether, he directed forty-three films in forty-four years. He also was an uncredited contributor to countless directing and scripting projects. Hawks made films in almost every American genre, and each could well serve as one of the best examples of its type. He worked with equal ease in gangster movies, action dramas, screwball comedies, private-eye thrillers, military action, musicals, science fiction, and Westerns.
Hawks maintained a high degree of control over production and the script, imparting all of Hawks's films with a distinctive signature. Common themes revolve around the camaraderie between adversaries in difficult situations. Whether they are gunfighters, aviators, hunters, detectives, newspapermen, or scientists, Hawks's characters attempt to uphold a rigorously defined code of conduct. A typical plot is the struggle of a flawed character to prove himself worthy of respect, by overcoming tendencies to disloyalty, cowardice, physical disability, or immaturity. Hawks's heroes respect their adversaries for upholding the same code of conduct while functioning under different circumstances. The heroes and adversaries are never threatened by each other but welcome the competition in order to surpass themselves. Hawks received his only Academy Award nomination as best director in 1941 for Sergeant York; he lost to John Ford for How Green Was My Valley. His actor, actresses, and technical crews, however, took many nominations and awards.
Hawks died at his home in Palm Springs, California, from injuries sustained in a fall. His body was cremated, and ashes was scattered in desert near Calimesa, California.
Despite his collaborations and associations with politically outspoken stars, such as the famously right-wing John Wayne or the left-wing Humphrey Bogart, Hawks himself remained resolutely apolitical throughout his life.
Views
Despite popularizing the Hawksian woman archetype, a portrayal of women in more strong, less effeminate roles, Hawks was not sympathetic to feminism.
Quotations:
"There's action only if there's danger. "
"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. "
"I'm a storyteller--that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"
"When you find out a thing that goes pretty well, you might as well do it again. "
"I never made a message picture, and I hope I never do. "
"I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot 20 times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore. "
"If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance. "
"I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town and make an entirely different picture. "
Membership
Hawks was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Checkers Motorcycle Club.
Personality
Hawks's greatness was his ability to make characters come alive on the screen. To do this, he allowed his actors considerable latitude with the script, letting them develop the characters they portrayed. He was also a master of point-of-view, knowledgeable about which camera perspective would precisely convey the necessary psychological and moral information.
Quotes from others about the person
Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks: "Far from being the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down. "
Interests
Along with his love of flying machines, Hawks also had a passion for cars and motorcycles. He built the race car that won the 1936 Indianapolis 500, as well as enjoyed riding motorcycles with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. His other hobbies included carpentry and silversmithing.
Artists
Of all the famous actresses he directed, Hawks considered Frances Farmer the best he ever worked with. He was also very fond of Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard and Rosalind Russell.
Sport & Clubs
Hawks' favourite sport activities were golf, tennis, sailing, and horse racing.
Connections
Hawks married Athole Shearer on May 30, 1928; they had two children and Hawks adopted Shearer's child from a previous marriage. Hawks and Shearer divorced in 1940. On December 10, 1941, Hawks married Nancy Raye Gross; they had one child before divorcing in 1948. His last marriage was to the former New York model Dee Hartford (born Donnan Higgins) on February 20, 1953. They had one child and divorced in 1959.