This is an excerpt from Richard Schickel’s marvelous documentary series, The Men Who Made The Movies. Howard Hawks directed a score of classic films:Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday and two he discusses in the clip, To Have To Have NotandThe Big Sleep. Hawks was not always a reliable storyteller in real life but he was always an interesting one. I’m uncertain, however, if he was ever stung by a dead bee..
