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What's your favorite film by Henry Hathaway?

Now and Forever
0 (0%)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
2 (13.3%)
Peter Ibbetson
0 (0%)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
0 (0%)
Go West Young Man
0 (0%)
Souls at Sea
0 (0%)
Spawn of the North
0 (0%)
The Real Glory
0 (0%)
Johnny Apollo
0 (0%)
Brigham Young
0 (0%)
The Shepherd of the Hills
0 (0%)
Sundown
0 (0%)
China Girl
1 (6.7%)
A Lady Takes a Chance
0 (0%)
Wing and a Prayer
0 (0%)
The House on 92nd Street
0 (0%)
The Dark Corner
0 (0%)
13 Rue Madeleine
0 (0%)
Kiss of Death
1 (6.7%)
Call Northside 777
0 (0%)
Down to the Sea in Ships
0 (0%)
The Black Rose
0 (0%)
You're in the Navy Now
0 (0%)
Fourteen Hours
0 (0%)
Rawhide
1 (6.7%)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1 (6.7%)
Diplomatic Courier
0 (0%)
Niagara
0 (0%)
White Witch Doctor
0 (0%)
Prince Valiant
0 (0%)
Garden of Evil
0 (0%)
The Racers
0 (0%)
23 Paces to Baker Street
0 (0%)
Legend of the Lost
0 (0%)
From Hell to Texas
0 (0%)
Seven Thieves
0 (0%)
North to Alaska
0 (0%)
How the West Was Won
0 (0%)
Circus World
0 (0%)
The Sons of Katie Elder
0 (0%)
Nevada Smith
1 (6.7%)
5 Card Stud
0 (0%)
True Grit
3 (20%)
Raid on Rommel
0 (0%)
Shoot Out
0 (0%)
other (specify)
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
4 (26.7%)
don't like any
1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 14

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Hathaway, Henry
« on: October 20, 2010, 12:11:14 PM »


Whew, that's a lot of movies.
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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 12:12:28 PM »
1. Kiss of Death
2. 14 Hours
3. Peter Ibbetson

4. Niagara
5. The Dark Corner

6. Call Northside 777
7. The House on 92nd Street
8. Johnny Apollo


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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2010, 12:19:02 PM »
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer over Call Northside 777.

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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 12:21:07 PM »
Good
1) The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel
Bad
2) How The West Was Won

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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 12:23:06 PM »
How the West Was Won is the only one I've seen.

Must have been 10 or 11 when I saw (haven't seen it since) - and I remember liking it ok. The music has colored all my notions of a "Western" ever since  :D : How the West Was Won Theme (Alfred Newman & Ken Darby)

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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 01:51:51 PM »
1. China Girl
2. True Grit
3. Sundown
4. How The West Was Won
5. Niagara

Need to see the noirs.
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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 04:09:33 PM »
Nevada Smith
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« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2012, 04:27:58 PM »
1. True Grit
2. 13 Rue Madeleine
3. You're in the Navy Now
4. How the West Was Won
5. Call Northside 777
6. Wing and a Prayer
7. Souls at Sea
8. 23 Paces to Baker Street
9. Nevada Smith
10. Down to the Sea in Ships
11. From Hell to Texas
12. Fourteen Hours

13. North to Alaska
14. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
15. 5 Card Stud
16. Home in Indiana
17. Nob Hill
18. The House on 92nd Street
19. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
20. O. Henry's Full House (Segment "The Clarion Call")
21. The Shepherd of the Hills
22. The Sons of Katie Elder
23. Circus World
24. Diplomatic Courier
25. The Dark Corner
26. Rawhide
27. Johnny Apollo
28. Spawn of the North
29. The Real Glory
30. Go West Young Man
31. Airport
32. Seven Thieves
33. The Desert Fox
34. Kiss of Death

35. Garden of Evil
36. Brigham Young
37. Peter Ibbetson
38. Shoot Out
39. Niagara
40. Legend of the Lost
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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2013, 11:56:32 PM »
You're in the Navy Now
* * *

Allegedly Gary Cooper's worst film, but I found it to be rather enjoyable. He's put in charge of a submarine chaser with an experimental engine powered on steam. (It's nicknamed the USS Teakettle.) It's a Hogan's Heroes romp of a comedy, featuring swift direction by the usually lead-footed Hathaway and a bouncy performance by Cooper, who seems to have briefly regained his 1930s comedy persona again.


5 Card Stud
* * 1/2

Western mystery starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. I wish the two had switched parts if only to give Mitchum the larger amount of screen time. Both have to deal with Roddy McDowall, who's just horrible. His body language and voice are like something from another planet. He looks uncomfortable in spurs. Hathaway brings a good air of Noir mystery to the script (the train steam at night creates great shadows) but he's a director that could always be counted on for a howler or two even when the film is working. The film isn't "How Did This Get Made" bad, but it wouldn't be out of place on that podcast.


Seven Thieves
* * 1/2

Heist film headlined by Edward G. Robinson, though the real stars are Rod Steiger trying to be both method and fun and Joan Collins trying to be taken seriously as an actress while performing long, pointless 1950s stripteases. Eli Wallach's here too. I like him and I'm a sucker for a good, long heist. In the end I wanted more Robinson with better dialogue and less of everything else.

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Re: Director's Best: Henry Hathaway
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2014, 11:03:05 PM »
RE-WATCH MARATHON


Call Northside 777 (1948)
"That's the trouble with being innocent. You don't know what really happened."

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I guess in hindsight this true life based crime story is fairly by the numbers, but I love watching Jimmy Stewart do his thing and he's incredibly good here. The film starts with a lot of realistic-looking footage. Reminded me of Phenix City Story. Once we get to Stewart, the realism gets wedged into a standard Hollywood star vehicle, but I liked a lot of the performances from some familiar faces. There was the occasional bit of good dialogue, plus Stewart's way of delivering a line dramatic, wry and folksy all at once. The lie detector scene and a later sappy bit with the mom of a convicted murderer are fairly dull, but this was a very satisfying time.

REASON FOR RE-WATCH: Noir titles blend together more than any other genre. Plus, nearly any film with Jimmy Stewart is good for another look.


This is one of the more unexceptional movies with the good fortune to have Stewart in the lead. It's a very formula "wrongly accused" Noir, with the opening done almost exclusively through narration and a Naked City style of interacting with people who make up different aspects of the big city of Chicago, from immigrants, bartenders, and working class up to expensive lawyers, newspaper owners and politicians. I though for sure MartinTeller's review from 10 years ago would grade down for two for his least favorite tropes - not linked out of respect - but he's overall generous towards it.

I think anyone would give this film a lot of goodwill because of the generous participation of Mr. Stewart. It's mostly a paycheck part with little to do but preside over scenes with authority. Stewart still goes the extra mile, strengthening his disbelief over the condemned cop killer's innocence into a nice subplot. Plus there are the pleasant domestic scenes with his wife and his general folksy manner when interviewing people.

The film tries to be all cutting edge CSI in regards to lie detectors and blowing up photographs to find minute details. It finds its strongest footing during a brief period when there's a discussion of the black eye it will cause to the city if the man is proven innocent. There's some consideration that people's trust in their law enforcers is perhaps more important than admitting to a mistake. A debate that's still going on today.
Rating: * * *, a slight downgrade. Comfort food Noir. Not among the best of the genre.