{"id":5727,"date":"2019-11-27T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:38:32","slug":"john-wayne-henry-hathaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostlywesterns.com\/john-wayne-henry-hathaway\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne Movies Directed by Henry Hathaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Hathaway learnt his craft during the silent era, working as an assistant director on the 1925 version of \u201cBen-Hur<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Turning to directing in the early 1930s he went on to work mainly within the Western and gangster genres throughout most of his career, although his first box-office hit was with \u201cThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer<\/a>\u201d in 1935, an adventure film set in colonial India in the late 19th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

One of Hathaway\u2019s most notable gangster films, \u201cKiss of Death<\/a>\u201d, starred a young Richard Widmark as psychotic killer Tommy Udo who famously pushes an old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs.<\/p>\n

He tended to do his best work in Westerns though, working with Widmark again in \u201cGarden of Evil<\/a>\u201d, and helming other cowboy titles such as \u201cFrom Hell to Texas<\/a>\u201d, \u201cNevada Smith<\/a>\u201d and \u201c5 Card Stud<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also directed the majority of the segments in the star-studded Cinerama epic \u201cHow the West Was Won<\/a>\u201d. In amongst all this Hathaway found time to work with John Wayne on six feature films, the majority of them typically Westerns. This article will consider these movies in order of preference.<\/p>\n

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