Henry Hathaway

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American film director (1898-1985) who worked steadily for nearly fifty years. He broke in at Paramount directing a string of Zane Grey westerns with Randolph Scott in the early 1930s, then graduated to prestige pictures like The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). Later landmarks include Kiss of Death (1947), Niagara (1953), and True Grit (1969), which won John Wayne his Oscar.

Directed

6.31933·1h 2mPD

Western, Action

One of the Zane Grey westerns Henry Hathaway directed for Paramount in the early 1930s, back when Randolph Scott was still playing B-leads in buckskin. Scott is Dale, a mountain man who overhears saloonkeeper Beasley's scheme to grab a rancher's land and kidnap his daughter — so Dale kidnaps her first, dragging the enraged but safe heiress (Verna Hillie) into the hills while he untangles the plot. Harry Carey steals scenes as a philosophical crook. Handsomely shot around Big Bear and considerably better made than the poverty-row oaters of the same year. The film entered the public domain after its copyright was not renewed.

Western · Action

Man of the Forest

1933 - Western