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Post by topbilled on Aug 1, 2024 16:43:55 GMT
This month I wanted to put a bit of focus on Henry Hathaway. Mainly because he worked with all the top male stars of the golden age, along with several notable female stars...and I actually know very little about him!
To start things off, here are three films in which Hathaway directs Gary Cooper...
PETER IBBETSON (1935)
SOULS AT SEA (1937)
THE REAL GLORY (1939)
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Post by christine on Aug 2, 2024 3:46:56 GMT
Henry Hathaway had a lengthy career as a director, from the early 1930's to the early 1970's. He was mostly known for his Westerns.
He directed Dean Martin along with Robert Mitchum and Inger Stevens in the Western/Mystery 5 CARD STUD 1968.
Hathaway also directed Dean Martin along with John Wayne, George Kennedy and Martha Hyer in THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER 1965.
 
TCM will be showing THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER as part of the Summer Under The Stars festival during prime time when John Wayne is this Saturday's Summer Star.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 2, 2024 15:23:04 GMT
Thanks Christine. It's been a long time since I've watched 5 CARD STUD. It used to turn up on the Starz/Encore Westerns platform.
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Post by christine on Aug 4, 2024 3:58:26 GMT
Henry Hathaway directed John Wayne in NORTH TO ALASKA 1960.
and TRUE GRIT 1969.
 According to Ben Mankiewicz, Henry Hathaway directed John Wayne in six films.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Aug 5, 2024 23:26:50 GMT
TCM just showed Hathaway's Legend of the Lost (1957) for John Wayne's SUTS day, co-starring Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi. Ben didn't say it was a premier, but he did say it was something most people hadn't seen. (I saw it a few years ago, I think on Screenpix, so I'm wishing now that I'd posted some kind of heads-up about it.) It was a step away from westerns for Wayne into the adventure genre, detailing a hunt for a treasure city in the desert led by Brazzi, using his father's account as a roadmap. It looked like a million bucks; put cinematographer Jack Cardiff in the Libyan desert and you're going to get some gorgeous shots. It played out a little like Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with one of the men (Brazzi) being driven a little crazy by the treasure when they find it. You'd think Loren and Wayne wouldn't click, and at first they didn't because she'd taken a shine to Brazzi, but by the end their shared fate made for a nice bonding. Sophia was still a little iffy with her English in 1957, as was Brazzi to be honest, so there were some botched line readings, and some of the preparatory stuff before they hit the desert was a little tedious, but overall I really enjoyed the opportunity to see it again. It seems Hathaway himself wasn't all that thrilled with the script and realized too late that he wasn't going to get a real bad guy out of Brazzi because it just wasn't in his nature. I'm not sure what the deal was with the Wayne estate, but some of his Batjac movies, like this and Hondo (1953) and, for a while, The High and the Mighty (1954), were in a kind of strange limbo for years, so I hope Legend of the Lost has come out of the shadows. Often TCM contracts for multiple broadcasts, so it may show up again and if it does, this time I'll send out an alarm.  |
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Post by cmovieviewer on Aug 6, 2024 15:33:07 GMT
Legend of the Lost has been shown multiple times before on TCM, but those showings were all in 2004, 2005, and 2008, so it has been 16 years since the last time! TCM has a nice video with the amazing widescreen color cinematography of the desert scenes - that is reason enough to check it out. Legend of the Lost is available on WatchTCM through August 17, so those fortunate enough to have the service have another opportunity to see it.
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Post by topbilled on Aug 8, 2024 15:31:50 GMT
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Post by I Love Melvin on Aug 8, 2024 16:22:30 GMT
There was nobody quite like the young Henry Fonda for tugging on the heartstrings and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a good example. And now that it's been restored we can get a better sense of what a great use of early Technicolor it was, including that impressive outdoor landscape photography, giving Hathaway such a great backdrop to work with. It's also interesting to see how early on Beulah Bondi settled into those motherly/grandmotherly roles which practically defined her career. It's been a while, so now I'm anxious to see it again. P.S. Sorry the discussion got moved from Gary Cooper to John Wayne. Didn't really mean for that to happen, but you know how discussions can veer. I should have taken the opportunity to say how much I love Peter Ibbetson, a fantastical oddity but also one of the most romantic movies ever made.  |
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Post by topbilled on Aug 15, 2024 7:16:26 GMT
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 15, 2024 9:46:51 GMT
A few of my favorite Henry Hathaway movies include:
"The Dark Corner" (1946)
"Fourteen Hours" (1951)
and the very underrated, "Seven Thieves" (1960)
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Post by topbilled on Aug 17, 2024 2:56:32 GMT
A few of my favorite Henry Hathaway movies include:
"The Dark Corner" (1946)
"Fourteen Hours" (1951)
and the very underrated, "Seven Thieves" (1960) |
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 17, 2024 8:15:19 GMT
A few of my favorite Henry Hathaway movies include:
"The Dark Corner" (1946)
"Fourteen Hours" (1951)
and the very underrated, "Seven Thieves" (1960) |
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Post by topbilled on Aug 21, 2024 14:46:01 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Aug 29, 2024 22:37:59 GMT
On this day I had planned to feature Henry Hathaway directing John Wayne...
But you guys beat me to it a few weeks ago by mentioning LEGEND OF THE LOST. (And that's great!)
I might also add:
THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS (1941)
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