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John Monk Saunders
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John Monk Saunders

American screenwriter and film director
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  • filming of Rio Bravo
    Howard Hawks
    / Early life and work

    …based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I. The aerial footage (much of it shot from a plane piloted by Hawks)…

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    …based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I. The aerial footage (much of it shot from a plane piloted by Hawks)…

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