[SeanJoyce]

Top-5 director for me. Two of the guys above him, Walter Hill and John Carpenter (especially the latter), wear his influence on their sleeves. I thought it was awesome that they both appeared in the supplements on the Rio Bravo disc.

Really hard to rank his work since of a lot of it is so precious to me, but I will say that Rio Bravo is easily my #1, my favorite western of all time and it would have to rank in any "top 10 coolest movies" list. It is THE "hangout" movie, and despite its length you never feel it...you could chill with those characters all afternoon.

I agree with an above user that it's badly in need of another disc. Bringing Up Baby, Sergeant York and The Big Sky are also major omissions on HD. And while I have yet to see it, I've been waiting for Air Force for quite a while.

I've always loved the story where Hawks and Hemingway were chatting and they made a bet that Hawks couldn't turn his worst book, "To Have and Have Not", into a good movie. While it's in many ways a pretty blatant attempt to replicate the magic of Casablanca, Hawks delivered another classic that gave us one of Hollywood's greatest romances. I wish he and Bogart made 1 more film together.

And oh yeah, I'm in the "The Thing from Another World is a Hawks film" camp.