Direction: Henry Hathaway

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Henry Hathaway. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Kiss of Death

1947 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Widmark · Brian Donlevy · Coleen Gray

Plot Nick Bianco is a small-time hoodlum and thief who is shot and arrested after he and three others hold up an exclusive jewelry store. The District Attorney, Louis D'Angelo offers...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Call Northside 777

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker

Plot 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...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

True Grit

1969 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Glen Campbell · Kim Darby · Jeremy Slate

Plot The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal,...

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

7.1

255 votes

Niagara

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea

Plot George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

How the West Was Won

1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Plot The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal,...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing

Plot Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Martha Hyer · Michael Anderson Jr.

Plot A ranch-owner's four sons vow to avenge their father's death.

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Peter Ibbetson

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Ann Harding · Ida Lupino · John Halliday

Plot This romantic period drama was acclaimed by surrealists when it was released in 1935. Cooper stars in the titular role, an architect who travels to meet with the Duke of...

7.0

684 votes

7.0

684 votes

The Dark Corner

1946 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Lucille Ball · Clifton Webb · William Bendix · Mark Stevens

Plot Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is...

6.9

656 votes

6.9

656 votes

Rawhide

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Susan Hayward · Hugh Marlowe · Edgar Buchanan

Plot At an Arizona stagecoach stop, an attendant and a stranded female passenger with her baby are kept hostages by a band of escaped criminals. Their goal is to rob the...

6.9

581 votes

6.9

581 votes

O. Henry's Full House

1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster

Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger

Plot This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop...

6.8

477 votes

6.8

477 votes

Fourteen Hours (14 Hours)

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Paul Douglas · Richard Basehart · Barbara Bel Geddes · Debra Paget

Plot 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...

6.8

253 votes

6.8

253 votes

From Hell to Texas

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Don Murray · Diane Varsi · Chill Wills · Dennis Hopper

Plot A spare, almost austere western, From Hell to Texas stars Don Murray as a carefree cowpoke. Accidentally killing the son of a powerful land baron (R. G. Armstrong), Murray runs...

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

The Real Glory

1939 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · David Niven · Broderick Crawford · Reginald Owen

Plot In 1906 the American army pulls out of Manila leaving a handful of officers to try and get the Philippines Constabulary into shape to protect the native population from ruthless...

6.8

863 votes

6.8

863 votes

Johnny Apollo

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Lloyd Nolan

Plot The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.

6.8

221 votes

6.8

221 votes

23 Paces to Baker Street

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Van Johnson · Vera Miles · Cecil Parker · Patricia Laffan

Plot Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a suspicious conversation, that leads him into a desperate race, to find the accomplices. When he gets no help...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone

Plot The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full...

6.7

456 votes

6.7

456 votes

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Betty Field · Harry Carey · Beulah Bondi

Plot Young Matt Masters, 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...

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke · Jessica Tandy · Luther Adler

Plot James Mason is outstanding in the role of Field Marshal Rommel, the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps, which dominated North Africa during the early years of World War II, later...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes