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Henry Hathaway Filmography
Complete filmography of Henry Hathaway: 44 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Shoot Out | 1,971 | Western | 6.4 | 83 | English | Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 7 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter. |
| Raid on Rommel | 1,971 | War, Action | 5.8 | 52 | English | Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. |
| True Grit | 1,969 | Western | 7.3 | 837 | English | The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done. |
| 5 Card Stud | 1,968 | Western, Mystery | 6.2 | 85 | English | The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one. |
| Nevada Smith | 1,966 | Western | 6.7 | 184 | English | Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct. |
| The Sons of Katie Elder | 1,965 | Western | 7 | 301 | English | The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town. |
| Circus World | 1,964 | Drama | 6.2 | 82 | English | Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother. |
| North to Alaska | 1,960 | Western, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 128 | English | After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France. |
| Seven Thieves | 1,960 | Crime, Thriller | 6.6 | 36 | English | A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo. |
| Woman Obsessed | 1,959 | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 11 | English | After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier. |
| From Hell to Texas | 1,958 | Western | 5.9 | 32 | English | The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him. |
| Legend of the Lost | 1,957 | Adventure | 6.1 | 65 | English | American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure. |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | 1,956 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 | 84 | English | Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks. |
| Garden of Evil | 1,954 | Western | 6.1 | 84 | English | A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches. |
| Prince Valiant | 1,954 | Adventure, Action, Romance | 6 | 65 | English | A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne. |
| Niagara | 1,953 | Thriller, Crime | 6.8 | 422 | English | Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn. |
| Diplomatic Courier | 1,952 | Mystery, Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 22 | English | During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact turns up dead, and the message is nowhere to be found. With no clear suspect in sight, Kells must sort through his uncertain relationships with two women, while sidestepping the pitfalls of subterfuge, sabotage and spies in his search for the documents. |
| The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | 1,951 | Action, Drama, History, War | 6.7 | 111 | English | The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler. |
| Rawhide | 1,951 | Western | 6.7 | 57 | English | At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts. |
| Fourteen Hours | 1,951 | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 48 | English | A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it. |
| You're in the Navy Now | 1,951 | Comedy, War | 4.4 | 10 | English | When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines. |
| The Black Rose | 1,950 | War, Adventure, History | 6.6 | 23 | English | In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan. |
| Down to the Sea in Ships | 1,949 | Drama, Adventure, Action | 7.1 | 18 | English | During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson. |
| Call Northside 777 | 1,948 | Crime, Drama | 6.7 | 171 | English | In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong. |
| Kiss of Death | 1,947 | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 | 167 | English | An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge. |
| 13 Rue Madeleine | 1,947 | Thriller, War | 6 | 38 | English | Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion. |
| The Dark Corner | 1,946 | Crime, Drama | 6.6 | 67 | English | Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers. |
| The House on 92nd Street | 1,945 | Thriller | 6.5 | 45 | English | The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States. |
| Wing and a Prayer | 1,944 | War, Action, Drama | 6.5 | 12 | English | An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. |
| Home in Indiana | 1,944 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 5.5 | 10 | English | 'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses. |
| China Girl | 1,942 | Romance, Drama, War | 5.3 | 14 | English | Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors. |
| The Shepherd of the Hills | 1,941 | Drama, Western | 6.5 | 56 | English | Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence. |
| Sundown | 1,941 | War, Drama, Adventure | 5.4 | 24 | English | Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans. |
| Johnny Apollo | 1,940 | Drama, Crime, Romance | 6.9 | 20 | English | Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father. |
| Brigham Young | 1,940 | History, Romance, Western | 4.4 | 15 | English | Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way. |
| The Real Glory | 1,939 | Drama, War | 6.3 | 21 | English | Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers. |
| Spawn of the North | 1,938 | Action, Romance, Adventure | 5.7 | 11 | English | Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes. |
| Souls at Sea | 1,937 | Adventure | 6.3 | 12 | English | Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842. |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | 1,936 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 32 | English | A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans. |
| Go West Young Man | 1,936 | Comedy | 5.3 | 15 | English | Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film. |
| Peter Ibbetson | 1,935 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.9 | 60 | English | When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance. |
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1,935 | Adventure, Drama, War | 6.6 | 51 | English | In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. Surly McGregor and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone, the commanding officer’s inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father, Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy. |
| Now and Forever | 1,934 | Drama | 6.7 | 20 | English | Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life. |
| To the Last Man | 1,933 | Romance, Western | 5.7 | 20 | English | In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry. |
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