Which Howard Hawks film made overlapping dialogue one of his trademarks?

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Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo. — Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (right) directing (from left to right) John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in *Rio Bravo* (1959).

The film that cemented overlapping dialogue as one of Howard Hawks's trademarks was the 1934 screwball comedy Twentieth Century.1

While this technique became a signature element of his style—appearing in later works such as The Thing from Another World (1951)—it was most famously utilized in the lightning-fast, groundbreaking repartee of his 1940 film His Girl Friday.123