Call Northside 777 (1948), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Peter Ibbetson (1935), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), North to Alaska (1960), 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Heritage of the Desert (1939), Garden of Evil (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Henry Hathaway movies.
Storyline: A Chicago newsman (James Stewart) digs up the story of a scrubwoman's son (Richard Conte) framed for murder.
Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, mystery, investigation, journalism, chicago, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John, the eldest, is a well-known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get their ranch back from the town's gunsmith who won it from their father in a card game, after which he was murdered. Troubles come, however, just because they carry the Elder name.
Plot Keywords: western, revenge, family drama, gunfight, sheriff, texas, brothers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, fantasy, classic, 1930s, black-and-white, paramount pictures ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 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. Still, Matt does not quite trust Howitt.....—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: western, drama, classic, black and white, adaptation, novel adaptation, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancée back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy. Frankie is a con man trying to steal the partners' gold claim.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, western, gold rush, romance, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Famed American playwright Phillip Hannon is in London making revisions to his play currently running in the West End. He is doing this mundane work rather than write a new play since he has retreated from life following the recent and permanent loss of his sight. That retreat from life includes breaking off his engagement to his former secretary, Jean Lennox, who still loves him. One evening at his local pub, he overhears a conversation between a man and a woman that he knows involves criminal activity, what he surmises to be the kidnapping plot of a child in exactly one week's time. The local police patronizingly dismiss his report as the overactive imagination of a blind writer. With Jean and his faithful manservant Bob Matthews by his side - the former with some reluctance on Phil's part - Phil goes on a search to uncover the plot using what little pieces of information he has at hand, which includes the man's name being Evans, the woman, who is involved under duress, working as a nanny for a family whose head is formally a lady, that lady having attended a concert that evening, the family living along a certain bus route, and the nanny herself wearing an expensive perfume well beyond her means. His physical disability is an obvious disadvantage. But what may be working to Phil's advantage is his keen sense of dialogue and its subtext in deciphering the conversation, using his other senses which people with sight take for granted, and people, including the criminals, underestimating him because he's blind.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, crime, film noir, london, kidnapping, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, classic film, 1930s, american film, black and white, paramount pictures, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the Indian-infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the lady's husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised $2000 each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and/or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.—Ronnie L. Hyde
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, mexico, desert, betrayal, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying on atom-bomb secrets; conveniently, Dietrich is assigned to the New York spy ring stealing these secrets. Can he track down the mysterious "Christopher" before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: spy, world war ii, film noir, fbi, nazis, new york, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Monte Carlo, Theo Wilkins (Edward G. Robinson) recruits his young protégé Paul Mason (Rod Steiger), just released from prison, to help him rob the famous casino of four million dollars. The plan is straightforward. On the night of the Governor's Ball, Theo will create a distraction in the casino by having one of the team collapse requiring urgent medical attention. During that time, Paul and another member of the crew will get the money from the vault. When the ambulance arrives, the money will leave with the sick man. The plan is a good one, but not everyone will survive the robbery, and no one will get rich from it.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, heist, mystery, drama, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Bonnard arrives in Timbuktu in search of a guide to escort him into the Sahara desert. American Joe January takes the job despite misgivings about Bonnard's plans. Dita, a prostitute who has been deeply moved by what appears to be Bonnard's spiritual nature, follows the two men into the desert. Eventually the trio arrives in the ruins of a lost city, where Bonnard hopes to find the treasure his father sought years earlier before disappearing. But what Bonnard finds alters him in unexpected ways, with tragic results.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, drama, romance, desert, expedition, treasure hunt ...
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