KISS OF DEATH (1947, USA, 99m, 12) ***½ Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller dist. Twentieth Century Fox; pr co. Twentieth Century Fox; d. Henry Hathaway; w. Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer (based on the novel ‘The Hoodlum’ by Eleazar Lipsky); pr. Fred Kohlmar; ph. Norbert Brodine (B&W | 1.37:1); m. David Buttolph; ed. J. Watson Webb Jr.; ad….
Tag: Henry Hathaway
Film Review – TRUE GRIT (1969)
True Grit (1969; USA; Technicolor; 128m) **** d. Henry Hathaway; w. Marguerite Roberts; ph. Lucien Ballard; m. Elmer Bernstein. Cast: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Glen Campbell, Strother Martin, Jeremy Slate, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey, Donald Woods, Alfred Ryder, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield, John Doucette, Edith Atwater. A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal…
Film Review – THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (1965)
Sons of Katie Elder, The (1965; USA; Technicolor; 122m) ***½ d. Henry Hathaway; w. William H. Wright, Allan Weiss, Harry Essex, Talbot Jennings; ph. Lucien Ballard; m. Elmer Bernstein. Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Earl Holliman, Michael Anderson Jr., Martha Hyer, Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, George Kennedy, James Gregory, Paul Fix, Jeremy Slate, John Litel,…
Film Review – CIRCUS WORLD (1964)
Circus World (1964; USA; Technicolor; 135m) *** d. Henry Hathaway; w. Ben Hecht, Julian Halevy, James Edward Grant, Philip Yordan, Nicholas Ray; ph. Jack Hildyard; m. Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Wanda Rotha, Kay Walsh. A circus owner is beset by disasters as he attempts…
Film Review – NORTH TO ALASKA (1960)
North to Alaska (1960; USA; DeLuxe; 122m) *** d. Henry Hathaway; w. John Lee Mahin, Martin Rackin, Claude Binyon; ph. Leon Shamroy; m. Lionel Newman. Cast: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Fabian, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine, Mickey Shaughnessy, Karl Swenson, Joe Sawyer, Kathleen Freeman, John Qualen, Stanley Adams, Frank Faylen, Kermit Maynard, Roy Jenson, Alan Carney. When…
Film Review – CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948; USA; B&W; 112m) ***½ d. Henry Hathaway; w. Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, Quentin Reynolds; ph. Joseph MacDonald; m. Alfred Newman. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, E.G. Marshall, Kasia Orzazewski, Betty Garde, Moroni Olsen, John McIntire, Paul Harvey, Joanne De Bergh, Howard Smith, Michael Chapin,…